Tag: Community Interest

  • Business women – get your training here!

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    I received an email this morning from Margaret Durand of FEIW (Female Entrepreneurship Ireland Wales). Feiw are currently setting up a pioneering enterprise development course for women in business in the South East. We have designed the programme around the training needs of businesswomen in the region based on the input of these women and…

  • Charity gig in the Spailpín Fánach

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    Donal has a post up about a gig in the Spailpín Fánach tonight to benefit the ISPCC. From Donal’s post: Performers on the night include The Fuchsia Band, back from their travels and who always put on an energetic and entertaining show; Cork singer Ger Wolfe singing some of his distinctively Cork ballads; Dan O’Callaghan,…

  • Simon says

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    The Irish national elections are coming up sometime in the next twelve months (note to self – check I’m on the register since we moved!). By 2007 the current coalition government will have been in government for 17 of the last 20 years. Simon McGarr has written an empassioned post listing some of their many…

  • Charlie Haughey dead?

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    Tom Raftery
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    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.

  • Publish and be damned (or possibly lose your house!)

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    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…

  • Where to eat in Glengarriff

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    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…

  • Irish standards compliant web development agencies and websites

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    Since I delivered the talk for the Irish Internet Association last Thursday in Mitchelstown, several people have asked me for the names of web development agencies who develop standards compliant websites. I know of a few Irish web development agencies who develop web standards compliant sites and will list them here – if anyone knows…

  • Missing: Robert Holohan

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    Tom Raftery
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    Garda√≠ (the Irish police force) at Midleton, Co. Cork are searching for Robert Holohan, an 11 year old boy, who has been missing from his home at Ballyedmund, Midleton since 2.30 p.m. on 4th January 2005. Robert Holohan left his home on his BMX bicycle and hasn’t been seen since. His bike was found at…