Back from Ireland

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Keane back for Ireland

Keane back for Ireland 04/13/2004 11:29 AM
Roy Keane makes himself available for the Republic of Ireland, two years after walking out on the team.

"I am of Ireland, and the Holy Land of
Ireland..."

"I am of Ireland, and the Holy Land of
Ireland..." 04/11/2004 07:39 PM
CELT, the Corpus of Electronic Texts, "brings the wealth of Irish literary and historical culture to the Internet, for the use and benefit of everyone worldwide. It has a searchable online database consisting of contemporary and historical texts from many areas, including literature and the other arts." It has texts in Irish, Latin, Anglo-Norman French, and English, ranging from the annals of the fifth century to the Agreeme nt reached in the Multi-Party Negotiations in Northern Ireland of 1998. "Great my glory/ I that bore Cuchulainn the valiant..."

Off to Ireland

Off to Ireland 06/05/2005 11:55 PM

I'm off to Ireland for pretty much the rest of the month. I'll be traveling with my family around the south-west of the island. There will be no updates while I'm gone, as it's a real honest-to-goodness vacation, and I'm ready for it! I hope to take lots of pictures while I'm there, so look for some greeny photo goodness when I return.

O2 Ireland Turns on 3G

O2 Ireland Turns on 3G 12/15/2003 10:32 AM
Unstrung.com Dec 15 2003 8:53AM ET

Photos from Ireland

Photos from Ireland 06/17/2005 03:29 PM

Ireland is green. Green, green, green. Such a cliche, but it really is unbelievably green. Here are some photos I took on a recent trip there:

We spent a little more than a week in southwestern Ireland, mostly in Cork, Kerry, and Clare. We actually drove through Limerick with a man from Nantucket, which if we'd been less jetlagged, we would have thought was more funny than we did. There was traditional Irish music in a pub in Dingle and Ennis. Some amazing porridge (no, really!). It rained a lot, but you got used to it after awhile. I'd never had a Guinness (fo r strength!) before and I figured the place to have one was in Ireland, so I ordered a half one night at a pub. I could only finish half of it...even a quarter of a pint of stout was too much for a amateur imbiber like myself.

WS-Sanity in Ireland

WS-Sanity in Ireland 05/11/2004 11:42 PM
People have asked why, since I joined Sun, I’ve been going on about WS-this and WS-that. In part it’s just because I still care about all things XML. But mostly, it’s because in late 2003, before I came here, I had an eye-opening experience that changed how I think about Service-Oriented Architectures and Web Services. I think that the future is in plain sight, and that’s because it’s being built right now by the Government of Ireland, and it’s called reachservices...

Atlantis = Ireland?

Atlantis = Ireland? 08/07/2004 05:11 PM
Atlantis has been found, and it's... Ireland? So says Swedish geographer Ulf Erlingsson, who thinks the sinking of the island in Plato's story may have referred to the inundation of Dogger Bank, which connected Britain and Denmark. Sorry Spain. [Via MonkeyFilter.]

Bush to invade Ireland

Bush to invade Ireland 08/07/2004 08:54 AM
Reuters reports that a Swedish scientist claims that Ireland is the lost island of Atlantis. And The Weekly World News, the only American news journal that dares to tell the truth (except perhaps The Onion), last week revealed that President Bush plans on invading Atlantis to prevent them from developing WMDs. You do the math....

Intel Upgrades Ireland Fab

Intel Upgrades Ireland Fab 05/19/2004 05:43 PM
Intel Corp. told shareholders Wednesday that it would expand its Ireland manufacturing facility to enable 65-nm manufacturing processes to begin there by the year 2006.

REM announce UK and Ireland tour

REM announce UK and Ireland tour 09/16/2004 05:34 AM
US band REM announce a tour of the UK and Ireland as they perform a secret concert in London's Piccadilly.

N. Ireland Talks End With No Agreement
(AP)

N. Ireland Talks End With No Agreement
(AP) 09/18/2004 12:50 PM
AP - High-pressure talks among rival Northern Ireland parties ended Saturday with no agreement to revive a Catholic-Protestant administration, but British Prime Minister Tony Blair insisted that a deal "historic in its meaning" may yet be achieved.

