I was in N.U.I. Maynooth earlier this week, where I gave a guest lecture on social media. The lecture title was ’socialnomics’ and I focused on technology and particular the web was changing the world and how it could and should be used by organisations. I can share the slides with [...]
Irish Blog Awards 2010 (aka #iba10 to Dan Boyle and the like) is here again. Delighted to see that for the third year in a row I have been nominated for an award.
This year I feature in two categories, this blog is in under ‘Best blog by a politician’ which I quite like as before [...]
Catch my latest post over at IrishElection.com ;
http://www.irishelection.com/2010/02/boy-george-no-more/
A story about a little boy who threw all his toys out of the pram.
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Note this is a cross post from IrishElection.com where I’ve been posting a lot lately. There is quite a busy discussion going on over there also on the same piece.
This post stems from a discussion in the comments section under ‘All politics is local’. We were comparing and contrasting the UK and Irish systems in [...]
Last week I spoke of the RTÉ enquiry which led to much acrimony within the Waterways estate at the Minister’s comments which contradicted the technical evidence previously presented. The ful episode can be seen here: http://www.rte.ie/player/#v=1063707
Similar claims had also been made in local media at the outset, example here:
02 December 2009 Leinster Leader – http://www.leinsterleader.ie/news/Counting-the-cost-of-the.5876640.jp
Thankfully the local debate [...]
Just to advise, I have published a longer version of my original highs and lows on IrishElection.com at the following URL:
http://www.irishelection.com/2010/01/highs-and-lows-2009/
Quite a few comments and discussion if you want to drop by there.
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Last night (8th Jan, 2010), RTE Prime Time screened a program on the floods in Sallins, amongst other places.
I spoke to the program makers, on camera, for about thirty minutes, however I did not feature in the eventual program. I did show them around the local landscape and bring them to the site of the [...]
For the benefit of anyone who may have been affected by the recent flooding at Sallins, there is a new page here with pointers to the different resources available.
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I’ve pulled together a collection of some highs and lows from 2009. There may be a few which are neither highs or lows but have aspects of both or worthy of commentary for some other reason.
Some highs:
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Budget 2010. Whilst I accept this was difficult to swallow for many and my own household (being 50% public [...]
Great night had last night at our Waterways benefit night fundraiser, in Boss Byrnes lounge. I was on quizmaster duty and we had a full house, over 25 tables entered and some great prizes, thanks to all our sponsors and supporters. We even had music at the interval, from Sallins latest trad sensations, Sult Na [...]