Archive for the 'Published' Category
Incredible shrinking laptop (Business & Finance, 1st August 2008)
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008My tech article in the latest issue of Business & Finance is about mini-notebooks or ‘netbooks’ as they’re also known.
Most people following the laptop industry will know about the very successful and minute EeePC and this piece looks at the explosion of interest that has stemmed from its release as well as the ever-increasing variety […]
Homework - Teleworking combats the daily commute (B&F - 19th June 2008)
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008The latest issue of Business & Finance (with a front cover story on corporate governance) has an article by yours truly on the problems stemming from “teleworking” or the mobile office.
The magazine is available in most shops or online if you’re a subscriber - I’ll put up the text of the article in the ‘Portfolio‘ […]
New RTÉ channel will focus on free-to-air system (SBP - 22nd June 2008)
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008An article of mine on FTA satellite in Ireland is in today’s Sunday Business Post - you can find it here. The article is very much an overview of the state of FTA satellite in Ireland and the potential it now has considering the changes in content and availability.
The article has a brief look at […]
RTÉ to launch 24-hour online, mobile-accessible news channel (SBP - 8th June 2008)
Sunday, June 8th, 2008Below is an article of mine from today’s Sunday Business Post. The piece is about RTÉ’s plan to launch a 24-hour news channel online this coming week, which will stream the broadcaster’s news and current affairs programming as well as repeat it throughout the day.
For the moment there’s only limited scope for unique content on […]
Ahern to stay on as TD until next general election (Irish Times - 6th May 2008)
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008Page 7 of today’s Irish Times has an article by myself and Deaglán De Bréadún on Ahern’s apparent plans following his resignation as Taoiseach today. The article is based on a letter sent to constituents, which I mentioned in a previous post here.
The first five paragraphs or so are my own with the rest of […]
Article on the FAI in April’s Village
Friday, March 28th, 2008The latest edition of Village has an article of mine on John Delaney and the FAI.
The piece covers the last decade of the association and tracks Delaney’s rise to power and his involvement in its many crises during this time.
You could quite easily write a book on the FAI during this time-frame and still […]
Article on TD income in this month’s Village
Monday, February 4th, 2008The latest edition of Village Magazine features an article of mine on TD income for 2007.
The piece breaks down the basic salary, bonuses and expenses of all 166 TDs currently sitting in Dáil Éireann and works out how much each of them earned last year. The figures are sourced from the Oireachtas (via Damien) and […]
Wikipedia shenanigans ar an Roinne Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007This is a story that was supposed to be published in The Irish Times way back when but for some reason or another it wasn’t.
It relates to wikipedia edits made by someone in a Government department and was researched and written back when the joys of the WikiScanner was discovered by everyone.
To the best of […]
Don’t be a loser, get a social life (SBP - 18th Nov. 2007)
Sunday, November 18th, 2007Here’s a transcript of my article from the Media & Marketing section of The Sunday Business Post on marketing and social networking; found in today’s edition:
Pushing your products successfully on sites such as Myspace.com, Facebook.com and Bebo.com takes a savvy approach, writes Adam Maguire.
Social networking sites offer huge potential to companies willing to take them […]
Light and lively laptops (Buyers’ Guide, CiB, SBP - 4th Nov 2007)
Sunday, November 4th, 2007Today’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 week […]







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