Comments on: Shop Local Limerick didn’t shop local for web hosting.

By: zasie

zasie — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:57:16 +0000

Yes there are plenty depending on what type of business one would like to work in. I don't think you would decide to buy a franchise purely because it is Irish. There are lots of factors to be considered. It is afterall a big business decision.

By: squidlimerick

squidlimerick — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:32:31 +0000

Are there no Irish franchises one could buy?

By: zasie

zasie — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:30:32 +0000

ShopLocal Limerick is a franchise purchased from a UK company – the Ryedale group – hence the Uk web host. The Magazine and website were sold as a package so the director of the company did not have any input to it. It is a means for local business to promote to local customers in the immediate and surrounding areas and to a broader audience via the website. Perhaps one might note on a morepositive note that local charities such as Barnardos and special olympics were promoted in some of the editions free of charge! I think that deserves credit for promoting local.

By: Michele

Michele — Wed, 06 May 2009 02:26:28 +0000

@Kieran
That may have been true a few years ago, but most of the serious Irish hosting providers these days have servers in Ireland

By: kieran

kieran — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:10:43 +0000

lads this a non story , the majority of 'Irish' webhosts servers are abroad.

By: seamus Fogarty/Davy

seamus Fogarty/Davy — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:43:46 +0000

Comment copied to correct post.

By: steve

steve — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:54:53 +0000

Seems a bit hypocritical to me

By: squidlimerick

squidlimerick — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:36:35 +0000

Look, they do pontificate to us to support local, their catch phrase is "love local, SUPPORT LOCAL shop local.

I am just sick of people over the last several months telling me where I should spend my money when they don't spend it there themselves.

Fianna Fail hire an american company Blue State to develop their web site when there are hundreds if not thousands of Irish companies who could do it. all the while they are telling us to "do our patriotic duty" and spend here.

Fine gael hired a Russian freelancer to develop their site

Labour have their posters printed in Northern Ireland

My message to this lot are to stop shoving shite in my letterbox telling me to shop local unless you are prepared to do it yourself.

By: Tullaman

Tullaman — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:02:17 +0000

Hold the moral outrage there squid. Unless they are moralising about shopping local then there is nothing to this. SLL sounds like a for profit enterprise. This is plainly not a case of 'do as I say not as I do'. They are just a pain 'ol business trying to make money for themselves – and in so doing also making money for their customers, providing info for their readers, business for printers etc etc. That's the way the world works so cut them some slack.