So a few weeks after going free the Irish Times is going all bloggy on us.

Joining Conor Pope and Jim Carroll last week was Brian Mukandi with Outside In which is definitely a much needed eye on Ireland from the outside inside and it’s getting a lot of interest and interaction if one looks at the numbers of comments.

Yesterday saw the launch of their politics blog with the Irish Times pol corrs and reporters taking to the keyboard including Harry McGee who is not new to blogging at all and is very much welcome back to my RSS reader, and Deaglán de Breadun and Mark Hennessey who I spotted having a chat with Mary Hanifin in the Dáil today.

Fair play to the lads getting 21st century with their journalism – where are the women bloggers in Tara Street?