Lawson Mulvihill

My Nana’s Voice

Everyone knows I’m from Foynes, it’s something I’m especially proud of, so when I heard through the Mount Trenchard group that Alicia McMahon had written a book, I hopped on over to Amazon to indulge myself. Oh my God, you have to read her book (her second), My Nana’s Voice.

In it, she gives a deeply moving and wide-ranging view of life in a small river-port town in Ireland, and her personal…

Just a Tuesday in September

Margaret Mulvihill, October 14, 2016

I have never written anything about Nine Eleven. In the beginning it was too raw to talk about it, and too raw to think about it. For at least the first few years after it happened, those of us who lost friends there could barely speak of it. To write about it would have felt like a betrayal. Although fifteen years have passed since the East Coast of the…

Can I Ever Go Home Again?

Margaret Mulvihill, October 9, 2016

It’s a blustery day in the Washington DC suburbs. I’m hearing the wind pick up outside, with a scattering of rain pecking at the windows. It’s one of those mid-October days with a bite to it, yesterday was summer and tomorrow will be winter. As I listen to the sounds of the weather outside, my mind is drifting back in memory toward the year 1960, toward the…

my vote will count. I endorse Hillary Clinton to become the First Madam President of the USA

By Margaret Mulvihill

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Anyone who follows me knows how I feel about Hillary Clinton. Former First Lady, former Secretary of State. Having followed her career for the past thirty years or so, I don’t like her. I don’t trust her. I don’t like her husband, former President Bill Clinton. I don’t trust him. I am not a registered Democrat.

The Bernie Sanders campaign was a…

Margaret Mulvihill   September 6, 2016

A dear friend has shared the news that he is terminally ill. Emotions are swirling, tormented thoughts about his pain and his suffering, and his family and friends’ collective loss, looming over every syllable expressed.

So typical of this friend, he is questioning not life, and not death, but the afterlife. He has generously invited his family and friends…

By Margaret Mulvihill

Monday, August 22, 2016

  Donald J. Trump, Republican Party Presidential Nominee can be described in one hyphenated word. Un-American.  Donald Trump is Un-American.

The hatred he has brought to the forefront of the presidential campaign of 2016 is without parallel. We can try to excuse Trump by saying that he is suffering from a mental illness, some people say maybe even…

Two Sides of the Same Coin Hillary Clinton v. Donald Trump

Two Sides of the Same Coin

  As of this morning, opening day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Donald Trump is leading Hillary Clinton by five points in the latest poll. If that factoid doesn’t scare you, there is something seriously wrong with you. The likelihood that a little fascist troll could become the President of the United States of America is scary. And yet, what…

The United States of Hate

The United States of Hate

By Margaret Mulvihill

Monday, July 11, 2016

In this current atmosphere of roiling hatred, the presidential campaign of 2016 has given us a choice. We can elect as President of the United States of America, the presumptive Republican nominee Donald J. Trump, a sociopathic narcissist, or the presumptive Democrat nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton, a sociopathic narcissist.

Do…

How Relevant is Traditional PR?

  pub·lic re·la·tions

noun

the professional maintenance of a favorable public image by a company or other organization or a famous person.

the state of the relationship between the public and a company or other organization or a famous person.

What is public relations today? It’s still media management, by and large, although I like the explanation that “it’s the state of the relationship…

Flint Michigan: Checking In

  Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

Is PR still playing a role in managing the crisis in Flint, Michigan, and if it is, how effective is it? You may remember that at the beginning of the year, when the story of the water-poisoning in Flint was breaking-big, we took a look at the situation and the major players, vowing to return to check for any progress, any possible misery mitigation, for the…

‘Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day’ — The Obama Diary

11:0 AM EDT: The First Lady meets with, and takes questions from, children of Executive Office employees, and young people from Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, SchoolTalk, and the D.C. Child and Family Services Agency as part of ‘Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day’

via ‘Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day’ — The Obama…

Brussels Attacks : 34 dead, close to 200 injured

Twin blasts hit Zaventem airport at about 07:00 GMT, killing 11 people.

Another explosion struck Maelbeek metro station near the EU’s headquarters an hour later, leaving a further 20 people dead.

The Islamic State (IS) group said it was behind the attacks in a statement issued on the IS-linked Amaq agency.

The bombings come four days after Salah Abdeslam, the main fugitive in the Paris attacks,…

The Power of Public Relations

PR’s Role in Politics

  The majority of us working in and around the perimeter of the public relations community are very blasé about what we do. We meet, we talk. Our team takes an assignment, and researches it. A campaign comes together, and with the client’s approval, we plan and execute it. We analyze our campaign’s outreach by the Nano-second, and obsessively count the media mentions and the…

GOP operatives, conservative leaders meet to thwart Trump – The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/03/17/gop-operatives-conservative-leaders-meet-to-thwart-trump/

It had to happen. Trump is ripping the Republican party apart. Read Bob Costa’s piece on today’s conservative meeting in Washington DC.