Simultaneously with the launch of our blog the Irish Times business desk opened an account on Twitter (@IrishTimesBiz) to keep people up to date with our activities. For those of you not familiar with Twitter read this bluffer’s guide.

Anyway imagine our surprise when we arrived into the office to find that Olympic boxer Kenny Egan (@KennyEgan) was now following our updates on Twitter. Hi Kenny – never realised you were on Twitter or had such in interest in business and enterpreneurship.