ebow crowned as Web Development Company of the Year 2012

At last night’s ICT Excellence Awards held at the Marine Hotel in Dun Laoghaire, the Dublin digital agency ebow beat off stiff competition to scoop the top award for Web Development Company Of The Year. The ICT Excellence Awards is considered the foremost awards for Ireland’s tech industry. It contained 16 categories for which some of Ireland’s most well-known companies were short-listed including IBM, Vodafone, Airtricity, BT, Dell, Deloitte and Microsoft.

These awards are the first ever entered by ebow, which was set up 1999 by David Douglas. This maiden success is recognition of the innovative design and development the creative digital agency has undertaken for its high profile clients in the past year including the GAA, The National Archives and ‘The Moderns’ the online museum of  The Irish Museum For Modern Art.

David Douglas, founder and Managing Director of ebow said: “For our Web Department to win Best Web Development Company of the Year is an honour to me and our team. We’ve worked hard to build ebow into a unique digital agency in Dublin so it’s great to receive recognition for this part of our work with major clients. This was the first ever awards we entered, so to win is an incredible achievement and testament to the hard work my colleagues have undertaken. This award is for them.”

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Announcement: the seminar ‘Remove Your Debt Burden in 2012′ is now fully booked

The ‘Remove Your Debt Burden in 2012′ seminar being held in the Berkeley Court Hotel tomorrow night is now fully booked – details here http://www.republicpr.ie/2012/05/02/remove-debt-burden-2012-seminar-10th-may-2012/

The high demand for this seminar has been quite astounding and highlights how many people in Ireland are suffering with serious financial problems. We had originally estimated for 30 to 50 people, then last week we doubled the room to cater for 100, but now have had to double this again to 200. We are now also taking details of people on a standby list and will be hosting another one shortly.

We apologise if you wanted to attend this seminar, but we will be posting details of the next seminar soon.

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Taekwon-Do celebrates 40 years in Ireland

The world’s most senior Taekwon-Do expert First Grandmaster Ree-Ki-Ha arrives in Dublin to celebrate with a weekend of training with Irish Taekwon-Do students

The famous split kick

Taekwon-do First Grandmaster Rhee-Ki-Ha brick break punch

4^th May, 2012; Dublin, Ireland: This weekend the Republic of Ireland Taekwon-Do Association (RITA) will celebrate four decades of teaching Irish students the most powerful martial art in the world, Korea’s Taekwon-Do, which literally means ‘the way of the hand and foot’. Members from all over the country will be in Dublin for a special two day workshop, which is being led by Korean First Grandmaster Rhee who is back in Ireland for the celebrations and offering a chance to be taught by one of the greats of martial art.

First Grandmaster Rhee is the world’s most senior surviving Taekwon-Do expert and it is a great honour for RITA to host him here. The workshop is also being run by local Taekwon-Do Grandmaster Robert Howard. Only thirteen men (eleven surviving) in the world have ever been promoted to Taekwon-Do Grandmasters by the International Taekwon-Do Federation, based in Vienna; Robert Howard is the first European ever to be promoted to Grandmaster, which is 9^th Degree Black Belt.

President of RITA Grandmaster Robert Howard says: “I started training with First Grandmaster Rhee in 1969 and have enjoyed every minute of the past 40 years. He was trained by General Choi, the founder of International Taekwon-Do Federation, who described him as the best student ever and he was the first person General Choi ever made a Grandmaster hence the title ‘First Grandmaster’. When we originally contacted him he was working in Coventry and he used to fly in to train us in Dublin once a month. The days were very long and tiring without a break. There was nothing he couldn’t do – he used to spar with four of us at one time and his kicks were impossible to block! He’s 74 now and I’m 73 so we’re looking forward to another forty years of doing Taekwon-Do together.”

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Remove Your Debt Burden in 2012 – seminar 10th May, 2012.

Next week two of my clients Anthony Joyce & Co and IrishBankruptcyUK.ie will host a seminar in Dublin entitled ‘Remove You Debt Burden in 2012′ where the issues of debt resolution, personal insolvency and bankruptcy will be discussed and audience members will be given the chance to ask extensive questions.

Details of the seminar is here: http://www.irishbankruptcyuk.com/invitation.html

The King’s Hospital in The Irish Times

An prominent article by The Irish Times’s Science Editor Dick Ahlstrom featuring The King’s Hospital appeared on page 6 of the paper today, which also included a backlink to their website (a very valuable boost to their SEO). Details have also been added to Erwin Schrodinger’s Wikipedia page (again a boost to SEO as well as profile).

The text of the article is below or it can be read here http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0418/1224314875355.html

The full Erwin Schrodinger manuscript can be read here http://www.kingshospital.ie/thekingshospital/Files/Schroedinger%20Bluecoat.pdf

‘Quantum humour’ beams back after absence

Prof Jonathan Coleman: now owns Schrödinger’s typescript

DICK AHLSTROM, Science Editor

AN ORIGINAL manuscript written in Dublin by Nobel Prize- winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger has resurfaced after almost 60 years.

