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 […]
Visual Effects in Lavish Spanish TV Show Revealed [Video]
Spanish TV series “The Plague” (La Peste) is the most expensive Spanish TV production to date with a budget of 10 million euros, around 200 actors, over 2,000 extras and 400 technical experts. The show is based in 16th century Seville, but as pretty much nothing of the city exists today it was up to […]
Behind the Scenes With Intel’s Drones
Intel was scheduled to provide a spectacular drone display as part of the opening ceremony at this year’s winter Olympics. Unfortunately the drone part of the ceremony was cancelled. However that doesn’t mean that we can’t all enjoy the performance, as the company had shot video of their behind the scenes work on the performance […]
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 […]
Amazon Prime Video Expands Choice of TV Shows in Ireland
Amazon’s Prime Video service launched in Ireland back in December of last year. With the introductory pricing of €2.99 / month for the first six months it’s hard to knock the service’s value, though, like NetFlix when it launched the range of TV shows and movies is a little lacking. Amazon, however, have announced that […]
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 […]
Entrepreneurship in Ireland Returns to Pre-Recession Levels
One in every 23 people in Ireland (aged 18-64 years) is a new business owner according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2016 Survey of Entrepreneurship in Ireland which has just been published. These figures are similar to the US and high compared to European countries. Enterprise Ireland, supported by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise […]
Irish Vampire Web Comedy Series Explores Life and Undeath for the Tinder Generation
“How can an undead villain search for love in the age of tinder? What if you were socially awkward and a monster? Join one sexy vampire – OK maybe not that sexy – as he tries to find the love of his life, again.” That’s the premise of Little Black Lies, a new Irish vampire […]