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Nominations Open for .EU Web Awards [Audio]

Leonora Staines from EURid, the .EU domain registry is our guest on today’s podcast. Nominations have opened for the second annual .EU Web Awards. Click on the player above to listen to the show, or download it here: 7:42; 4MB; MP3. Nominations are open until September 1, and it’s free to enter. There are five categories: The […]

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It’s #FoodFriday on Twitter!

It’s #FoodFriday on Twitter today, all over Europe. In Ireland more than 30 Irish restaurants and foodies are taking part in and it is already trending. Today you can interact with over 300 chefs, restaurants and foodies taking part to share your food passions, discover new places and recipes and get inspired. This morning, restaurants and chefs will give exclusive behind-the-scenes tours […]

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Graphene-Enhanced BioSensor Speeds Diagnosis

A team led by Professor Georg Duesberg, Investigator at AMBER, the Science Foundation Ireland funded materials science centre based at Trinity College Dublin, in collaboration with the group of Dr. Andreas Holzinger at Université Grenoble Alpes and Professor Maryam Tabrizian from Montreal McGill University, Montreal, have produced a new graphene biosensor. This new biosensor has demonstrated […]

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Fergal Crehan on “Ireland as a Digital Privacy Powerhouse” [Video]

On Friday, Twitter announced a change to their terms of service and privacy policy which puts Ireland at the centre of its international operations, citing the benefits of European data protection law as a rationale for the move. Just two days earlier, barrister Fergal Crehan spoke at the Blacknight-sponsored Digital Rights Europe Conference on the topic of Ireland as a […]

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Graham Dwyer and Data Retention – An Interview with TJ McIntyre of Digital Rights Ireland [Audio]

Today’s podcast is an interview with TJ McIntyre, Chairman of Digital Rights Ireland, about the Irish Data Retention legislation which was challenged recently by defence lawyers in the Graham Dwyer murder case. Click on the player above to listen to the show, or download it here: 27:55; 16MB; MP3. After Graham Dwyer was convicted of the murder of […]

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Technology Drives Efficiency in Dairy Expansion – An Interview with Dr Edmond Harty [Audio]

On April 1, the EU lifted the quota system for dairy production which had been in place for over 30 years. Now European dairy farmers are permitted to produce as much milk as they can sell. Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney called it “the biggest policy change for rural Ireland that we’ve seen in a lifetime“. So what […]

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Digital Rights Europe Conference will Focus on Practicalities [Audio]

Blacknight is sponsoring the inaugural Digital Rights Europe Conference, in Dublin on April 15 (and we’re giving a 50% discount on the tickets – see below!) Antóin Ó Lachtnáin is on the organising team and he joins us on today’s podcast. Click on the player above to listen to the show, or download it here: 16:47; 10MB; MP3. Digital Rights Ireland is an […]

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