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Irish Life & Permanent plc will cease as the issuer of prepaid Visa credit card effective July 4. 3v was the first prepaid Visa card released on the Irish market in 2006. In an email to customers 3v said: With effect from 4th July 2011, Irish Life & Permanent plc, will no longer be the [...]

I was speaking at a higher education conference this week called ‘Re-inventing the University’ which was jointly hosted by Dublin City University and Arizona State University (ASU). The conference itself was highly informative and some revoluntionary concepts for higher education were discussed. The ASU President Michael Crow delivered an excellent paper on the formulae ASU [...]

Whether a topic is in the  ’public interest’ is a question that eventually every journalist will ask of themselves. Inevitably during this ethical dilemmas one would either decide that it is and proceed or decide that it is not and let a story lie. What logic was at play in the editorial meeting at TV3 [...]

Well it’s that time of year again, when all us bloggers gaze into the mystic ball and predict what the future holds for us all in 2010. Just a note on my 2009 predictions, most of them were right, some of them were also contradictory but hey! On to 2010: Irish Politics and economy The [...]

This morning the first Luas Trams were put on the extended C1 Red Line – taking the Luas from Connolly Station to the O2. Testing will continue for a number of weeks. Anyone in the Spencer Dock area will be happy to see this infrastructural project come to an end. The early morning drilling, HGV [...]