Piaras Kelly PR - Public Relations in Ireland

I recently attended the launch of a series of videos produced by the IIEA on different aspects of EU policy. The series covers the Lisbon Treaty; Justice & Home Affairs policy; Climate Change policy; EU Enlargement policy; European Security & Defense Policy; and Business & Markets. Simple and easy to understand, I’d recommend viewing them given that in the [...]

PFSK links to a video interview with Henry Jenkins by the Guardian at SXSW 09 discussing what we can learn from gaming. The interview is viewable below, but the few sentences that stand out for me are:

Most education is about the person who can learn by themselves and know everything. Most forms of [...]

Thanks to Jason Roe for making weekend repairs to the website after my site got hacked last week. Cannot recommend him enough so please visit his website if you’re interested in web design, development or SEO. Jason took time out of his weekend to upgrade WordPress for me and fix the affected posts.
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Couple of readers have pointed out to me that the RSS feed of this blog has been hacked so some of you are receiving spam. Apologies about this, looking into sourcing someone into updating my blog. If you’d like to offer your services please leave a comment

The Irish Association for Emergency Medicine (IAEM) has urged people to keep the name and telephone number of their next-of-kin on their mobile phone under the heading ICE (In Case of Emergency). The system, conceived in the UK, is now in use in a number of countries. The IAEM said all of its members have [...]

For once I’ve managed to benefit from free giveaways online. Thanks to Daragh Doyle, I’ve scored two tickets to Iron Man at the Coca-Cola Cinemagic Film & Television Festival. The festival lineup itself looks great and were it not for the combination of work and the return leg of Manchester United vs Barcelona, [...]

Do - Paddy Courtney is doing his first solo show in Vicar Street on 12 April. I had the misfortune to go to the Podge & Rodge Live Show last year, Paddy opened for them and was the best thing about the night.
Read - ‘We-think: The Power of Mass Creativity‘ by Charles Leadbeater is [...]

Do - St. Patrick’s Day Festival is coming up. What better way to celebrate than the Ceili Mor at Earlsfort Terrace. Click onto the St. Patrick’s Day Festival for a list of all the events planned for the festival.
Read - State, a new monthly music magazine, hits newstands on Thursday. It remains [...]

Do - Go to the Lightwave exhibition in the newly opened Science Gallery in Trinity college. The exhibition features work by Willie Williams, best known for his concert production work with U2, an outdoor Pong game and Light Tracer, an interactive system that uses a variety of light sources to allow you to create [...]

Have a go at Kung Fu Elections. If you really want to see dirty tricks, watch Hilary go one-on-one with Obama Mortal Kombat style.
For what it’s worth, my money is on McCain to be the next president.

Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to subscribe for alerts for new material from artists that are in your music library?

In IIiiiii

Words from a wise taxi driver…
Communism is having nothing, but having everything.
Capitalism is having everything, but having nothing.

David Byrne from Talking Heads discusses the future of the music industry in Wired. It’s a must read, if alone for the fact that artists make less money from iTunes han they do from the traditional route of selling CDs.

The issue of transparency for charities rose its head again over the weekend. Reporting in the Irish Times (subscription required), Paul Cullen, Consumer Affairs correspondent, wrote about the actual amount from the sale price of Charity Christmas Cards that goes towards their intended cause. In some cases as little as 10 per cent [...]

Once regarded as the daily source for Irish culture, media news, gossip, Blogorrah is now officially dead as a new site, The Chancer, has stepped up to take its place. Previous contributors from Blogorrah are involved in the project by all accounts, so best of luck to them. The site has its finger [...]

I am one of many Irishmen that is eagerly anticipating getting his grubby little paws on an iPhone next year when it finally launches in the Emerald Isle, but my attention was grabbed by another piece of innovation when reading John Naughton’s blog the other day - the LifeStraw.
From Cnet:
People can safely drink from polluted [...]

Sorry for the shameless client plug, but seeing as this is a fantastic prize I think it’s worth the mention.
Science Week Ireland have Zero Gravity flights and a trip to Las Vegas for two up for grabs this year for the Science Week Ireland 2007 competition. This is the experience that Stephen Hawking was [...]

Haven’t posted in a while due to a hectic work schedule. Just after launching Halo 3, the entertainment event of the year, in Ireland last week. Expect a slew of posts next week as I try to catch up on the news from the past couple of weeks. In the meantime here’s [...]

I’m a bit late chipping in my 2 cents about the turban row between the Sikh community and the Garda Siochana, Ireland’s police force. I can understand the Garda Siochana’s position on the subject - when a Garda knocks on your door all you should see is the badge and nothing else that might [...]

A man walks into a grocery store and the sales assistant behind the counter greets him by his first name, places his daily order on the counter and helps him with the bags to his car. The man smiles to himself about what a wonderful shopping experience he just had.
It’s a pretty positive customer [...]

An Irish politician has jumped on the bandwagon of the Simpsons Movie and is calling for the Irish premier of the film to take place in his home town of Springfield, Tallaght. Full release:
Call for ‘the Simpsons’ Irish premiere to be held in Springfield, Tallaght - O’Connor
Local Fianna Fáil TD, Charlie O’Connor, is calling [...]

Got a bit of a shock reading the Evening Herald today to find out that Eddie Hobbs had seen the blog post about our observation in the office that Eddie Hobbs seemed to be styling himself on Count Von Count. The Evening Herald had an article making a joke of it with Eddie Hobbs [...]

Censorship seems like such a foreign concept until it jumps up and bites you in the ass. I discovered this first hand this week when I sent my father, who works in China, an email. The email contained a link to a story I thought would be of interest to him. The [...]

The Paddy Valley Tour has 17 people signed up so far to visit Silicon Valley in December in order to showcase products and to meet investors in the spiritual home of IT.
The organisers are looking advice on the following points, if you can help them with any of there queries please give feedback here.
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