How we tricked Bertie

We really are successful in leading our bovine journalists aka press-release-regurgitators down the garden path on the issue of Irish Internet usage.
Even funnier: We got Bertie to make a complete fool of himself by claiming in the Dail in November 2003 that Ireland's home Internet usage was only second to Sweden and Denmark. Of course nobody of our regurgitator league even noticed.
Feel the urge to recommend this idiot test to somebody?


How we tricked the Dail Joint Committee on Communication about the Irish Broadband situation.
What should we have said when the Committee asked for a presentation on the broadband situation? Surely we could not have told them, that over the last few years we had allowed Eircom to totally mess up the whole of Ireland's Internet development. How would that have made us look?
So we cooked up a neat little power-point presentation where we squarely mislead the TD's and Senators of the Committee about the main reason of Ireland's dismal performance with broadband.
We led them astray with charts and more charts which had nothing to do with the issue – we simply nicked them from the spatial strategy papers of the Gov – mixed in with some absolutely outrageous success stories: How Ireland was ahead of the growth curve with regards to broadband uptake and how Ireland would be catching up with the other countries ( assuming these countries would stop developing; ha, ha!)

Of course, this Eircomtribunal guy had to try to spoil the party by pointing out the "flaws" of our presentation to the Committee members. We promised him an answer – but he can wait a long time for that ;)

Download the pdf document he sent to the Joint Committee on Communications here.

Download our own presentation to the Committee here.


Below a map from the eircomtribunal document illustrating Ireland's embarrassing place on the map of Internet penetration.



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