Remember this gorgeous goal by Irishwoman Stephanie Roche that went viral last year? Now it’s been shortlisted, together with goals by Robin van Persie, Diego Costa and others, for FIFA’s Puskás Award for the best goal of 2014! [youtube]http://youtu.be/c0L0WIK2Ync[/youtube] It’s a wonderful goal, and a wonderful reminder of the everyday heroics that sport can produce, in small competitions as well […]
Aine Kerr, Managing Editor of Storyful, is our guest on today’s podcast (15:59; 9MB; MP3). Storyful calls itself “the world’s first social media news agency”. Founded by ex-RTE anchor Mark Little in 2010, it was acquired by News Corp in 2013 and has offices in Dublin, New York and Hong Kong. “When everyone is a publisher […]
There’s a scene in an episode of Black Mirror, where a couple is having sex. In that fictional society, most people have an implant, called a ‘grain’, which records their every waking moment, and can replay any experience for the user, privately, ‘in their mind’s eye’. It turns out that, while making love, both partners […]
