The National Women’s Council of Ireland launched a new website yesterday and it was really lovely to be asked to do the launching at a function in Dublin. It’s a important development for the organisation with the site becoming the main source of information on their work and giving a profile for their many member organisations and […]
The women behind Beaut.ie are the among the nicest, savviest, most genuine people in Irish Blogging. They have the prettiest blog and they have the biggest readership. (Gorgeous handbags also as I witnessed at the Web Awards the other evening). They even dabble in a little bit of politics from time to time – well […]
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I’m in the RDS this afternoon for the Green Party Conference on the Renewed Programme for Government. There is a liveblog running and Green Party members are inside the hall tweeting. You can read the full document online and it was available a good hour before the printed version. Loads of reaction online to the […]
I’ll be in Dublin Castle tomorrow at the National Count Centre with Cian and Alexia and a load of foreign media scratching their heads and wondering what is going on! There is a liveblog already established for the count results and we are looking forward to pulling in news from around the country as the […]
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The soon to be monikered ‘Woodward and Bernstein’ of the Irish Blogosphere, Gavin Sheridan (Of Tribunal and other corruption blasting central blog, Gavinsblog) and whippersnapper Mark Coughlan (lately of Irishelection.com) last week launched TheStory.ie … dedicated to sharing documents, combing and combining data and promoting transparency in public life: An experiment in journalism and crowdsourcing […]
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