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Ombudsman, and our staff operate within the Code of Practice. The Journal supports the work of the Press Council of Ireland and the Office of the Press The irony, of course, is that the calls being made from inside them tend to be on mobile phones – the rise of which led to the decline in use in street phoneboxes in Ireland. The phoneboxes made by the Burke company are now being shipped around the world – in some Irish-themed pubs the largest ones are being used for exactly what one might think: as a “quiet zone”. So I had to start thinking outside the box, pardon the pun. We were doing great in the boom, 2005, 2006, everything was going great but then construction went through the floor. Sympathy struck and I thought, ‘No, I have to do something about this,’ so it went on the back boiler, I’m a joinery constructor by trade. When I saw them being taken down and broken and dumped, I just couldn’t believe it. It was all about the destruction of the Irish telephone box. When I looked at it, it was a 15-minute short film that won awards in America, believe it or not. I looked at a short film Youtube called Bye Bye Now which was directed by Ross Whitaker and Aideen O’Sullivan. The phonebox miniature has gone to Washington DC with the Taoiseach and protocol will make a decision later today on whether it will be used in the presentation.īurke said that he was inspired to begin manufacturing replicas of the iconic wooden-frame Irish phoneboxes by this award-winning short film, Bye Bye Now, by Ross Whitaker and Aideen O’Sullivan of True Films. The MD and founder of the company, John Burke, told the Ray D’Arcy Show on Today FM this morning that he had approached the Department of the Taoiseach with his idea and had hand-delivered the model phonebox, measuring just under a foot tall, to Kenny’s team on 6 March. The box was handcrafted by Burke Joinery Ltd, a Dublin family joinery business set up in 1985. Instead, there is a distinct possibility that tonight’s presentation of shamrock from Taoiseach Enda Kenny to President Barack Obama could be made using a miniature traditional Irish phonebox. That’s the hope of a family company in Ireland which has served up an alternative vessel to the Waterford Crystal bowl normally used to present shamrock to the US president on St Patrick’s weekend.
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