| | | | Updates from Irish Tech News Ireland's leading Technology News Site In today's edition: - Employers urged to manage mental health of remote workers
- The challenges of making music during lockdown, One Morning in August
- Our Future: Bound to the Health of Planet Earth
- Could you live on a West Cork island? 5 Cape Clear perspectives
- Wellington IT launches cuMobile Ireland's first full-service credit union banking app
- COVID-19 causes surge in omni-channel pressure brands
- Over half of Irish consumers plan to continue shopping online where possible due to COVID-19
- Dinis Guarda Interviews Marc Buckley: UN SDG, WEF, Tech, Sustainability & Cities of Tomorrow
- Children spend significantly more time online during Covid-19 lockdown
- Why bees, and female beekeepers, are so important, insights with Samantha Parsons, Cape Clear
- Dropbox unveil Unplugged PTO employee scheme
- Twins, pubs, boats, and the joys of living on an island, Mary Molloy Ó Drisceoil, Cape Clear
- ORAL-B unveil their most revolutionary technology to date
- ROQU Group announce the launch of Health Passport Ireland
- Author Jame DiBiasio discusses his career and COVID-19
- Olive Safety to double training revenues to €5 million by year-end
- "Sea Fever"- A relevant albeit unfocused sci-fi-thriller
| | Excerpts: As Ireland slowly begins reopening society and business, employers are making necessary adjustments to workplaces to ensure health and safety, but the focus on employee wellbeing is equally as important. Balancing personal and professional responsibilities, social isolation, financial stress and job insecurity are just some of the stressors affecting employees and, for employers, this has […] Read on » What is your background? One Morning in August are a two-piece based in Waterford and Carlow (John Phelan on guitar and vocals and Stephen Byrne on drums) and we started the band in Winter 2018. We are both originally from a village called Kiltegan, Co. Wicklow. We have recorded our debut album with producer David […] Read on » By Gary Tierney, Managing Director at HP Ireland, who looks at the future and how we can potentially impact more positively on planet earth. As COVID-19 swept across the globe, a small silver lining emerged – the realisation of our planet's ability to quickly heal. As businesses temporarily shut their doors and people sheltered at […] Read on » Cape Clear Island has had a long positive tradition of families moving from all over the world, to raise their children in the safety and peace of a small friendly island in Roaring Water Bay, West Cork. The island is now looking to share this experience and opportunity with new families who are thinking about […] Read on » Wellington IT, the Irish technology partner to the credit union sector, has launched Ireland's first banking app dedicated to enabling credit union members to manage their accounts fully online. It is the culmination of a multi-year investment programme and it has been designed to allow Ireland's 3.6 million credit union members to easily manage their […] Read on » A study released reveals the scale of omni-channel pressure brands now face as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, as consumers flock to apps and websites as the priority destination to transact with brands. The UK and Ireland have experienced a huge leap in the use of online services thanks to COVID-19, with the public […] Read on » New research commissioned by Visa shows that over half of Irish consumers (53%) plan to continue shopping online where possible due to COVID-19, highlighting the growing importance of eCommerce to the Irish economy. Furthermore, restrictions on in-store trading during lockdown has spurred one in four (24%) Irish small businesses to begin selling online for the […] Read on » Latest interesting episode from Dinis Guarda’s new series of Leaders Profiles interviews on YouTube. Dinis Guarda interviews ESG Sustainability Advisor, Activist, WEF Expert and Resilient Futurist Marc Buckley in this new interview series for cities abc. In their dialogue, sustainability, environment and the role of technology collide as the answers to make the world a […] Read on » New research carried out by the National Anti-Bullying Research and Resource Centre at Dublin City University in partnership with the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission which looks at how children and parents engaged with digital technology while staying at home during the Covid-19 lockdown highlights a number of impacts on children's online safety […] Read on » Fascinating interview with Samantha Parsons, from Fastnet Farm, www.fastnetfarm.com/, on Cape Clear island, West Cork. Samantha Parsons grew up fascinated by bees in Massachussettes, had her interest further sparked by her time in Greece. Then, when she wanted to learn more and went to events and conventions, was bemused to see she was the only young […] Read on » By Laura Ryan, Director of International HR, Dropbox. Across Ireland, knowledge workers have been adjusting the new normal that is distributed work. But what was once deemed as a perk, a day per week to save on commuting, or a means of finding some focus away from the office, working from home in the current […] Read on » Interesting interview with Mary Molloy Ó Drisceoil, who moved to Cape Clear in 1982 with her family, where they raised their twin boys on the island. We learn more about her reasons for moving to Cape Island, West Cork, and raising a family and educating the children in an Irish speaking family and community. Cape […] Read on » Oral-B, the #1 Dentist Recommended Brand Worldwide, pioneered both the electric toothbrush and connected brushing, and now has unveiled its most revolutionary technology to date, the Oral-B iO™. After 6 years of research and over 250 patents, Oral-B iO™ represents a new era of brushing technology, design, and experience that delivers a professional clean feeling […] Read on » The Irish-based ROQU Group has announced the pilot launch of Health Passport Ireland, a world-first digital platform designed to facilitate increased COVID-19 testing for businesses and the public. Engineered in Ireland, the platform combines the latest digital technologies with accurate and validated COVID-19 testing solutions, which can deliver results in as little as 15 minutes. […] Read on » Jame DiBiasio is an author, editor, journalist, and publisher. He is the author of "Cowries to Crypto: The History of Money, Currency and Wealth". I spoke with Jamie about his background and career. We firstly discussed his past and how it plays into his latest projects: “In 2017 I set up my own media brand, DigFin, […] Read on » Olive Safety, part of education technology company Olive Group, has announced a 50% increase in uptake of its safety courses, compared to this time last year. Ireland's leading health and safety training body for businesses, Olive Safety has responded to the increased market demand by expanding the number of fully accredited courses available online via […] Read on » At this current time, any film that draws attention to the necessity of containing a life-ending affection deserves some praise due to the ever-present danger of COVID-19. However, this does not excuse Neasa Hardiman’s ocean set sci-fi thriller “Sea Fever” from placing no emphasis on reeling in the audience. Instead, its lack of purpose in […] Read on » | | | | | | |