Irelands "brand"

bobblepuzzle

I have just seen footage of the St Patricks day parade in NYC, the largest in the world... attracts 2 - 3 million people annually, also looked at footage from other cities and it becomes clear... oh my god, we have such a great brand to sell abroad... yet here we are hopelessly in debt! What other countries wouldn't give to be in our position (with the brand that is) How have we gone so terribly wrong??

phasers

What on earth do you mean? Should we sell chunks of turf to pay off our debt? Or tacky farmer caps

Screaminmidget

phasers wrote: »

What on earth do you mean? Should we sell chunks of turf to pay off our debt? Or tacky farmer caps

Potatoes....

galwayrush

No good, it only works once a year..... honest.

ejmaztec

phasers wrote: »

What on earth do you mean? Should we sell chunks of turf to pay off our debt? Or tacky farmer caps

Jackie Healy-Rae's an old sod in a tacky farmer cap, but we'd have to pay to have him re-cycled.

Agricola

Yeah we have a great brand. We need to capitalize on this paddy whackery as much as possible in the coming years. That should net us around .00037 of the national debt. Cha-Ching!

bobblepuzzle

phasers wrote: »

What on earth do you mean? Should we sell chunks of turf to pay off our debt? Or tacky farmer caps

I mean there should be money comming out of our feckin ears... it's not only St Patricks day, the Irish are very recieved in most countries particularly the States...

phasers

How does that equal earning power though? Americans won't just post over money because they like Ireland... what are you offering?

Agricola

bobblepuzzle wrote: »

I mean there should be money comming out of our feckin ears... it's not only St Patricks day, the Irish are very recieved in most countries particularly the States...

So people from the US and elsewhere should donate money to us because....we're Irish?

What exactly would we do to profit from this brand?

dissed doc

phasers wrote: »

What on earth do you mean? Should we sell chunks of turf to pay off our debt? Or tacky farmer caps

Cuckoo clocks

Biersteins

Clogs


whats the problem?

bobblepuzzle

Agricola wrote: »

So people from the US and elsewhere should donate money to us because....we're Irish?

What exactly would we do to profit from this brand?

Who said anything about donating... I'm talking about investment :rolleyes:

the groutch

bobblepuzzle wrote: »

I have just seen footage of the St Patricks day parade in NYC, the largest in the world... attracts 2 - 3 million people annually, also looked at footage from other cities and it becomes clear... oh my god, we have such a great brand to sell abroad... yet here we are hopelessly in debt! What other countries wouldn't give to be in our position (with the brand that is) How have we gone so terribly wrong??

by repeatedly voting Fianna Fail into power

strokemyclover

Ireland's brand has great value for sure but like it's yellow pack counterpart, you don't mind the price but you wouldn't want to be seen in public carrying a bag with the brand name on it.

Agricola

bobblepuzzle wrote: »

Who said anything about donating... I'm talking about investment :rolleyes:

Oh yeah investing. In property maybe?!

Investing in what? Your plan for Ireland's recovery is like my mother's apple-tart. Half-baked.

phasers

bobblepuzzle wrote: »

Who said anything about donating... I'm talking about investment :rolleyes:

What sort of investment? people invest in things in order to get a return. What would the return be? Where would the money go?

Saila

I heard radio programme today, and some american was on it saying "you need to be more possitive, you're so negative over there now"

we need a kick in the arse to be fair, and DO things instead of moaning about it, I hope he didnt go on boards or he'd have just condemmed us there and then

he was dead right though, there is a time for wallowing and a time for doing, this is the time for doing

Cookie_Monster

why exactly would a few parades encourage anybody to invest here?

Patrick's day does nothing for Ireland's brand, yes its a great celebration and makes people around the world notice us for a while but certainly doesn't have any impact on our corporate or business brand and would not encourage anyone to invest anything here just because of it.

Tourism is about the only thing that will benefit from it, market it as a great festival (as is already done) and you'll have a good week for the tourism and hospitality industry but that's about it.

bobblepuzzle

phasers wrote: »

What sort of investment? people invest in things in order to get a return. What would the return be? Where would the money go?

There are many kinds of investments, IT being the obvious but pretty used up by now... how about green energy, agriculture, commerce, R&D etc. There is much untapped potential in Ireland

strokemyclover

strokemyclover wrote: »

Ireland's brand has great value for sure but like it's yellow pack counterpart, you don't mind the price but you wouldn't want to be seen in public carrying a bag with the brand name on it.

i dunno. i find it amazing the amount who go in for this silly holiday. in a way marketing this paddy whackery paraphernalia would be almost as dirty as prostitution but we are desperate and need the money and it might just be one industry that could earn revenue.

deathrider

Saila wrote: »

there is a time for wallowing and a time for doing, this is the time for doing

Ah, man. It's Paddy's Day... Can we not "Do" tomorrow instead?

Firefox11

Agricola wrote: »

Oh yeah investing. In property maybe?!

Investing in what? Your plan for Ireland's recovery is like my mother's apple-tart. Half-baked.

I'm sorry to hear that because my mum bakes the best apple tart in the world!! Well worth investing in!!

bobblepuzzle

bobblepuzzle wrote: »

There are many kinds of investments, IT being the obvious but pretty used up by now... how about green energy, agriculture, commerce, R&D etc. There is much untapped potential in Ireland

Id agree with that too but like the Tesco slogan, 'Every little helps'

phasers

bobblepuzzle wrote: »

There are many kinds of investments, IT being the obvious but pretty used up by now... how about green energy, agriculture, commerce, R&D etc. There is much untapped potential in Ireland

A multinational sets up shop wherever it can operate cheapest. Hence why so many have been moving to Poland recently...

The US has no interest in investing in our farms or our energy. What would be in it for them?

bobblepuzzle

phasers wrote: »

A multinational sets up shop wherever it can operate cheapest. Hence why so many have been moving to Poland recently...

The US has no interest in investing in our farms or our energy. What would be in it for them?

erm an Irish market to profit from maybe??? Airtricity aren't doing to bad, there is money to made, but they are on a small scale right now...

Agricola

phasers wrote: »

A multinational sets up shop wherever it can operate cheapest. Hence why so many have been moving to Poland recently...

The US has no interest in investing in our farms or our energy. What would be in it for them?

Ya see Phasers, whats happened here is the OP has gotten caught up in the fervor of the day and thinks that Ireland is a mini Japan, brimming with technological innovation.
Where the Irish innovated was in making money from selling houses to each other.

bobblepuzzle

Agricola wrote: »

Ya see Phasers, whats happened here is the OP has gotten caught up in the fervor of the day and thinks that Ireland is a mini Japan, brimming with technological innovation.
Where the Irish innovated was in making money from selling houses to each other.

Please stop bringing up the property thing... that was stupidity for well over a decade... this thread is about the way forward

gargleblaster

1. be irish
2. ?
3. profit!

Gummy Panda

We sell to them "how to speak like a paddy"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQOt8eOPr4k

Turtyturd

We could trademark Patrick's Day parades and then sell them to every city individually for a set amount....if this goes ahead I want ten percent of the takings.

senordingdong

Turtyturd wrote: »

We could trademark Patrick's Day parades and then sell them to every city individually for a set amount....if this goes ahead I want ten percent of the takings.

I'm sure FF would have found a way to tax them alright.