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		<title>Bank overcharging in Ireland (again)</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2010/04/06/bank-overcharging-in-ireland-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a taste of the change of emphasis that is seeping through the global financial services industry, the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority is pursuing 24 cases of overcharging by banks and insurance companies, according to this morning&#8217;s Irish Independent
Of course, stories of financial services overcharging and other information quality disasters in that industry are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perhaps they should have checked their listings twice?</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/12/21/perhaps-they-should-have-checked-their-listings-twice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Irish Sunday Independent reports this past weekend that the Irish State Broadcaster RTE is facing legal action from its erstwhile privately owned competitor TV3  arising from what are described as &#8220;significant and egregious&#8221; errors in the listings published for TV3&#8217;s programmes over the Christmas period in the RTE owned listing&#8217;s magazine &#8220;The RTE Guide&#8221;. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did you check on the cheques we sent to County Jail?</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/09/08/did-you-check-on-the-cheques-we-sent-to-county-jail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Criminal Justice IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Embarrassing Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government Process IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of Keith Underdown comes yet another classic IQ Trainwreck  which he came across on the CBS News.
It seems that up to 3900 prisoners received cheques (or &#8216;checks&#8217; to our North American readers) of US$250 each, despite the very low probability that they would be able to actually use them to stimulate the economy. Of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Double Debits &#8211; directly. (Another banking IQTrainwreck)</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/05/26/double-debits-directly-another-banking-iqtrainwreck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 21:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial Services IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IQ Trainwrecks and Customer Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bank of ireland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cashflow impacts of information quality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[impact on people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irish banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal issues in iq]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of our Irish colleagues over on Tuppenceworth.ie comes yet another tale of poor quality information in financial services. Although this time it is at the lower end of the scale, at least on a per customer basis. However, the impacts on a customer are still irksome and problematic. And the solution the bank has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Ex-Hell?</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/02/24/microsoft-ex-hell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Embarrassing Trainwrecks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Techcrunch, via The Register, tells us of an information quality error by a small software company based in Redmond, Washington called Microsoft. You may have heard of them.
It would seem that Microsoft has written to some of the former employees it recently made redundant to inform them that they&#8217;ve had too much money paid to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IQ trainwrecks makes YouTube</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2008/11/02/iq-trainwrecks-makes-youtube/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2008/11/02/iq-trainwrecks-makes-youtube/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Underdown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Political World IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USA IQ Train Wrecks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a story of an IQ trainwreck that i bing presented on YouTube. In fact YouTube turns out to be an interesting resource for IQ visual material.
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		<title>Economic impact of Information Quality</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2008/08/21/economic-impact-of-information-quality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2008/08/21/economic-impact-of-information-quality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government Process IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK Trainwrecks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[First off &#8211; an apology for not posting a bit more regularly. It&#8217;s not that there aren&#8217;t any IQ Trainwrecks, it&#8217;s just that there have been so many recently we&#8217;ve been spoiled for choice for the ones to use and we haven&#8217;t had time to edit and compile them all.
However, one that jumped out of [...]]]></description>
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