Today marks two years since I was diagnosed with stomach cancer, an important landmark as any cancer patient will know. That day seems an eternity ago. In front of me as I write on a cold London morning is a bottle of Mount Difficulty Pinot Noir from New Zealand which I bought (and, I have to say,
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Memories of Danny
May 25 was the first anniversary of the tragic death of CTC-ARI Airports General Manager Danny Galvin in a road accident in Cyprus – and a year on family and friends gathered in Cork to mark the occasion. The event included a church service, a golf outing (where the top prize was the inaugural award
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Bionic Bull back on his feet
Meet travel retail’s first bionic Bull. Stuart Bull, long-time International Consultant for Mars International Travel Retail, is now back on his feet after what he describes as a ‘bi-lateral knee replacement’. In confectionery terms, both the Bull knees, worn out after his younger-day exertions as a marathon runner (at which he was highly adept) and
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The bizarre new world of tobacco ‘display’
‘Tobacco sold here’ says the sign. But otherwise you wouldn’t know it. The only other evidence that one can purchase cigarettes is the wording alongside – “It is illegal to sell tobacco products to anyone under the age of 18.” Welcome to the bizarre new world of tobacco retailing in the UK High Street, where