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December 17, 2008

Libertas urges people to vote ‘no’ to Irish Blog Awards

Arnold Corns
Posted by : Arnold Corns
Filed under : Irish News, Tech & Web

For four years the Irish Blog Awards have been a raucous, and often nude, celebration of the best of the Irish ‘blogosphere’.
From all corners of the country bloggers of all shapes and sizes converge on Dublin to drink pints, tell jokes about UNIX and swap Wordpress upgrade tips. Secondary to this is an elaborate awards [...]


October 20, 2008

Rags to riches: Ireland’s latest dot com millionaire

Arnold Corns
Posted by : Arnold Corns
Filed under : Irish News, Tech & Web

It might seem like just an ordinary bedroom in an ordinary suburban Dublin house. It’s somewhat gloomy, a Star Wars poster on the wall, crunchy Kleenex littering the floor and the effervescent glow of the PC screen illuminating barely a quarter of the space.
But from these humble surroundings Colin Doyle, an unassuming 31 year old, [...]


September 16, 2008

Irish blogger likes everything

Arnold Corns
Posted by : Arnold Corns
Filed under : Tech & Web

In a move that has shocked large sections of the Irish blogging community, one blogger has broken from the norm and declared himself to be ‘100% positive about everything!’.
It’s a far cry from the bitter, tired ranting that spews from the keyboards of the country’s most prominent keyboard warriors but Bernard Byrne is unapologetic about [...]