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Victoria Wells aka Professor Pub 🍻 @professorpub.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Really happy that our paper "‘You don’t want to be sat on a sticky seat’: a Q-methodological foraging analysis of pub consumer choice" is now published in the Journal of Marketing Management @jmmnews.bsky.social First 50 eprints are available free - www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PX8ZR...

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‘You don’t want to be sat on a sticky seat’: a Q-methodological foraging analysis of pub consumer choice

This study investigates how consumers trade-off between various features when making pub choices, a previously underexplored area. Uniquely we apply foraging theory as a multi-level, ecologically b...

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is how they got Saruman the white as well.

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I made Noel buy it for me 😎 sorry to have missed the launch and congrats!

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Delighted to speak with Ariane Fournier ovver the weekend @radiocanada.bsky.social about "Why are European countries withdrawing their gold reserves from the United States?" @ucc.ie Article here: ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/228...

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Les pays Européens retirent leur or de la Réserve américaine

Citant notamment un risque géopolitique grandissant, plusieurs banques centrales européenne font le choix de rapatrier la valeur refuge.

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

At this point, Earth: Season 2026 is just recycling rejected storylines from earlier seasons

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Thanks to all the presenters for their work, to those who attended online and in person for their questions and insights, to @alcoholireland.ie for their suport and @researchireland.ie funding this work. The full programme is here, and some of the talks were recorded and are available on request.

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

And the workshop finished with Dr. Lana Repar @ucc.ie dicussing an upcioming ook chapter on "Low- and Alcohol-Free Beer Consumer Trends and Success Stories: The Cases of Lucky Saint and Impossibrew"

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

After the break we had Dr. Nadine Waehning & @dremilynicholls.bsky.social @york.ac.uk on their work and projects "NoLo Interventions in UK Pubs"

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Paper 4 just before lunch came from Dr. Nathan Critchlow @stir.ac.uk on "Current trends in marketing for alcohol free and low alcohol drinks"

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Paper 3 covered "Youth Advertising of NoLo Products Across Five Countries" by Dr. Frank Houghton of Technological University of Shannon

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Paper 2 was on "The Relationship Between Purchasing Alcohol-Free and Low-Alcohol Drinks and Standard Alcoholic Drinks" using UK household data from Dr. Luke Wilson @sheffielduni.bsky.social

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If you need to sell lots of gold London is and has been for a long time the better market to store your gold in. post Covid London has been moving back to being the dominant of the two markets - increasing US political uncertainty will only speed that up.

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Delighted to start the NoLo Switch Workshop today in @ucc.ie funded by @researchireland.ie. I presented paper 1, co-authored with Nadine Waehning (York) and Zubair Kabir (UUC), on whether Non-Alcoholic Beer is a substitute for Beer. Workshop organised with @alcoholireland.ie

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In June 1937 - "Most arbitrage houses only prepared to accept gold at fancy prices." New favourite quote from the Financial News bullion notes.

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Delighted the 1st podcast of my @researchireland.ie funded project discussing our early results on whether Non- Alcoholic beer as a substitute for beer is now out with @alcoholireland.ie with @sheilagilheany.bsky.social and Zubair Kabir @ucc.ie is now available alcoholireland.ie/media-centre...

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Costs a lot to remove the alcohol from the normal beer that gets produced first, and it’s such a small market that the economies of scale aren’t there so not significantly more profitable

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Pretty big break happening in academia between the “AI is banned for reviews” journals and the “AI is mandatory for reviews” journals. www.refine.ink/blog/economi...

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Refine partners with the American Economic Association and the Econometric Society

Two leading publishers in economics now use Refine's AI-assisted technical verification as part of their publication processes.

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

They saw how good the Hedge Knight was with a former Connacht player and thought, this is the way🏉

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Perfect for a pub quiz, would allow someone after a few pints to try and argue that Wales is a principality and not a country when they get it wrong 😹

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

May 21st 1936, the Financial News reported that the BOE bought £13 #gold, having bought £700k a few days before. Did someone turn up at Threadneedle St & sell the Bank two ounces of gold? Daily balance books are recorded in £'000s, so the figure can't be verified directly. @boeresearch.bsky.social

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Followed by the one who tells you that the last member of the ‘51 panel dies last year in Tralee, but he never got on off the bench in the final so did he even count?

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Presented work with colleagues from @ucc.ie and @york.ac.uk at @pintofscienceie.bsky.social in Cork a few weeks back on whether Non-alcoholic beer is a substitute for beer in an international study of 80+ countries, with presenters from @mtu.ie on topics around AI and Sport participation.

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

FT online started reporting that #SpaceX would open 30% up, changed online to 25% later and now 20%.

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I’d like all the Leinster lads to win and get medals (great lads) - as a Munster supporter, but for Leinster to somehow lose as well. Cannot be arranged?

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Evaluates local precious metals market efficiency from 7 markets in local currencies,rather than US-where the focus usually is.Efficiency of the 2 precious metals varies over time across developed and emerging markets without a pattern, indicating heterogeneity within each metal and local market.

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Sometimes, and sometimes they’re tiny!

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Some for window in the willows kicking off Magic Realism.

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

“Researchers discover AI hallucinations” makes it sound like a scientific breakthrough rather than “some actually read the report”.

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Nae King! Nae Quin! Nae Laird! Nae Master! We willna’ be filled again! @terrypratchett.bsky.social

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Cash for #Gold /Silver! Recycling when prices are high is nothing new. Here is the Financial and Bullionist Newspaper on Oct 28 1919, as silver prices reached record highs, discussing whether "All out #silver plate is likely to disappear into the melting pot?"

the Financial and Bullionist Newspaper on Oct 28 1919, as silver prices reached record highs, discussing whether "All out #silver plate is likely to disappear into the melting pot?"

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I'll be talking about the Economics of No- and Low-alcoholic drinks @pintofscienceie.bsky.social in Cork this year in the Liberty Bar on Monday, May 18th, along with research talking about Mothers & Others and AI @ucc.ie Tickets are free here - pintofscience.ie/event/cultur...

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From community sport to smart tech, how is modern life reshaping how we connect? Discover how the Gaelic4Mothers&Others programme boosts wellbeing and belo…

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

“A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.” www-users.cse.umn.edu/%7Eodlyzko/d...

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

In 1938, small investors, especially in France, hoarded #gold coins because gold bars were too expensive. High demand pushed coin prices above their gold value. Some state banks profited by selling coins at a premium and replacing them with cheaper gold bars.

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Also assumes O’Connell isn’t a stats guru - the man has 3/4s of a computer science degree!

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

There’s Muckie, the monster in the Killarney lakes too.

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Macroom - where he’s from in Cork has a town phrase “the town that never raised a fool”. He’ll have to tell them to change it now.

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Here is a short paper I was involved in writing using these arguments to estimate a LR return for gold. www.gold.org/goldhub/rese...

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Gold's long-term expected return (GLTER)

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

The majority of gold owned is jewellery(54%) financial demand causes a lot of churn,but the stock of gold builds up mostly with consumers. It would be fundamentally determined by savings ability and economic growth. Gold is not simply a financial asset. In the long run consmers are the holders.

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Fergal O’Connor @a-fergal.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Gold is not a normal asset-by the logic that fear is only sentiment there are no fundmental drivers for gold-without a yeild. If a bubble occrs when high prices are not justified then gold at 5k is justified if there were to be a serious shock in confidence in the dollar without an alternative.

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