The short manuscript was prepared in 1955 for publication in the King’s Hospital school magazine. The five-page manuscript reveals an unexpectedly humorous side to the Austrian-born scientist, who also held Irish citizenship.

Schrödinger is viewed as one of the fathers of quantum mechanics. For the general public he is perhaps better known for his attempt to explain his theories using “Schrödinger’s Cat”, a cat that can be both alive and dead at the same time.

His willingness to write for the school’s magazine, Blue Coat, arose because of his friendship with a teacher at King’s Hospital, Ronnie Anderson, said the school’s headmaster Michael Hall.

Schrödinger published his manuscript in the December 1955 edition of Blue Coat, writing it in the form of a dialogue involving three speakers, said Trinity College Dublin’s Prof Jonathan Coleman, who now owns the typescript.

Oddly, while Schrödinger was writing about the start of quantum mechanics in the early 1900s, his speakers were from the 16th century and a time when none of the ideas would have made any sense. The character Salviati attempts to explain the oddities associated with quantum mechanics, while Simplicio refuses to believe that such things could possibly be true.

Ronnie Anderson kept the original typescript for some years before giving it to a young physics teacher who had joined the school, David Clarke, Mr Hall said. He in turn held on to it for several more decades before inviting a past pupil, Prof Coleman, to judge a science competition.

“I went to King’s Hospital and was invited to come back and talk to the kids,” he said. “At the end of the day he [Clarke] gave me the document.” Prof Coleman is now considering what to do with the typescript. “It had been sitting on a shelf for 40 years and before that, sitting on another shelf for 20 years,” he said.

The text of Schrödinger’s manuscript is now available at the kingshospital.ie website.

NewJobRadio.com – 21st century job hunting for the iPad generation

Ireland’s first ever jobs’ radio channel, and the first to be listed on iTunes, broadcasts to job hunters on the move & the Irish diaspora via weekly shows

NewJobRadio.com, the first ever radio station in Ireland to focus solely on job vacancies, was launched today. The brainchild of Verify Recruitment, the Dublin recruitment company, the internet radio station provides an outlet for Irish employers to showcase their job vacancies and provides shows that outline job vacancies in detail from some of Ireland’s best known companies.

The new station is the first jobs focused radio on iTunes and targets the iPod generation to allowing people to listen on line or download shows to their MP3 players. Each show will feature employers discussing the roles they have available and provide a detailed insight on the types of candidates that they are looking for.

The first show is now live on iTunes and NewJobRadio.com. Paddy Power is the featured employer discussing some of the current technology jobs available at their new Dublin campus in Clonskeagh.

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MXI secure €380,000 deal with Irish Life for Tableau Software

Irish Life selects Tableau Software to deliver Business Intelligence mobile dashboards for its life assurance and pensions divisions

Gerry Hasset, Irish Life, & Graham Mulhern, MXI

Dublin – 6th, February 2012: Wicklow software provider MXI Ireland has secured a €380,000 ($500,000) deal with pensions and life assurance insurance provider, Irish Life, which has selected Tableau Software to support its new vision for Business Intelligence (BI) across the firm. The financial services specialist is using Tableau to provide user friendly dashboards that allow access to data on financial products to 300 of their staff, for use when they out of the office, presenting data to clients using tablet computers. Irish Life chose Tableau Software for its ease of use and cost effectiveness.

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‘Volunteer With Verify’ the new initiative to help unemployed people provided free professional services to Irish charities.

2011 was the ‘European Year of Volunteering’ and with so many people out of work, and donations to charities reduced, Verify Recruitment aims to keep the goodwill of the past year alive by offering skills and expertise to Irish charities for 2012. Verify Recruitment has launched the ‘Volunteer With Verify’ programme and is working with two major not-for-profit organisations that supply help to Irish charities:  The Wheel and Volunteer Ireland. They are looking for both candidates and charities to participate.

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Anthony Joyce on the BBC’s World Service discussing Sean Quinn’s bankruptcy

After his appearance on the BBC Radio 4′s Today programme earlier this week the Dublin solicitor Anthony Joyce was again asked to go on the BBC to talk about the challenge to Sean Quinn’s bankruptcy in the High Court in Belfast. You can listen to the interview but clicking the link below.

Dublin solicitor Anthony Joyce BBC World Service 22.12.11

Dublin solicitor Anthony Joyce on BBC Radio 4 discussing Sean Quinn’s bankruptcy

Anthony Joyce was up early this morning to a telephone interview with BBC Radio 4′s very well respected current affairs breakfast show called The Today Programme. He was discussing the High Court case into Sean Quinn’s bankruptcy which IBRC, formerly Anglo Irish Bank are seeking to get annulled.

Please click the link below to listen to the interview.

BBC Radio 4 Today 20-12-11 Republic PR