Yearly Archives: 2014

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Neil McDonnell of FTA Ireland addressed the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Transport and Communications this morning to relay his concerns on Eircode, the new address system that is to be implemented in Ireland.

“Eircode is a bad postcode…Two adjacent poperties will have different randomly assigned eircodes…Eircode will impose a significant cost on SMEs in Ireland with no tangible benefit…As a national postcode however, Eircode lacks vision, imagination, ambition and most of all, practicality.”

Meanwhile…

RUN!

Previously: Decrypting The Irish Postcode Saga

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From Dublin digital design team EightyTwenty.

Cathal Gillen writes:

This is a campaign we (eightytwenty) created for the Immigration Council of Ireland. It’s one of the first campaigns globally of this nature on Tinder, and raises awareness about the crimes behind sex trafficking and prostitution using Tinder profiles to tell a story about victims of trafficking. There are a large number of these profiles live on Tinder at the moment and feedback from guys viewing has been great…

Immigration Council of Ireland

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Ian Bailey (right) with partner Jules Thomas and solicitor Frank Buttimer

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Ian Bailey’s legal team lay out their opening statements in the High Court this morning as his civil action against the State, the Garda Commissioner and Attorney General gets under way.

Via Vivienne Traynor and Philip Boucher-Hayes

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Wi-fi signal this morning (top). Web Summit founder, Paddy Cosgrave (above), opening the second day of the event in the RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4

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Graph via feebe this morning.

Previously: Who Took The Web From The Web Summit

Desperate House Wi Fi

Pic: Patrick Kennedy

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Yesterday’s KBC Ireland/ESRI Consumer Sentiment Index

Uh oh.

Robert Shortt, of RTÉ’s Prime Time, writes:

Buried beneath the blizzard of boominess, the monthly KBC Bank Ireland/ESRI Consumer Sentiment Index for October produced a peculiar result.

It found ‘a surprising and substantial decline in October’ in consumer confidence [from 92.8 in September to 85.5 in October]. In fact, so surprising and substantial, that the authors of the Index speculate that it could be down to ‘a statistical blip’.

Of course, it could be the now familiar gap in perception between what people hear about the economy and what they feel (or don’t feel) in their pockets. Or maybe it’s the onset of winter. Or maybe it’s something in the water.

Prime Time’s Robert Shortt Blogs About the Latest Economic News (RTÉ)

Water charges uncertainty plays role in fall in consumer sentiment: KBC (RTE News, November 4, 2014)