Ireland is never Netherlands for McAfee

Ireland is never Netherlands for McAfee 07/20/2004 06:31 AM
Taxtastic

N&B appoints Ireland manager

N&B appoints Ireland manager 01/17/2004 11:21 PM
The Scotsman Jan 18 2004 2:40AM GMT

lower DSL prices in Ireland?

lower DSL prices in Ireland? 01/16/2004 11:27 AM

Karlin reports< /a> that:

Eircom said today that it has applied to ComReg to further lower the price of its main broadband DSL product, from Euro 54.45 to Euro 39.99 monthly (both incl VAT). Good news; I can't imagine ComReg will refuse.

(That's from USD 70 to USD 50 at current exchange rates, for those on the other side of the Atlantic!). Good news indeed. Fingers crossed...

handset prices in ireland

handset prices in ireland 01/07/2004 07:02 PM

A few months back I commente d on the user UNfriendly behavior of mobile operators in Ireland when it came to phone upgrades. I put an upgrade out of my mind for a while (since, quite simply, I couldn't afford it), but today as I passed by a carphonewarehouse store I saw that they had the SonyEricsson T610 at "only" Euro 139 with a contract with Vodafone. I thought "Hey, maybe prices have gone down for some mysterious reason" and I went into the store to check things out.

Long story short, I was wrong. Prices are still outrageous. Subsequent visits to O2 and Vodafone stores confirmed that this was indeed the case.

How outrageous? Consider, as just one example, the price for the Nokia 3650. Vodafone and O2 pricing is basically Euro 300 (= 380 USD, or 210 British Pounds). Both with contract, upgrade prices are exactly the same, although in some cases they might knock off Euro 10 of the price if a) you've been a customer for more than 2 years and b) you've spent more than Euro 1000 in calls during that period. As a comparison, the prices of carphonewarehouse UK for the Nokia 3660 starts at 80 GBP, that is, Euro 100. Pricing in the US is similar, as is in all other European countries that I could find. That is, price here is basically more than double (and depending on the contract, three times as much) as that of anywhere else. SIM-free phones are similarly more expensive than in other countries. The Nokia N-Gage (which is probably the most "consumerish" device you could find, a device that, given its target, cries out for a low price) is priced at Euro 300 here and found in other countries at half the price. Older handsets, like the Nokia 6310, still sell here at Euro 200 apiece with contract.

Even more, note that when I quoted the carphonewarehouse UK price it was for the Nokia 3660, not the 3650. Why? Because they don't even sell the 3650 anymore. So while the 3650 is already being phased out in some places, in Ireland they only started selling it less than two months ago.

The point of this rant: I wish that the much-vaunted European integration would take hold in the supposedly fluid and borderless market that is consumer electronics. Even if Ireland's market is too small to sustain low prices, Europe as a whole shouldn't be, and prices would be, if not the same, at least roughly equivalent across borders. Now, that's not much to ask for is it? :-)

O2 Ireland switches on 3G network

O2 Ireland switches on 3G network 12/15/2003 05:53 AM
OnBusiness Dec 15 2003 5:26AM ET

Transas set for Ireland base

Transas set for Ireland base 12/08/2003 03:29 PM
Scotsman Online Dec 8 2003 12:53PM ET

O2 test runs 3G in Ireland

O2 test runs 3G in Ireland 12/15/2003 10:29 AM
25 guinea pigs

Google recruit in Ireland

Google recruit in Ireland 04/14/2005 01:39 AM
Irish Post Apr 14 2005 5:45AM GMT

Computer Firm to Set Up Hq in Ireland

Computer Firm to Set Up Hq in Ireland 12/05/2003 05:36 AM
Scotsman Online Dec 5 2003 4:48AM ET

Ireland Leery of 3G Phones

Ireland Leery of 3G Phones 06/16/2004 05:13 AM
Wired News Jun 16 2004 9:36AM GMT

Intel opens new Fab 24 in Ireland

Intel opens new Fab 24 in Ireland 06/15/2004 07:03 AM
PC Pro Jun 15 2004 11:30AM GMT

Floridians Bracing for the Arrival of
Back-to-Back Tropical Storms (Los
Angeles Times)

Floridians Bracing for the Arrival of
Back-to-Back Tropical Storms (Los
Angeles Times) 08/12/2004 06:07 AM
Los Angeles Times - FORT MYERS, Fla. — As rare back-to-back tropical storms — one a hurricane, the other likely to become one — churned Wednesday toward Florida, Gov. Jeb Bush declared a statewide emergency and mobilized the National Guard. Tourists were told to evacuate the low-lying Florida Keys.

