- Irish President to open series of Being Young and Irish workshops This Saturday the Irish President, Michael D. Higgins, will open a series of Being Young and Irish workshops that aim to gather ideas and suggestions from Ireland's youth.
- Ireland's Magnet Networks upgrades minimum broadband package speed to 30Mbps Magnet Networks has announced that it has upgraded its minimum offered broadband speed to 30Mbps, up from a previous speed of 5Mbps, and almost ten times greater than the average internet download speed of 3.34Mbps in Ireland.
- Two arrested over Fine Gael website hack, subsequently released without charge Two teenagers were arrested early this morning on suspicion of hacking Fine Gael's website in January of this year and allegedly gaining access to contact details of 2,000 site subscribers. Both males were released without charge a short time ago.
- 44% of Irish population on Facebook [Infographic] Last week we tweeted a few statistics concerning Facebook's user base as a percentage of the Irish population. Now Edelman, a PR company operating in Ireland, has released this infographic confirming that almost 44% of the Irish population are on Facebook.
- NASA satellite image of gorse fires raging across the north and west of Ireland NASA's MODIS Rapid Response, an emergency response system that provides near real-time satellite "thermal anomaly" imagery, has captured this image of gorse fires raging across parts of the north and west of Ireland. The image was taken yesterday afternoon as strong winds and prolonged recent dry spells have driven gorse, bog, and forest fires "out of control" in Donegal, Down, Galway, Mayo and parts of Fermanagh, Monaghan and Tyrone.
- Twestival 2011 kicking off in Dublin, Galway and Belfast Twestival 2011 is kicking off right about now across Ireland, bringing Twitter users together in tangible form and raising money for charity in the process. Tonight's Twestival events in Dublin, Galway and Belfast promise to provide entertainment, a chance to meet like-minded people, and of course help their respective causes.
- Kenny’s, Ireland’s largest bookstore “challenging Amazon” Kenny’s bookstore, based in Liosbán, Galway, now boosts up to 6.5 million titles, with a recent statement from Des Kenny, bookstore management, saying: “We’re challenging Amazon”.