TikTok has uncovered and shut down a secretive operation to influence Irish users and whip up social conflict. The covert influence operation (CIO) network comprised 72 accounts with a total following of almost 95,000 users. The video sharing platform’s work to find and remove the accounts was detailed in a report to the European Commission. […]
Ireland’s data watchdog has fined Facebook’s parent company Meta Ireland 390 million euro as a row erupted over whether further investigation of the use of people’s data is warranted. Meta Ireland was fined 210 million euro for breaches of EU data privacy rules relating to Facebook, and 180 million euro for breaches on Instagram. Meta […]
Tech giant Meta has been fined 265 million euro by Ireland’s data protection watchdog for breaching EU data privacy laws. The Data Protection Commission (DPC) issued the sanction against the Facebook parent company for failing to protect millions of Facebook users’ personal data, such as telephone numbers and email addresses, from being “scraped” and published […]
Twitter has confirmed 140 redundancies in Dublin, the Irish Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment said. Leo Varadkar declined to speculate if more job losses could be on the way. “We did receive, at long last, the redundancy notice from Twitter today in the department, it’s about 140 redundancies,” he said. “My thoughts are with […]
The Taoiseach has said the Government is to consult tech giants whose Ireland-based employees are at risk of redundancy. Micheal Martin said there are issues within the digital sector and he is concerned over the potential job losses in the state. He made the comments as Tanaiste Leo Varadkar meets officials from the Industrial Development […]
An Post has announced a new stamp issue which will celebrate women in sport. The issue of six stamps celebrate six Irish women: Rachael Blackmore, who became the first female top jockey at Cheltenham and the first female Aintree Grand National winner.Kellie Harrington and Katie Taylor, both of whom are Olympic boxing gold medallists, and Katie […]
The Irish government has started issuing certificates to people who have been vaccinated. If you were vaccinated via one of the HSE’s vaccination centres then you will receive your cert via email. If you were vaccinated via a GP then you’ll get it in the post. The emails are sent from: no-reply-dcc@health.gov.ie The email subject […]
Má tá tú scoite amach, féin-aonaraithe, Lá ‘le Pádraig, bíodh ‘fhios agat go bhfuil go leor ábhar Éireannach ar Netflix faoi lathair. Lost Girls When Mari Gilbert’s (Academy Award® nominee Amy Ryan) daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen. Her search brings attention […]
There are now over a quarter of a million registered .IE domains, according to IE Domain Registry, the company that manages and maintains Ireland’s country domain, .IE. The newly rebranded Dublin-based beauty salon, The Wicklow Street Clinic, was the 250,000th registered .IE domain name. Continued Growth The recent IE Domain Registry Domain Profile Report for […]
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 […]
