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Ireland has appointed a government official with experience at multinational companies as its new data protection commissioner to head up a body which acts as regulator to the likes of Google and Facebook outside North America.

Helen Dixon, currently the Irish Registrar of Companies, spent 11 years working with two U.S. technology firms with their European bases in Ireland, including software company Citrix Systems, according to her LinkedIn profile.

The best breakfast rolls in Portarlington are found next door, probably.

Ample parking.

Train station nearby.

Win win win.

Ireland appoints data protection chief with corporate background (Padraic Halpin, Reuters)

Pic: Google Street View

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On the Dingle peninsula, Co Kerry this evening.

Maria Brosnan writes:

“No sign of the owners of this car at Inch Strand…”

More as we get it.

UPDATE:
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Let that be a lesson to ye all.

Although merciful on this occasion

She can be a cruel mistress the sea.

*pours rum*

Thanks Maria

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Parisian animator Loïc Bramoullé’s extremely impressive scifi short, (made over the course of two years with a tiny budget and the help of his friends) follows a spacewrecked feline making its way across an alien landscape.

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A University of Huddersfield student has proven for the first time what you’ve long suspected to be true – that people with psychopathic tendencies hide how much of a psycho they are to rise to key managerial positions.

Basically, your boss might truly be a psycho.

*cough*

Study says your boss might really be a psycho after all (Newstalk)

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This afternoon

Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary with the first of 180 Boeing 737-800 Next Generation planes (worth $16 billion) ordered by the airline.

Sam writes:

“The aircraft touched down in Dublin Airport after flying from Boeing in Seattle by Ryanair Chief Pilot, Capt Ray Conway. Ryanair will take 20 further 737-800 NG aircraft deliveries between September 2014 and July 2015, which will enable the airline to open more routes and additional frequencies on existing routes for Summer 2015.”

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

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Discouraging but not terribly surprising data collected by the matchmaking website OK Cupid and published in the book Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One’s Looking) by OK Cupid founder (and erstwhile number cruncher) Christian Rudder.

Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me A Spreadsheet (Five Thirty Eight)

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The Dealer writes:

To celebrate the wedding of Dave and Cathy O’Brien from Mayo, some of their friends designed this fantastic bale structure outside the church in Kilmaine, Mayo.

Dearly bale-loved, we are gathered here today… (Irish Farmers Journal)

Thanks Maura Fay

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