“Quand tu as un ballon, tu n’as besoin de rien d’autre”. When you have a ball, you don’t need anything else, says international footballer Bastien Héry in this short film shot in Belfast. Currently signed with League of Ireland club, Bohemians, Héry made his international debut for Madagascar last year. Un Ballon is the latest […]
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Heaps of Irish-Related Films on Netflix for Paddy’s Day
Má tá tú scoite amach, féin-aonaraithe, Lá ‘le Pádraig, bíodh ‘fhios agat go bhfuil go leor ábhar Éireannach ar Netflix faoi lathair. Lost Girls When Mari Gilbert’s (Academy Award® nominee Amy Ryan) daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen. Her search brings attention […]
“Simultaneously as Dark and yet Lighter” – Brooker on Black Mirror Season 5
Black Mirror Season 5 is out on Netflix, and by all accounts it’s every bit as weird and wonderful as what as gone before. The series is an anthology of stories which take a look at the impact of technology on society. While some of the technology appears fantastic, most of it is not too […]
How Republic of Work Became an Innovation Campus [Video]
Donal ‘DC’ Cahalane is the founder of Republic of Work – the ‘innovation campus’ in the heart of Cork city which always has something going on. Recently it played host to Amplify Digital, the digital marketing training series, and I attended with the Blacknight crew at the IE Domain Registry stand. After delivering the opening keynote, […]
.IE Domain Registry Reaches a Quarter of a Million Domain Names
There are now over a quarter of a million registered .IE domains, according to IE Domain Registry, the company that manages and maintains Ireland’s country domain, .IE. The newly rebranded Dublin-based beauty salon, The Wicklow Street Clinic, was the 250,000th registered .IE domain name. Continued Growth The recent IE Domain Registry Domain Profile Report for […]
Remembering Herbert Simms: Does History Have Lessons for Ireland’s Housing Crisis?
There’s a housing crisis in Ireland. What should the government do? Where can they look for ideas? It’s fashionable to look abroad for ideas, for ‘international best practice’, but it’s also useful to consider that ‘the past is a foreign country’. Can we learn something from Irish history? Dublin in the 1920s was a city […]
Is it Anti-Social not to use Social Media?
“If you can’t tag him, does he even exist?” From The Independent, here’s a humorous take on that rare phenomenon: the person who doesn’t use social media. HT: Sean Breathnach
Travel Bloggers are Serious About SEO [Video]
Last week Technology.ie went to TBEX, the world’s largest gathering of travel bloggers and travel industry professionals. TBEX Europe was held in Killarney, County Kerry, and our parent company Blacknight was a sponsor and exhibitor. Essentially the conference is a two-day event, but it gets padded out at both ends by several days of touring […]
Mick’s Garage Founders Honoured at 2017 Net Visionary Awards [Video]
Internet innovators Michael and Ciaran Crean from MicksGarage.com won the recognition of their peers in the Irish internet industry on Friday night when they took the overall award at the Dot IE Net Visionary Awards 2017. We were out in force from Blacknight, as one of the sponsors of the event, and we shot the […]
Snapchat Top of the Charts for Fleadh Visitors in Ennis
Clare County Council has revealed that Snapchat was the most popular social media channel among users of the newly launched free public Wi-Fi service in Ennis town centre during Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann from 13 – 21 August. 13.8% of the more than 1 million megabytes (1.08 terabytes) of data transferred during the 9-day period […]