Yearly Archives: 2017

In the Limerick Leader…

Fintan Walsh reports:

Gardaí will soon be able to use mobile phones to access CCTV footage, record statements and check vehicle registrations, thanks to an app the Limerick division is piloting.

Speaking after a joint policing committee meeting at City Hall, Supt Derek Smart said that the ambitious scheme is “at a very advanced stage” and is being driven by Chief Supt David Sheahan.

Another feature being considered by the gardaí is the installation of CCTV access in garda patrol vehicles.

…Explaining the app’s concept, Supt Smart told the Leader last Friday: “If I am in the patrol car I will be able to check, if I see a car in front of me, I can put the reg number into my phone and I can check it. I don’t have to ring people inside in Henry Street to check it.

“You will be able to do it out and about on the street. There will be all apps built into specific phones in regard to it. It basically replaces the notebook. But it becomes a modern tool as well. You can go back into the station, you dock your phone, you download into the system and it is recorded there.”

New garda app piloted in Limerick (Limerick Leader)

From top: The Toc watch and its co-creator, Will Monaghan

Dublin-based start-up Toc Watch went online recently to fund their hand-wound, Bauhaus-inspired timepieces.

How did that go?

Ian Matthews, of the Irish Entrepreneur Blog, writes:

Will Monaghan, from Trim, Co Meath, along with his co-founder Max Dehne, have achieved something many Irish start ups only dream of. They fully funded their Kickstarter campaign in under 24 hours.

I spoke to Will to hear about his experience of starting Toc Watch and his advice for making your own Irish Kickstarter success story.

No thicks, in fairness.

Irish Kickstarter Success: Interview With Co-Founder of Toc Watch (Irish Entrepreneur Blog)

Toc watch (Kickstarter)

Northumberland Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 just now.

(Thanks Oisín Kane)

UPDATE:

I’m making contact from the An Post Communications Department about the ‘One Job’ post by Chompsky at 12:26pm today.

Rather than being an error, as per the ‘One Job’ caption, a member of the public has peeled away the vinyl advertisement and replaced it, upside down, on the An Post meter box. This has been pointed out in one of the comments below the post by an observant/sensible reader of broadsheet.ie

Meter boxes are An Post property for the collection of Meter Post (from businesses) in that area. So, we consider this activity at best a nuisance and at worst, vandalism, as it’s a cost to our business – in putting it to rights again – which it will be, by tomorrow morning.

While we appreciate knowing about this, we’d rather not give oxygen to, or encourage the defacing of our post and meter boxes….

Sorry all.

 

Via Daft.ie:

This is a cosy single bed, self-contained small flat we have available, 3 months minimum. It is very quiet, away from street noise, so you can get a restful night’s sleep.

Studio apartment, Aughrim Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin 7, €160 per week (Daft.ie)

Meanwhile…

Via Daft.ie:

Nice cosy studio flat now available, currently arranged with double bed, would suit couple or single person. Very quiet, not facing the road. Could be arranged with single bunk bed if that is whats required.

Studio apartment, Aughrim Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin 7, €900 per month (Daft.ie)

Thanks James Long