Jokes from my favourite Christmas Present

The best Christmas present I received a few weeks ago was a book called ‘The Biggest Ever Tim Vine Joke Book”.  If you’ve ever seen him live you’ll know what I mean when I say that you hate yourself for laughing at his jokes.  But, this clip on YouTube has a 98% approval rating, so […]

Robert Maxwell – the epitome of gluttony

Robert Maxwell (1923-1991) was a Czechoslovakian-born media proprietor and UK Member of Parliament.  He was the publisher of a wide range of newspapers, including the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, The People, Daily Record and the New York Daily News, but he will always be remembered as the man who stole hundreds of millions of Pounds […]

Virtual Reality and other Digital Marketing Trends for 2016

I bought my father a Virtual Reality headset for Christmas.  Foolishly, I forgot to remove the price tag.  “He would have though they cost about €300 if you hadn’t left the €39 price tag on”, my brother laughed.  I won’t make that mistake again.  The headset caused so many rows between the nieces and nephews […]

What type of person is most apt to become an Entrepreneur?

Entrepreneurship is on the rise with many business graduates opting to start their own business over corporate life in an established firm. Personally, I believe graduates would be much better off getting at least 5 years experience in a corporate environment where they can make all the mistakes they like at someone else’s expense.  Evenings […]

Conor Foley of WorldSpreads and Incomplete Media Coverage

I have decided to take this unusual step of posting this statement online on this domain name in order to give a more balanced and accurate perspective of newspaper articles about me which appear at the top of Google Search when people search for my name or the company name WorldSpreads. Background I was the […]

Something special about Edward Hopper and Nighthawks

If you ever get an opportunity to visit an Edward Hopper exhibition I would highly recommend you grasp it with both hands.  I was very fortunate to see a wide range of his most popular paintings at an exhibition in London in 2004. The painting, Nighthawks, is one of his best and is a 1942 oil […]

New Year’s Day

This is as good a day as any to start a new blog. This is a Test Post. Stay tuned for more. Conor Foley