TEDx CorkWomen interview with Dr Shirley Gallagher [Video]
TEDxCorkWomen is on tonight! Here’s the last of the videos we shot at the launch event last month. Dr Shirley Gallagher is one of the speakers at TEDxCorkWomen. A native of Arranmore Island in Co. Donegal, she is working on a Sustainable Islands project supported by the EU. [youtube]http://youtu.be/nmRJPSnrdPE[/youtube] Tickets for TEDxCorkWomen are, unfortunately, sold […]
Mandela’s Science & Technology Legacy
Nelson Mandela brought peace to a divided nation. The work of development in South Africa and other countries in the region is an ongoing challenge, and Mandela believed that science and technology have a central role in that. Calestous Juma writes in New Scientist: Apartheid did not just separate races. Probably the most destructive of its […]
Bohemian Rhapsody Star Wars Version
Star Wars meets Queen and the result is both entertaining and brilliantly executed.
RIP Nelson Mandela
Irish newspaper front pages are dominated by the death of Nelson Mandela. via RTE Radio 1 Tomorrow mornings front pages (via @MikeHogan4FM) pic.twitter.com/OPwC04pqNk — RTÉ Radio 1 (@RTERadio1) December 6, 2013
Public Forum on Copyright is a Box-Office Hit!
It was barely promoted; indeed it was hardly mentioned since the Copyright Review Committee Report was announced over two months ago. But the Public Forum on the Report, to be held next Monday at 5pm at the Royal Irish Academy, is all booked out. The Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation have confirmed to technology.ie that […]
Waterford Teenager Develops Winterval App
14-year-old Waterford coder Jordan Casey, has created a brand new free app for visitors to the Winterval Festival, which is taking place in Waterford from November 29 to December 31. Waterford schoolboy Jordan is the CEO of Casey Games and he currently has seven games on the App Store and has travelled the world over to major Tech conferences including the […]
Five Social Media Tips from Alfred Hitchcock [Video]
Sabina Bonnici was at CONGregation on Saturday, where simply being a passive participant was not allowed. All who attended had to “blog their way in”, and Sabina’s contribution was Five Social Media Tips from Alfred Hitchcock! I had a chat with her during a break at the event. [youtube]http://youtu.be/G8KjOTK0nbY[/youtube] There are 56 submissions by the […]
House of Cards Returns to Netflix for Season 2
Netflix has just announced that the second season of “House of Cards” will premiere on Friday February 14, 2014. And if you want, you can watch all 13 episodes in a Valentine’s day marathon! Directed by David Fincher and starring Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright the critically-acclaimed drama slithers beneath the curtain and through the back halls […]
New Smartphone App for Child Rescue Alerts
The Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan, the Minister for Justice, Equality & Defence Alan Shatter TD, and the CEO of Vodafone Ireland Anne O’Leary have this morning launched a new free smartphone app that allows users to receive CRI (Child Rescue Ireland) alerts direct to their smartphone. The smartphone app was created with the assistance of […]
Law School Head Says Blogging is “Not Academic Work”
The Irish law blog Cearta.ie is offline this morning after its owner, Dr. Eoin O’Dell of Trinity College, shut it down in response to a decision regarding its academic value. Responding to queries from his followers on Twitter this morning, Dr. O’Dell explained that he had shut down his blog because the Head of […]