Bloomfield or Bloomberg?
Is concern about the Victims Commission overshadowing everything else in the First and Deputy First Minister's Office? Making his presentation to a Stormont Committee this afternoon, the Junior Minister Gerry Kelly talked about the VIPs due to attend next month's US Investment Conference, among whom he listed the New York Mayor, "Michael Bloomfield".
The DUP's Jim Wells put him right. The Mayor of New York is Michael Bloomberg. The former Victims Commissioner is Sir Kenneth Bloomfield.
Also giving evidence, the other Junior Minister Jeffrey Donaldson spelled out the names of companies attending the conference. He joked about whether HP might be representing the world famous sauce - but it was evident that he knew he was talking about the multi national computer firm Hewlett Packard.
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Hewlett Packard already have a large operation in Leixlip, Co. Kildare (I would recommend a visit, and a look round the centuries-old church in the middle of the town).
Do you think they could end up joining forces with Shannon Airport in being rather annoyed about us taking their jobs?
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The gaffes serve to illustrate that Northern Ireland, due to all the "troubles" over the past 40 years or so, is far behind recognizing what is going on in the WORLD. Somehow, you are going to have to sprint to catch up and stop navel-gazing! That it the reality of the 21st century.
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The gaffes also show the nervousness associated with immaturity in high office while trying to normalise the atmosphere and forget the outstanding matters once raised as problems before getting into office.
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