Category: Community Interest
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Charlie Haughey dead?
Both the BBC and the Irish Examiner are reporting that Charlie Haughey has died. For any who are unaware of Charlie Haughey, he is a former Taoiseach (prime minister) of Ireland – one of the most controversial figures in Irish politics since the foundation of the state. The end of an era.
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Everything you blog is false!
Today’s podcast is an interview I did with TJ McIntyre – TJ is Chairman of Digital Rights Ireland, and is a lecturer in Law in UCD. The interview was fascinating, and should be compulsory listening for any Irish blogger. TJ informed me that everything published on a blog is automatically considered defamatory in the eyes…
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Publish and be damned (or possibly lose your house!)
I attended the presentation by Digital Rights Ireland at TechCamp Ireland recently and while I was impressed by the presenters and what they had to say, I honestly felt a lot of it was scaremongering to get support. In a one-to-one after the presentation, TJ McIntyre told me that simply by publishing an article, you…
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Is clean, cheap energy in the pipeline?
A report in Friday’s Guardian tells of a new form of clean, cheap energy production – which has academics fighting over quantum theory! Basically, the new form of energy production, called hydrino energy, breaks the rules of long accepted quantum theory and so while it might work in practice, it doesn’t appear to work in…
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Irish Primary School curriculum soon to be available online
The Examiner reported yesterday that the Primary School curriculum will “soon be available online”. According to the article: The Government and private sector have joined forces in a project to post subjects online. ‘Teachnet’ will train 50 teachers in web-technology to develop material for schools everywhere. I guess “soon” is a relative term. How long…
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Where to eat in Glengarriff
If you find yourself in the beautiful West Cork town of Glengarriff and you are looking for somewhere to eat, I can heartily recommend you stay well away from Casey’s Hotel Glengarriff. I was there last weekend with my wife, my son and my wife’s nephew and we had lunch there – the food was…
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3 Ireland about to launch
3 Ireland is about to launch with a range of services and handsets which are likely to put serious pressure on the current O2-Vodafone duopoly. On Morning Ireland this morning, 3’s Commercial Director for Ireland, Stephen Pilkington, announced that their 200 anytime minutes offering would be priced at 25 euro per month – that is…
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Risk Equalisation – BUPA Ireland wins round one
Risk equalisation, according to the Health insurance Authority, is a process that aims to equitably neutralise differences in insurers’ costs due to variations in the health status of their members. Risk equalisation results in cash transfers from insurers with lower risk members to insurers with higher risk members. In other words, under risk equalisation, BUPA…