Pat Phelan: Telecomms DisruptorSubverting telecomms from the edge of industry

Tonight we won Cork emerging company of the year presented by The Cork Chamber.
It was an excellent event and huge congrats to Chairman Joe Gantly and his team for running an event of this size, nearly 1000 people sat down for dinner.
Digicel Chairman Denis O Brien was the guest of honor and made an excellent [...]

We got some nice news a few weeks ago from the Cork Chamber Of Commerce.
Cubic Telecom has been short listed in the emerging company category.
We have done our initial interview where we were quizzed by the chamber executive team on our business model and the execution of it.
The grand announcement is next Friday night and [...]

In case you missed it, things are pretty tight in the housing market. A great idea has emerged from a Cork based company.
Easy House Exchange

Its an incredibly simple concept and its free for the moment, register you house, see a house you like, agree the difference and you are good to go.
I had a [...]

People might think I am making this up but the highlight of our lunch in Captain America’s today was the balloon guy.

The rest was a joke
Me to server, whats the soup? “ehhh, uhhhmm, I don’t know” whilst she rolled her lip piercing with her tongue
Coke arrived instead of diet coke.
Soup was mushroom, pretty good actually [...]

Lunch in Soho Cork was a complete disaster today.
I should start a review site for Sunday lunches in Cork and the shocking experience it generally is.
I was persuaded not to write about a semi suicidal Polish girl who served us up Seafood linguine last Sunday in Cafe Bar Deli with processed crab sticks as the [...]

I sat next to the developer of the Cork scheme CastleLake Tadhg O Brien on my flight home yesterday, He has just launched an innovative new scheme with this development and I wanted to ask him how it had gone.
He told me it is flying, deals are being signed every day, I think its an [...]