Archive for June, 2006
Magnet Entertainment Polish Package (SBP - 18th June 2006)
Sunday, June 18th, 2006Just a small piece in this week’s Sunday Business Post;
Magnet Entertainment is to launch Ireland’s first triple-play package tailored for the Polish community. Magnet Entertainment Poland will consist of a phone line, 2Mb broadband connection and a nine channel digital TV package which includes Poland’s TV Polonia, TVP Kultura and TVP3. The package will retail […]
On Charles J. Haughey
Saturday, June 17th, 2006In 1992 I was just 7 years old; so by the time I became ‘politically aware’ the name Charles J. Haughey was irreconcilably linked to the word Tribunal. While I knew that this man was a former Taoiseach of ours the publicity he recieved was not an account of his role in Irish politics but […]
Jean Cahill of DIT confirms: Eating burgers helps brain
Friday, June 16th, 2006RTÉ News yesterday covered a pretty scary story about DIT conducting product research with children on behalf of companies such as Glanbia; this research involved getting children as young as 8 to taste and rate products such as crisps, cheese an burgers.
The initial scandal is that schools are allowing this, the other side is that […]
What the Offaly haircut incident says about Ireland
Tuesday, June 13th, 2006Below is a piece I was working on for print in relation to the recent Offaly haircut row.
As I say in the article, it’s easy to blow the issue out of proportion but at the same time it’s also easy to overlook the implications such a situation has for a very different country to the […]
Sunday Independent to face legal action
Sunday, June 11th, 2006Blurred Keys has the full story but this comes as little surprise. The Sunday Independent and all others involved have managed to avoid legal action under the rule that you can’t libel a dead person but thankfully their dangerous lack of research will come under some scrutiny.
Read Cian’s piece here; Irish Times article here.
Looking at the world as a journalist
Sunday, June 11th, 2006While studying in Coláiste Dhúlaigh one comcept was repeated to the class on numerous occasions; you encounter stories on a day to day basis, it’s just a matter of spotting and them developing them. For me it was easy to be cynical about this idea; unless you live an amazing life or have direct contact […]
Politicians taking the net seriously?
Sunday, June 11th, 2006The Sunday Times has a piece on the hiring of Zach Exley by Labour; Mulley gives a good breakdown of the news along with some reaction by the bigger players in the political wing of the Irish blogosphere.
With websites like Irishelection.com gaining momentum it was always the case that blogging would have some effect on […]
Defining the national broadcaster in Ireland
Saturday, June 10th, 2006Green TD Ciarán Cuffe recently blogged about the statutory rape crisis and while it was great to get a unique political perspective on the whole debacle, one comment he made stood out for me. The comment wasn’t as much about the crisis as it was about the public and media reaction;
The crowds outside was angry […]
New look site
Friday, June 9th, 2006I’ve been quite quiet over the past few days on the blogging-front despite having numerous topics to discuss however that should all change now that my site update is complete (as you can see… hopefully).
It’s almost a year since I registered the domain and hosting and frankly all the action that took place on the […]
Setanta undecided on NTL Premiership packages (SBP - 4/June/06)
Monday, June 5th, 2006My article from the Media & Marketing section of the Sunday Business Post (4th June 2006):
The English FA Premiership packages won by Setanta in this week’s auction are not guaranteed to be broadcast on the basic Setanta Sports channel on NTL.
Setanta Ireland’s chief executive Niall Cogley told The Sunday Business Post that a decision had […]
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