Social media experts up and down the country today rejoiced at the launch of Google’s new social media product ‘Buzz’.
“We’ve had a mare of a Q1 so far” said Adele Staunton of leading Irish digital media agency Vapidit.ie
“Our portfolio of expertise was waning there for a short while. People had begun to unlock the deep, [...]

Earnest celebrities and well meaning members of the public have today called for new disaster through which they show the world what caring people they are.
At a press conference in Dublin this morning a phalanx of media personalities, actors, musicians and other household names were joined by ordinary people from the street to express their [...]

Under-pressure Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny today secured the backing of his party after the fall-out from the resignation of high profile TD, George Lee.
Serious questions had been raised about Kenny’s ability to continue as leader but after a meeting at Fine Gael HQ this afternoon senior party members came out in support.
“Enda Kenny [...]

Some of the leading figures from the online world are arriving in Ireland to take part in the Dublin Web Summit, which gets under way later today.
More than 400 people are expected to attend the event at Trinity College this evening. Across Ireland web enthusiasts are frantically freeing up enough space on [...]

There were angry scenes in Dail Eireann this afternoon as the opposition labelled the government ‘a bit shit, really’ in the light of new unemployment statistics.
The latest live register figures show that almost every single person in Ireland is now unemployed but Taoiseach Brian Cowen said the country was being ‘led in the right direction’. [...]

Things might be bad in the public sector, but spare a thought for the assholes whose job it is to vomit nauseating slogans into your mind – advertisers. Things are so bad that new outdoor ad stealth-megalith, Bravo Advertising, has taken to advertising itself.
Advertising about advertising – normally the preserve of dreadfully sub-standard national broadcaster [...]

The football world was rocked yesterday as Scottish giants Celtic signed an unknown Dublin amateur just as the transfer window was slamming shut until the summer.
Robert “Robbie” Keane, from Tallaght in South Dublin, signed a 6 month deal with the club with the view to a permanent move in the summer. Speaking to the Irish [...]

The Irish media is abuzz with the news that an anonymous blogger has paid an anonymous celebrity an undisclosed settlement in a libel case.
Details are sketchy at the moment but The Irish Sentinel can exclusively reveal the nuts and bolts of the case without naming names. It stems from a blog post made in the [...]

In light of criticism of the new speed limits arbitrarily applied to Dublin’s streets, Dublin City Council have responded and informed The Irish Sentinel that is just the first in a series of measures to save the lives of Dubliners killed in our capital each year.
“To say some random councillor just thought this up and [...]