The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner is planning to hire 45 people which will more than double its current staff. 18 people will be recruited ‘immediately’ to staff its planned new office in Dublin. The details were confirmed by the recently appointed commissioner, Helen Dixon, in a speech to the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) in Dublin. Ms […]
The Irish games industry needs a package of incentives similar to that which is available to the film industry if the sector is to grow and compete with its UK counterpart. That’s according to the CEO of one of Ireland’s leading indigenous games companies. Barry O’Neill is the CEO of StoryToys and he’s our guest on today’s […]
2014 was the year in which the loss of online privacy became a painful reality for some celebrities, as well as many not so well known victims of ‘revenge porn’. Many people believe that there’s no way to combat this kind of unwanted exposure: once intimate pictures or videos have been published there’s nothing that can be done. […]
You might want to pass right along if you’ve already seen your quota of mushy marriage proposals for 2015 – but seriously, this is a lovely one. Tears and all. Result! Cliff Henry took his girlfriend Fiona Henry for a walk up Killiney Hill, where he had arranged for the band KeyWest to serenade her while he got […]
2015 has been designated the year of Irish Design: ID2015. It’s a year-long programme aimed at promoting and celebrating Irish design, with a strong focus on creating sustainable jobs, creating new design start-up companies and growing design led exports. ID2015 is supported by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. The Minister for Business and Employment, Ged Nash TD, […]
SpunOut.ie, the youth information service, is holding a privacy workshop on this Wednesday January 7 at its headquarters in Temple Bar. The event will be led by privacy activist Tommy Collison, whom we interviewed in a podcast just before Christmas. Tommy’s already run a couple of these events in New York, where he is a student of journalism. Back home in Ireland […]
Taylor Swift may have broken up with Spotify, but she definitely hasn’t broken up with the internet. The star used social media to find out what some of her fans were into and then sent them – or even brought them – personal gifts for Christmas. It might sound like a big PR stunt, but […]