Ireland wants Euro ban on buying sex
(Reuters)

Ireland wants Euro ban on buying sex
(Reuters) 01/22/2004 02:10 AM
Reuters - Ireland, current president of the European Union, says it will propose a ban on paying for sex throughout the EU but is holding out little hope of agreement among the 15-nation bloc.

Bank of Ireland Fouls Up Accounts (AP)

Bank of Ireland Fouls Up Accounts (AP) 03/31/2005 02:56 PM
AP - The Bank of Ireland apologized Thursday for running the same set of electronic payments twice, a goof that brought fleeting joy, or anguish, to an estimated 60,000 households and businesses nationwide.

FOAF conference in Galway, Ireland

FOAF conference in Galway, Ireland 09/01/2004 06:18 AM

I'm here in a quaint university town named Galway, Ireland - which is Europe's furthest west city. It's got some old Spanish ruins and lots of frsh faced Irish semantic engineers.

Our hosts are SWAD and DERI - and there are loads of semantic web/W3C types here - all discussing how they're using FOAF.

I'm here to talk about and show FOAFnet - an industry consortium we've got to support FOAF in commercial systems.

This is the first international FOAF confab. There's folks here from Japan, Arabia, Eastern Europe and all over Europe and the U.S.

HP builds inkjet R&D centre in
Ireland

HP builds inkjet R&D centre in
Ireland 09/03/2004 04:34 AM
€21m investment

Bank of Ireland apologizes for mix-up
over payments

Bank of Ireland apologizes for mix-up
over payments 04/04/2005 11:46 PM
globetechnology.com Apr 5 2005 4:19AM GMT

Rugby: O'Driscoll blow for Ireland

Rugby: O'Driscoll blow for Ireland 01/10/2004 06:50 PM
Brian O'Driscoll could miss the start of the Six Nations with a hamstring injury.

HP builds inkjet R&D centre in Ireland

HP builds inkjet R&D centre in Ireland 09/03/2004 06:37 AM
The Register Sep 3 2004 10:21AM GMT

O2 Ireland rolls out limited 3G service

O2 Ireland rolls out limited 3G service 12/15/2003 08:08 AM
Irish Times Dec 15 2003 6:33AM ET

Ireland domain registry CEO resigns

Ireland domain registry CEO resigns 11/01/2003 08:33 AM
Sorry chapter comes to a close, but will things change?

Record $39M Robbed From N. Ireland
Bank (AP)

Record $39M Robbed From N. Ireland
Bank (AP) 12/22/2004 01:21 AM
AP - In one of the world's biggest robberies, thieves took the families of two top bankers hostage and forced the bosses to help them steal more than $39 million from the vaults of a Belfast bank's main office, authorities said Tuesday.

Apple launches iTunes Ireland

Apple launches iTunes Ireland 01/06/2005 05:56 PM
Apple’s revolutionary iTunes Music Store is now available to customers based in Ireland. The Irish store features the same innovative features and breakthrough pricing of €0.99 per song that have made iTunes the number one online music service in the world. With Apple’s legendary ease of use, seamless integration with iPod and groundbreaking personal use rights, the iTunes Music Store is the best way for PC and Mac users to legally discover, purchase and download music online.

Ireland Cracks Down on Internet Fraud
(AP)

Ireland Cracks Down on Internet Fraud
(AP) 09/23/2004 03:42 PM
AP - Ireland has become the first country on earth to cut off direct-dialed calls to entire nations in a bid to crack down on Internet-based fraud.

3G Ireland passes with flying colours

3G Ireland passes with flying colours 12/16/2003 02:52 PM
Net 4 Nowt Dec 16 2003 12:51PM ET

Ireland Cracks Down on Online Scammers

Ireland Cracks Down on Online Scammers 09/23/2004 05:20 AM

O2 Ireland turns on its 3G mobile
service

O2 Ireland turns on its 3G mobile
service 12/15/2003 11:35 PM
Irish Times Dec 15 2003 10:30PM ET

Ireland Cracks Down on Internet Fraud

Ireland Cracks Down on Internet Fraud 09/23/2004 04:03 PM
SiliconValley.com Sep 23 2004 7:57PM GMT
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