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 […]
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 […]
It’s another exciting day for attendees at Web Summit. And it looks like being a busy night! The organisers report that tonight’s closing party presented by Bing is booked out. However they have added a second venue at The Liquor Rooms on Wellington Quay, with capacity for another 400 attendees. It will be open from 7.30pm – […]
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 […]
