Researchers from the Insight Centre for Data Analytics have been crunching the Twitter numbers as part of their Insight4Elections data analysis project and they found that Stephen Donnelly, leader of the Social Democrats gained a remarkable 1,457 Twitter followers after last night’s leaders’ debate on RTE, about two thirds more than his closest rival Richard Boyd Barrett […]
The Government yesterday launched Action Plan for Jobs 2016, the fifth in the annual series of jobs plans, led by Minister for Jobs Richard Bruton, and the final plan of the current Dáil. This years plan marks the first in a new phase of the process after the original target of 100,000 extra jobs by 2016 was hit last […]
It’s just a video of a man pressing a button, OK? Lots of other people clap and cheer. Oh – and Pat Kenny is in it too! [youtube]http://youtu.be/6R6gpt2W15U[/youtube] The video gives a feel for what’s going on here, but Web Summit is packed with so much more. We’re making lots of video here at […]
MerrionStreet.ie, the Irish Government’s news service, has just released a slick and funky video of a day in the life of the Taoiseach. What gives it a further technology ‘edge’ is the fact that they picked 30 October, which included Enda’s visit to day one of the Web Summit, where he rang the NASDAQ opening […]
Here’s the video of the final panel discussion from yesterday’s web summit featuring Elon Musk, Taoiseach Enda Kenny and investor Shervin Pishevar. The discussion is chaired by Mark Little of Storyful. Related articles Elon Musk joins Taoiseach for a fireside chat Hyperloop Transportation Technologies is official name of Elon Musk-inspired startup Tesla’s Elon Musk flames […]
With just two days to go until Web Summit, the organisers have just announced that SpaceX & Tesla founder Elon Musk will be among the speakers at this years event. He’ll take part in a fireside discussion with Taoiseach Enda Kenny and investor Shervin Pishevar. The discussion will be chaired by Storyful’s Mark Little. Web […]
Online car parts retailer MicksGarage.com has just announced a significant expansion and investment. The announcement was made this morning during the opening of the company’s new facilities in Dublin by An Taoiseach Mr Enda Kenny. The company has announced that it plans to create another 65 jobs over the next two years. They’ve also got […]
Anonymous have seemingly launched an attack targetting Irish government websites including revenue.ie. Previous Anonymous actions against Ireland took place during the controversy surrounding copyright legislation in early 2012. At the time and again now, the action was referred to as “OpIreland” They published a press release via Youtube to inform the Irish government of what […]
Paddy Power, the online betting giant based in Dublin, has announced over 600 new jobs for Dublin. With the new jobs the company will have close to 3000 staff. According to reports this morning the jobs will be in a variety of roles including social media, e-commerce, marketing and research. An Taoiseach, Mr Enda Kenny, […]
