Science Week: What was the favourite invention from your childhood?

To celebrate Science Week bloggers are being invited to talk about the effect that science has had in their lives through a range of topics – each day the organisers will reward the best post with a Nintendo Wii console. This post is one of my entries to the competition. “Q1 – What was the [...]

Tribune still losing money, albeit slightly less than before

The Sunday Tribune has been on financial life support for some time now and talk of its impending demise has been as frequent as that of The Progressive Democrats’. That said the company’s latest accounts, as detailed in The Irish Examiner, are going to do very little to improve the perception that it has no [...]

A threat to democracy?

Fine Gael’s Dr. James Reilly has demanded that RTÉ tell all about the decision to drop Dr. James Crown from last Friday’s Late Late Show which is shaping up to be the story of the week. Crown is an outspoken critic of the Government’s cancer care policy and was stopped from appearing on the programme [...]

Delevan story rolls on

The Irish Times has picked up (subs required) on the sacking of Richard Delevan and has confirmed the rumour that Bill Tyson has quit his position in solidarity. It is suggested that management found the ‘tone’ of the Hooke & MacDonald article to be inappropriate and from there they decided to sack him. As with [...]

Richard Delevan sacked from The Sunday Tribune

As Damien has already pointed out, Richard Delevan has been sacked from his post at The Sunday Tribune, where he had been Business Editor for some time. The alleged reason for the sacking centres around an article Delevan wrote for yesterday’s Tribune, where he highlighted the case of a property auctioneer who could not sell [...]

Light and lively laptops (Buyers’ Guide, CiB, SBP – 4th Nov 2007)

Today’s Computers In Business supplement of The Sunday Business Post features a buyers’ guide on laptops written by yours truly. The piece looks at some of the more useful laptop features available to business users and reviews some of the latest models from the big manufacturers. You can find the article here (for the next [...]