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

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Rescued rowers to land in Ireland

Rescued rowers to land in Ireland 08/08/2004 11:04 PM
Four Britons whose boat split in half as they tried to break a world Atlantic rowing record are due to reach dry land.

Bomb Scare Forces U.S. Jet to Land in
Ireland

Bomb Scare Forces U.S. Jet to Land in
Ireland 01/18/2004 08:11 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 18 2004 8:44PM GMT

Bomb Hoax Forces U.S. Jet to Land in
Ireland

Bomb Hoax Forces U.S. Jet to Land in
Ireland 01/18/2004 10:25 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 19 2004 2:38AM GMT

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.

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...

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.

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.]

O2 Ireland Turns on 3G

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

Back from Ireland

Back from Ireland 06/05/2005 11:55 PM

I'm back from a lovely but very rainy visit to Ireland. It was a very different vacation for me, as I'm not so used to driving around so much. Most of my trips involve visits to cities where I stay in one place and travel by subway or foot. I managed to avoid car travel for one day though and took a 14 mile hike/walk over some pretty green rugged terrain that involved close encounters with many sheep. It was long but fun. The south-west of Ireland is beautiful, and I'd like to return again and see all the stuff I felt like we missed. I'll post photos in a week or so, once I have time to go over them properly. Now, to catch up on all that email...

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.

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.

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

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

Transas set for Ireland base

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

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

O2 test runs 3G in Ireland

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

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? :-)

N&B appoints Ireland manager

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

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....

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...

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.

Google recruit in Ireland

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

Ireland is never Netherlands for McAfee

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

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

New Tech Surge in Ireland, and It Feels
Like '99 Again

New Tech Surge in Ireland, and It Feels
Like '99 Again 06/16/2004 09:02 PM
Ireland's $121 billion economy, which rode the crest and crash of the dot-com wave, is once again pinning its hopes on technology investments.

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 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.

N Ireland murder victim named

N Ireland murder victim named 06/20/2004 04:16 PM
A man abducted by a gang in County Armagh and later found dead by a roadside has been named by police.

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.

High security for Bush in Ireland

High security for Bush in Ireland 06/25/2004 03:54 AM
A massive security operation is under way in Ireland ahead of President Bush's arrival for talks with EU leaders.

Rugby: O'Connell to lead Ireland

Rugby: O'Connell to lead Ireland 02/10/2004 09:00 AM
Munster's Paul O'Connell to captain Ireland against France while Ronan O'Gara gets fly-half spot.

Northern Ireland touts low IT wages

Northern Ireland touts low IT wages 05/12/2004 07:09 AM
Forget Bangalore, come to Belfast

Introduction of Electronic Voting to
Ireland

Introduction of Electronic Voting to
Ireland 02/10/2004 02:57 AM
European and local elections will be held in Ireland on Friday, June 11th 2004. These will be the first elections in which a system of electronic voting will be used across the whole country. The Government has already spent €10 million on not only preparation for the deployment of this system, one to which many people are now voicing their opposition, but also on an advertising campaign aimed at calming people's worries about the proposed change.

Bush in Ireland for EU-U.S. Summit
(Reuters)

Bush in Ireland for EU-U.S. Summit
(Reuters) 06/25/2004 05:30 PM
Reuters - President Bush flew into Ireland Friday for a summit with European Union leaders which has sparked protests and rekindled anger over American policy in Iraq and the Middle East.

Vodafone Ireland launches 3G service

Vodafone Ireland launches 3G service 06/29/2004 08:44 AM
RTE Online Jun 29 2004 1:19PM GMT

HP builds inkjet R&D centre in
Ireland

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

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
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