When it comes to concise, colourful and descriptive use of the English language, no-one can live with the Aussies. Not only did they come up with the decade’s great acronym to save us all from having to keep writing out ‘liquids, aerosols and gels’ – now known as LAGs for short (and probably forever) – but 

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What do your shoes say about you? Quite a lot, we reckon. Take the example above. The wearer is quite clearly a champion of style, yet a man of substance; cerebral yet all-action; and definitely a risk-taker. How else would we describe him? He’s a champion of owned retail over the concessionaire model; an outspoken

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The Moodie Report celebrated the launch of ‘The World Rovers’ – our tale of the phenomenal Irish influence over the duty free industry’s first 60 years -with a particularly tricky competition. Readers were asked to identify the people and locations in three photographs – one was the original Aer Rianta ‘Trinity’ in Dubai (a Kevin

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It was that moment that hardened Middle East Gala Dinner attendees fear. The local Belly Dancer is swaying and gyrating as the audience claps in time. She begins to swirl her way into the audience as she looks for a partner to take on stage. Everywhere men’s heads are looking down into their laps, keen

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The Moodie Report’s friendly rival DFNI’s biggest breaking news story of the year turned out to be about itself. The long-standing title, it revealed exclusively, is to be sold to Frontier owner Metropolis. “We expect to conclude our discussions within two weeks,” said Christopher Fordham, a Director at Euromoney, the parent of DFNI publisher Raven

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Next week The Moodie Report launches The World Rovers, a book dedicated to the extraordinary story of the Irish in duty free – from Dr Brendan O’Regan who started it all in Shannon Airport, Ireland in 1947 to Colm McLoughlin, John Sutcliffe and many other keepers of the flame today. The book celebrates that influence

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