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    Mobile broadband article in Business & Finance

    Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

    The latest issue of Business & Finance, which hit the shelves late last week, has an article by myself on mobile broadband in Ireland. The article looks at its growth, its problems and where it might be going once these are overcome.
    I spoke to someone from Three mobile and Dell about their involvement in […]

    RTE damages own argument against the Sound and Vision fund

    Monday, October 20th, 2008

    Today’s Irish Times carries a piece on Noel Curran’s speech to the Cleraun Media Conference, where he suggested that an increase in the BCI Sound & Vision fund would force RTÉ to cut investment in Irish programming. Curran, who is the managing director of RTÉ, said imported programming tends to be cheaper than home-produced content […]

    The ironing is delicious

    Friday, October 10th, 2008

    Screen cap taken from here at noon today.

    Happy weekend, folks.

    Mr. Bird goes to Washington

    Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

    So Charlie Bird, RTÉ’s Chief News Correspondent, is off to ply his trade in Washington DC, USA from the start of 2009.
    As with all major movements in places like the RTÉ news-room you cannot help but ask who the winners are losers are.
    The obvious winner here is Bird himself who undoubtedly requested the move across […]

    Comic Genius (The Irish Times - 4th October 2008)

    Saturday, October 4th, 2008

    Today’s Magazine supplement in The Irish Times has a piece by yours truly on Dublin comic book artist Bob Byrne.
    The piece is available here for free and naturally in the printed form around the country.
    It’s a long story that I’ll save for another day but this piece has been in development in some form or […]