Bernie Goldbach, Tech Journo, Irish Examiner: Irish

Enterprise Ireland baiting game

GARRINGREEN HOTSPOT -- The Irish Small and Medium Enterprise Association points out something I spotted three years ago--Enterprise Ireland is fixated on the cause of a few companies and makes anybody else jump through hoops to get funding.

Cows parade in Dublin

UNISON ie -- Cows now roam the streets of Dublin.

Irish film training stacks up well

GARRINGREEN HOTSPOT -- Irish moviemakers have the highest standards of training in the world.

Irish graduates finding it harder to get a job

HEA -- The boom times are over for Irish third level graduates who are finding the jobs market tougher going.

Boosting employment with ICT in Ireland

GARRINGREEN HOTSPOT -- The number employed in the indigenous ICT sector in Ireland could double to 60,000 by 2010 if the Government and industry adopt certain key recommendaitons, according to ICT Ireland.

DSL for the man in the street

GARRINGREEN HOTSPOT -- The best news for Irish Internet users in 2003 is that high-speed broadband service is available in most parts of the Republic, now that Eircom and EsatBT both offer DSL connectivity.

Aircoach with mobile hotspots

GARRINGREEN HOTSPOT -- One of Dublin's most lucrative bus routes, the 46A, will face competition from Aircoach's newly launched route from Leopardstown to Dublin Airport.

Ireland appealing as a tech place

EUROCOM -- Ireland came out tops as the country a sample of European tech executives think is most likely to become the tech centre/Silicon Valley of Europe.

DataPrivacy.ie is excellent asset

DATA PRIVACY ie -- The Data Protection Commissioner's website, DataPrivacy.ie, is exemplary in posting new information and press releases immediately upon issue.

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Best student website in Ireland

SMEDIA -- Ireland's student media awards happened yesterday and the Students' Union from the National University of Ireland in Galway won the award for best website.

Students' Union, NUI Galway

Well-paid Irish workforce

GARRINGREEN HOTSPOT -- Most of Ireland's young and well-educated workforce has grown up and is used to being paid among the highest salaries in Europe.

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Irish consumer complaints

GARRINGREEN HOTSPOT -- The European Consumer Centre in Dublin processed 9500 consumer complaints in 2002.

Irish government hiding the process of government

GARRINGREEN HOTSPOT -- It bothers me that the Irish government is sheltering its briefing papers for parliamentary questions from the public.

Betdaq's online betting success

TRIBUNE ie -- Dermot Desmond's online betting exchange has won a 25% share of the global market.

Matthew Magee: "Betdaa's gamble pays off as punters place €1bn worth of bets online"
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Booking holidays from television

TRIBUNE ie -- Irish firms Datalex and Digisoft.tv have collobaroated on a technology that lets television viewers book holidays directly through their TV sets.

Son of Iraqi Information Minister worked in Dublin during Iraq War

GARRINGREEN HOTSPOT -- An Iraqi doctor based at Dublin's Beaumont Hospital is the son of Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, the Iraqi information minister whose outlandish briefings to reporters in Baghdad earned him the nickname Comical Ali.

Wind power for electricity

GARRINGREEN HOTSPOT -- THe world has to sustain itself with energy within the next 40 years.

Spam for SMS text

GARRINGREEN HOTSPOT -- Don't text Dublin Spin FM if you don't want to get spam in return.

Footfall down in Dublin

GRAFTON STREET, DUBLIN -- It's noticeably quieter along Dublin's prime shopping areas this year.

Proressive Democrats punching above their weight

GARRINGREEN HOTSPOT -- Kilkenny-Carlow TD John McGuinness makes the front page of The Irish Independent for his comment that Fianna Fail is allowing the Progressive Democrats to punch above their weight in the Irish Cabinet.