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EamonRyan

  1. @delarivier No not as bad as I feared.
  2. I voted yes, for some of the reasons set out here karlwhelan.com/blog/?p=466 and because I think working to build our Union is the best way ahead
  3. Turnout in Our Ladies Clonskeagh Parish National School was 49.6% at 9pm. It was 53.1% at the same time in the last referendum.
  4. Sir. Put down that word. Now step away from the keyboard: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
  5. The series of talks on media in a digital world continues on 14th of June next iiea.com/events/leading…. Open to all, who register in advance.
  6. This is his recent talk at the iiea.com/events/how-con… - the q&a delved into the topical issue of copyright, and is available via podcast link.
  7. @Henryjenkins spent two decades at MIT studying the digital revolution. He is now a leading thinker on the effect it will have on Hollywood
  8. @Karl_Cronin count me out for feudalism 2.0 but in for a new social welfare model that gives people more freedom to work as they see fit.
  9. @Karl_Cronin Who said anything about property coming before rights? I think 'Liberal' politics can be understood in several different ways.
  10. We can work with our Scottish and UK colleagues to ensure that the 'periphery' becomes the centre of a new clean energy economy for Europe.
  11. As this Scottish report shows, we have the best resource (page 4) and our west coast has the most economic sites (p103) esru.strath.ac.uk/Documents/MSc_…
  12. There are other irish companies trying to tap our tidal and wave energy openhydro.com/movie/subsea_d… wavebob.com/category/video… oceanenergy.ie/gallery/
  13. This is Mark Hennessy writing about @Acquamarinepower irishtimes.com/newspaper/fina… and this is their latest scots/irish machine youtube.com/watch?v=GLh1kH…
  14. Later at 10pm on @RTERadio1 a political moratorium makes space for Seamus Heaney to talk about our isle full of noises ria.ie/events/events-…
  15. I hope that thehardground.com play their single 'pawn' on Pat Kenny's show just before 12 on @todaypkRTE
  16. @Joan_Burton_ Far from being communist I would have described it as a libertarian solution.
  17. @MaybeRory Don't believe the current system serves us well, as it puts obstacles in the way of people devising their own best way of working
  18. Anne Ryan, the author of that article in @thejournal_ie wrote this book enoughisplenty.net two years ago.
  19. It's time we moved to a 'basic income' model of social welfare, avoiding the dependency traps in our present system. thejournal.ie/readme/column-…