Monthly Archives: October, 2009
In Focus
Is there a faith based response to the recession? With the National Director of The Saint Vincent de Paul calling on the Government to use the recession as an opportunity to create a fairer society. In this report I speak to several people of faith to see if their beliefs can help them through these [...]
Google Waving not Drowning
What would email look like if we set out to invent it today Wave and Drowning They claim it will revolutionise personal communication, they say it will change how we arrange our lives but Wave, Google’s latest web app, mightn’t be as ground-breaking as Google say. Getting a Google Wave account is a difficult thing. [...]
Freedom of Tweets
“There is no news tonight” reported the BBC one April evening in 1930. History repeated itself in 2009 when the Guardian told its readers of a story it couldn’t report. In what the editor of the Guardian described as “a fantastic own goal” the oil trading company Trafigura managed to obtain a so-called “super injunction” [...]
Social Archiving
The governing body of the Auschwitz Museum in Poland today launched an official Facebook profile for the concentration camp. The governing body hope to use the social networking site to promote awareness of the Auschwitz Camp to a younger audience. “If our mission is to educate the younger generation to be responsible in the contemporary [...]
Bogus Emails on the Rise
Tax payers in Ireland are being targeted by a British email scam the Irish Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) warned yesterday. The bogus emails, claiming to be from HM Revenue & Customs, advise recipients to claim tax-refunds worth £200 to £500. To receive the refund recipients are asked to complete an online form asking [...]
Pinged by The Guardian
Ok, so a vanity post- my post about RTE and DAB was pinged by The Guardian today. I’ve been smiling about this all day.
Wealth in Ireland
An increasing number of people believe that wealth is unfairly distributed in Ireland, according to a survey conducted by the independent research organisation TASC. Some 85% of people questioned think that wealth is not fairly dispersed in Ireland. An increase of 15% on 2008. Introducing the survey, TASC Director Paula Clancy says “the onset of [...]
