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Jonathan Power - CEO of St Michaels House Foundation - which helps people with Intellectual Disabilities - talks about how people can help out
I was delighted to talk to Jonathan Power, the CEO of St Michaels House Foundation about how he is seeking to build partnerships with people and corporates who would like to know more about, or to help out, St Michael’s House. His approach is to develop longer term relationships and to engage with people who are interested.
St Michaels House is a not-for-profit that is over 70 years old and has been looking after people with Intellectual Disabilities over that time. (It was founded in the 1950s by two women; there is a short history below.). I can personally vouch for the important work that the Charity has done, and is doing, for thousands of people living with ID and supporting them and their their families, literally from cradle to grave.
Jonathan is an engaging and lively speaker and you will enjoy this Pod, feel free to drop him a line at:
Jonathan.Power@smhfoundation.ie
or via LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-power/
St Michaels House - the beginning, a short history
On Thursday, 2nd June 1955 a small advertisement appeared in The Irish Times:
"Association for Parents of Mentally Backward Children. Lady wishing to form above would like to contact anyone interested. Box Z 5061 Children."
It was placed by Patricia Farrell, a farmer from Gigginstown, Co. Westmeath, whose son Brian had Down Syndrome. Along with her friend and Co-Founder, Madge Atock, they were seeking an education for Brian. Patricia had been shocked to discover that there were no school options for him. Indeed, the only service available for children with an intellectual disability at the time was institutionalised residential care.
The response to the advert was larger and more positive than Patricia had expected. Following a public meeting in the Mansion House chaired by Declan Costello, St. Michael’s House was founded. The new organisation not only wanted to establish new services, but also to bring about a change in how people with an intellectual disability were viewed.
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"We rushed in where many would fear to venture. The one essential was to meet and help parents who came to us not so much for a diagnosis, but for advice about what they should or could do to help their child with a disability."
Dr Barbara Stokes, first Medical Director
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27 Apr 2026
Pieter Oonk- Co-Founder Syncmint talks about the innovative way his company tracks TV/Streaming Ad views at "the edge"
Pieter Oonk, Serial Entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Syncmint talks about his new company that measures TV Ad views (linear and streaming) at “the edge” and presents a new and exciting data opportunity to advertisers.
“We were thinking about where else could you innovate in this space from a consumer centric, consumer centrism perspective, as well as from a cost perspective, if you were to change how you deploy this technology and how you use this technology perhaps you can distinguish yourselves from what others are doing in market so that's what we set out to do so we built a a kind of completely redesigned structure of what i was talking about earlier the fingerprinting the matching of content the matching of of television data coming in we said actually um Instead of trying to track everything, why don't we focus on the part that actually supports the ecosystem of television?”
“So our tech doesn't rely on massive server infrastructure that does a bunch of privacy invasive. We're on the edge. Yeah, we're on the edge. So a product is called Edge ACR. So that's kind of almost obvious. But so that is the moat, being able to do this in device, so therefore being more consumer respecting.”
Pieter can be contacted at pieter@syncmint.ai or on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/pieteroonk/
1 Apr 2026
Steven van Zanen - Head of Product and Co-Founder at BroadForward talks about company growth and the signalling market
Steve van Zanen is Head of Product and Marketing and also a Co-Founder at BroadForward and a Mobile Industry stalwart. I’ve known Steven for many years and always admired his communications and business skills and how he and the BroadForward team developed a great company supplying to the Signalling Market from scratch.
BroadForward is leader in intelligent signalling software for 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G mobile networks, trusted by over 100 customers worldwide. BroadForward delivers core network products for routing, interworking, security and number portability, helping operators to modernize their networks and transition from legacy to next-generation technologies.
Steven takes the opportunity to talk about how the company has grown into a supplier across all the new signalling technologies and even some of the retro-technologies such as 2G, to satisfy customer demand.
He also lets us know some of the things he does to relax and enjoy life.
Enjoy this Good, Bad and Ugly Innovation Podcast!
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