Yearly Archives: 2014

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Web Summit founder Paddy Cosgrave addresses wi fi concerns at his tech event and has a ‘go’ at the ‘old dudes’ of the Royal Dublin Society (established 1820) that run the venue and “hold this country back”.

*snaps quill*

Meanwhile…

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“Gavin Thursday; writes

Re; the [Web] summit [wi fi] outage. The RDS can handle up to 20,00 devices but with 20,000 people attending the summit and many of them carrying at least two devices the venue would need to have capacity for 50,000+ devices. Wouldn’t this have been known in advance though?

Anyone?

Fix the wi-fi or Web Summit will leave Ireland, warns founder (BreakingNews)

Wifi at the RDS 

Thanks Laura Gaynor

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“The kind of guys that used to form bands are now starting startups instead”

Bono closes the Web Summit in The RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin this evening.

It’s like the last day of the Spring Show only with more bullshit less agricultural equipment.

Choreography: Official Ireland

Earlier: WTFi?

Via Iaan Van Ne Kerk

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Joan Burton and Enda Kenny this morning at a jobs press conference in government buildings

Tánaiste Joan Burton has not confirmed the remarks she made earlier this week that a family of four adults would pay less than €200 a year in water charges.

Instead, she said in the Dáil her objective and that of the Government was to have a charging regime that is “affordable and where there is clarity and where there is certainty in relation to the pricing structure”.

Wait for it…

Ms Burton pointed to the fundraising dinner that party leader Gerry Adams would attend tonight in New York at $500 (€403) a head. She said that was much more than what an ordinary family would pay for water charges in a year.

Never fails.

Burton fails to confirm €200 water charges for family of four (Irish Times)

(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

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Sinn Féin Deputy Peadar Tóibín threatened to hold up the Workplace Relations Bill 2014 in respect of the dispute at Kishogue, Lucan. The Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Committee are meeting this afternoon to make amendments to the existing legislation.

Bricklayers in Kishogue were reportedly being paid less than €5 per hour.

There are numerous amendments proposed in the Bill and if the deputy so wishes he can call a vote on each amendment which will take up to eight minutes per vote.

Hero or zero?

YOU decide.

Previously: Crane Of Defiance