Category: News
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League of Ireland Round Up
On the penultimate weekend of the Airtricity Premier League, there were wins for Bray, Dundalk, Sligo and Shamrock Rovers. Bray won away to Bohs thanks to a Kieran Waters goal in the 76’ minute. The win was long overdue for the Wicklow men…
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GAA round Up
There was lots of club action across Dublin and Ireland over the weekend. In the Dublin SFC there were wins for St. Jude’s, Ballymun, Ballyboden and St. Vincent’s. St Jude’s overcame Parnells on a score line of 1-12 to 1-9 Ballymun-Kickhams advanced to…
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Eircom releases ‘eVision’ to rival UPC and Sky TV services
Eircom has launched its new television service ‘eVision’ to its 450,000 fibre-powered broadband users. The new television service has been introduced by the company to rival that of UPC and Sky. The introduction of Eircom to the television market makes the company the…
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The news we want you to read
It begs the question why a technology entrepreneur like Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of amazon.com, would be interested in gripping the controls of the flailing pages of the Washington Post. Bezos is a techie, graduating in 1986 with a degree in computer…
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Wallis Ltd Closing on Grafton St with 45% Cut in Redundancy
It was a sad day on Grafton Street today as former employees of Wallis Retail (Ireland) Ltd picketed outside its doors in objection to the closure of the chain store. Tomorrow, 19th October, Wallis, which is a part of the Arcadia multiples Ireland Group,…
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Twitter to be Wall Street’s hottest tech debut since Facebook
The online social networking and microblogging site is to flood the stock market next month when its shares will be made available on Wall Street. The popular website, launched in 2006, has an estimated net value of between $12 billion and $15 billion.…
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Anti-social behaviour still a problem on Red Line Luas
Red Line Luas users are still subjected to frequent anti-social incidents, despite additional security and Gardaí patrols. Though that particular Luas line has become infamous in recent years, the frequency with which incidents take place (of which only a fraction are actually reported)…
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Out of control car kills Irish teenager in New York
Last Friday evening, Kalie Gill, a 15-year old Irish teenager from Co. Leitrim was knocked down and killed by a car in Coyne Park in Yonkers. Kalie and her sister had been attending a church carnival, when, just after 9pm., a car driven…
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Budget Day met with lacklustre protest
By Greg Synnott, Michael Coleman and Saoirse Ivory A series of tax adjustments and cuts were announced by Minister Michael Noonan in yesterday’s budget. The City were outside government buildings when the announcement was made. The €2.5 billion plan included €900 million in…
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Is the Irish Economy Finally back on track?
There has been much talk in recent weeks and months to suggest that Ireland may finally be on the up and up, after many years of foundering in the mires of economic recession. In the past month Ireland’s rate of recovery has been…
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