Innovation
Fri, 27 Jan 2012, 3:10 pm | Davin O'Dwyer
My interview with the US economist and renowned Marginal Revolution blogger Alex Tabarrok is in today’s Innovation magazine, and can be read here. Tabarrok’s new ebook is called Launching the Innovation Renaissance, and it’s a sharp, brisk read that tackles some of the urgent issues facing the US in terms of encouraging and sustaining an innovation [...]
Home Truths
Fri, 27 Jan 2012, 12:27 pm | Edel Morgan
Do you have a flexi-address? The advantage of one of these is that you can change where you live according to your mood or whoever you happen to be talking to at a particular time. People with flexi-addresses come in two categories: those who are in denial about their true address and those [...]
On The Record
Fri, 27 Jan 2012, 9:39 am | Jim Carroll
It hasn’t gone away, you know. Most of us thought that the debate around music piracy would have been done and dusted by 2012. Yet years after the record industry ran the original Napster out of town but never got around to properly plugging the gap, piracy remains something to fume about. Already this month, [...]
Pursued by a Bear
Thu, 26 Jan 2012, 4:12 pm | Laurence Mackin
Hoolies and hijinks: Every so often, Temple Bar does something to remind us that it was originally conceived as a cultural hub – it’s terrific new umbrellas at Meeting House Square, the atmosphere during Culture Night, or at the moment it’s alive to the sounds of the Temple Bar Trad Fest. For fans of all [...]
Fash Mob
Thu, 26 Jan 2012, 12:30 pm | Rosemary Mac Cabe
Did you catch this shoot in Glamour a few weeks back? So delightfully girly, I love it. We need to see more balloons, is what we need! Needless to say, this is exactly how I look when cycling my bicycle. I think I have those exact same shoes! (Not really …) Check out the rest of [...]
Irish Roots
Wed, 25 Jan 2012, 1:08 pm | John Grenham
The most important Irish records website by far is rootsireland.ie, the largest online source of church register transcripts. Its search interface has improved steadily and it is now just about possible to grin and bear the pain of paying €5 per record transcript in return for the power of the free index search. But one aspect [...]
Screenwriter
Tue, 24 Jan 2012, 10:26 pm | Donald Clarke
Well, it wasn’t a complete disgrace. Screenwriter, at least, managed to have all the front runners in place. But, in two areas at least, I received a fairly serious drubbing. Your correspondent felt that both Tomas Aflredson’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Stephen Daldry’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close would (and not just because their [...]
Minibyte
Tue, 24 Jan 2012, 9:28 am | Ciara O'Brien
Headphones that use “bone conduction” sound more like instruments of torture than something you’d willingly strap to your head. But apparently it’s technology that’s been in use by special ops for some time. Instead of going into your ears, the headphones sit just in front of them. The sound is delivered via your cheekbones, so you [...]
Politics
Sat, 21 Jan 2012, 5:56 pm | Deaglan de Breadun
Enda Kenny faces a major decision in the near future. Should he put the forthcoming European fiscal treaty to popular vote in a referendum or not? Here are some of my own thoughts on the matter, from today’s newspaper. Tell me what you think:- If they ever make a film about Enda Kenny, who would [...]
Motors
Fri, 20 Jan 2012, 3:05 pm | Neil Briscoe
I’ve been thinking very, very hard about this, but at the end, there can be only one conclusion. We have to ban electric cars. No, honestly, we do. And I have a very valid reason for this, let’s face it, somewhat controversial assertion. Let’s start with what electric cars have been portrayed as, compared to what they [...]
Dead Rubber
Mon, 9 Jan 2012, 4:15 pm | John O'Sullivan
Ireland’s squad for the Six Nations Championship is due to be announced next week and while there will be several areas of contention in terms of its composition from a personnel perspective, the issue of who will fill the number 13 jersey in the absence of the injured Brian O’Driscoll has arguably commandeered the most [...]
Current Account
Mon, 9 Jan 2012, 2:27 pm | John Collins
With everyone from Bono to Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, Peter Sutherland to George Soros, heading to the exclusive Swiss ski resort of Davos every January, it’s little surprise that the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum has been accused of being a little exclusive. Although the number of bankers in attendance has fallen off since [...]
The Index
Sat, 31 Dec 2011, 11:36 am | Laura Slattery
Even if you don’t own a television, you’ll be seeing and hearing a lot about the 50th anniversary of television in Ireland over the next few days. It will go something like this: Seán Lemass... well Holy God... one for everyone in the audience... okey-doke... #JeanByrne. But enough of all this rampant nostalgia: what about the next 50 years? Here’s a run-down of events as they are likely to happen.
Mechanical Turk
Tue, 20 Dec 2011, 4:10 pm | Hugh Linehan
Journalism is a messy, imperfect trade. In the course of producing a daily newspaper or operating a news website, hundreds of decisions and judgment calls must be made every week. We try very hard to maintain the highest professional standards, to make the right call, to spot the potential pitfalls and to be fair to [...]
Legal Matters
Fri, 2 Dec 2011, 3:47 pm | Carol Coulter
There’s an interesting discussion going on about the proposed new body. Check out the websites of the Human Rights Commission, Trust and the ICCL, just to start.
Pricewatch
Mon, 14 Nov 2011, 10:54 am | Conor Pope
’TIS THE season to be clever and the cleverest people will be doing at least some, if not all, of their Christmas shopping online. But with hundreds of thousands of websites touting for business and just a handful of big players hoovering up most of that business, it can be hard to find your way [...]
