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	<title>IQTrainwrecks.com &#187; Irish IQ Trainwrecks</title>
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		<title>Quality Information &#8211; it can be a lottery!</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/12/20/quality-information-it-can-be-a-lottery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Embarrassing Trainwrecks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a little while since our last post of an IQTrainwreck. That doesn&#8217;t mean that they dont&#8217; still occur. Only this past weekend Irish national broadcaster RTE published inaccurate information about the winning numbers in the Irish National Lottery draw at the end of the broadcast. .We&#8217;d like to show you video footage of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accounting Accountability</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/11/04/accounting-accountability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Europe we learn of two stories with similar characteristics that tick all the boxes for classic Information Quality Trainwrecks. &#160; From Germany we hear that due to errors in internal accounting in the recently nationalised Hypo Real Estate, the German National debt was overstated by €55 Billion (US$76 bn approx). This was doubly embarrassing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No room at the Inn</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/08/29/no-room-at-the-inn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Embarrassing Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irish IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transport IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accomodation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accuracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fact checking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Twitter we came across this tale of Information Quality fun and games from the South West of Ireland. Macroom is a popular tourist destination in Co. Cork. The local Town Council have invested in a portal website for the town Macroom.ie.&#160; One of the boasts of Macroom is that is just 45 minutes away [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It could be YOU (and 44,999 others)</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/08/03/it-could-be-you-and-44999-others/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/08/03/it-could-be-you-and-44999-others/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 02:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Embarrassing Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irish IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Irish National Lottery had an embarrassment last week when their Bank Holiday promotion draw went awry. As part of a special draw for the August Bank Holiday weekend, the Lottery were offering a prize of a Jaguar XK convertible as an additional prize to the person who won the jackpot. Unfortunately, due to apparent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unhealthy Healthcare data</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/06/07/unhealthy-healthcare-data/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/06/07/unhealthy-healthcare-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health & Welfare IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irish IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For a change (?) it is nice (?) to see stories about healthcare IQ Trainwrecks that don&#8217;t necessarily involve loss of life, injury, tears, or trauma. Today&#8217;s Irish Examiner newspaper carries a story of the financial impacts of poor quality data in healthcare administration. At a time when the budgets for delivery of healthcare in [...]]]></description>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
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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 [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/12/21/perhaps-they-should-have-checked-their-listings-twice/#comments</comments>
		<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&#8242;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>No smoke without ire &#8211; Life Insurance Overcharging in Ireland</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/10/30/no-smoke-without-ire-life-insurance-overcharging-in-ireland/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/10/30/no-smoke-without-ire-life-insurance-overcharging-in-ireland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[European IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial Services IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[RTE News in Ireland ran a story last night on overcharging by Irish Life Assurance companies arising from a mis-classification of customers as smokers. (link to the item is here, but you may not be able to access it if you are not in Ireland). On foot of two complaints, the Irish Financial Services Ombudsman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost in Translation</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/09/11/lost-in-translation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Embarrassing Trainwrecks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not a trainwreck in the strict sense of the word or on the scale of other cases we&#8217;ve logged recently, but this story from the Irish Examiner does illustrate the importance of language and terminology in communicating important information. Breakdowns in the transfer of important information can often cause distress and a failure to meet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irish State Exam leak being studied.</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/06/05/irish-state-exam-leak-being-studied/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/06/05/irish-state-exam-leak-being-studied/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Trainwrecks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A serious complication has emerged in Leaving Certificate exams run by the Irish State each year.. An exam Superindtendent accidentally distributed the wrong paper in one exam centre earlier this week. He put out the exam questions for Paper 2 of the English examination, which wasn&#8217;t the subject being examined. The paper was, it seems, [...]]]></description>
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