I read RTE this morning and was delighted to see the headline “Hi-tech cable to link US with Ireland” but incredulous when they stated that it was the first transatlantic telecommunications cable to directly link Ireland with the US. I got over it until I saw an even bolder claim in the Metro paper – [...]

They are NOT the same family! Aldi North and Aldi South are run by two brothers and the international market has been divided up geographically by them. Aldi comes from “ALbrecht DIscount” and the brothers names are Karl Albrecht und Theo Albrecht. Legend has it that they separated because of a dispute over whether [...]

Biofuels ‘Emit More Greenhouse Gases than Fossil Fuels’
Did your county make the new All-Ireland Monopoly board?
20 things we’ve learned from the Rugby World Cup
Potsdamer Platz is up for sale! (nod to Eddie Hobbs et. al).
Via Danny – Why Democracy Film
A corporate conspiracy to silence alternative medicine?
How the Green Party and Eamon Ryan are doing more [...]

I’ve recently discovered A Random Walk – Irish Financial Blog and find it an interesting read on a daily basis, especially considering the US sub-prime mortgages, the worldwide credit crunch, the Irish property bubble and so on.
The ECB has to step in and loan €155.85 billion to banks to save them from a credit crunch.
Goldman [...]

Giant Lego figure appears on beach
Turns out that there is a crypt worth visiting in Dublin – St Michan’s Church & Crypt via Elly and Maryrose
Also via Elly – Nokia Announces Battery Recall
GSpace – a firefox addon (not from Google) worth trying perhaps
Aaaah – the hippies are threatening our jelly babies! Next it will be [...]

The entreprenuers from Limerick that were turned down by EI and raised $400,000 in Silicon Valley at Limerick OpenCoffee on Thursday – Auctomatic
The butter mountain is gone, the Bavarians sound more agricultural than the Irish and milk is becoming a sought-after commodity – a very interesting article: Getting Milked
Via topgold – The New York [...]

Today the Enterprise Acceleration Centre at LIT hosts a briefing on the All-island Seedcorn Business Competition.
The Enterprise Acceleration Centre will also host the 3rd Start Up Boot Camp in Limerick on 22nd September. €145 per person