Founder of 4 startups but nay exit. Set up and ran bothLaunchbox & Launchpad at Trinity College. Now commercialising IT research at TCD . Personal Views Here.
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May 8
Where does your salary stretch the most? See how purchasing power reshapes global wage rankings—and why Switzerland ranks lower than expected. visualcapitalist.com/ranked-… via @visualcap
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Mar 26
Quiz time at ARC Hub for ICT information session : The Enterprise Value of Startups in ireland is c. €100bn . How much of that is from companies founded by PhDs:
A: €8bn
B: €12bn
C: €25 bn
Answer on a postcard please or if you prefer in comments. #euinmyregion
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Feb 14
Watched Hamnet in this venue location where you get a get a comfy seat for 15 euro. And watch a big screen. My takeaway is that there are 25,000 plus Hamnet stories in Gaza .
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Feb 6
One of the many differences between the West and Dublin is that women in the West still go out for drinks event it's pissin rain
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Jan 16
Quantum computing ever is proven to be useful these are the people who can do it. irishtimes.com/business/2026… equal1.com/post/equal1-60m-f…
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Jan 16
" If students navigating higher education believe the goal is to pass rather than to learn, then student misuse of generative AI technologies is nothing more than a rational action by a rational agent." theconversation.com/ai-disru…
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22 Dec 2025
This is *EXACTLY* what the Irish Startup "ecosystem" needs at present. Well done Eamon Leonard !
"The Baseline founders said they became ‘frustrated’ with the ‘institutionalisation’ of how start-ups are built in Ireland."
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17 Dec 2025
The BBC found evidence Israeli forces deliberately sniped Palestinian children — over 60% shot in the head or chest.
Israel has killed about 21,000 children in two years, with a spike even before October 7.
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12 Dec 2025
Simple question why would this story not lead on all mainstream news channels? As an Irish person who lived through the eighties this can end in the worst possible way.
democracynow.org/2025/12/11/…
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11 Dec 2025
The SILENCE of the politico-media elites over the 8 hunger-strikers in UK jails protesting about the GENOCIDE in Gaza and their own conditions, is SHAMEFUL and a betrayal of humane values and of basic journalism too
11 Dec 2025
It took the BBC until around 7pm on 10 December – when some prisoners had gone 38 days without food – to report on the hunger strike for the first time.
As an NHS doctor revealed that the hunger strikers are on a "trajectory that ends with death", @JershCarroll explores why it took the BBC so long to cover it.
Read the full report: novara.media/4ptJ5p1
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21 Nov 2025
Trinity College Dublin receives its first cryptocurrency donation. With donation of €25,000 in stablecoin from @aave Labs , @tcddublin has become the first university in Ireland to receive a philanthropic donation in #cryptocurrency
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11 Nov 2025
This university is ranked No 1 in Dublin for graduate employment
TU Dublin now offers 170 CAO courses to inspire young minds.
thejournal.ie/tu-dublin-2-68…
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9 Oct 2025
Trinity drops in world university rankings from 139th to 173rd
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26 Sep 2025
Sky News interviewed a Jewish protester about Netanyahu’s UN speech.
“The genocide supporters like to point to October 7… this didn’t start 2 years ago… this is 70 years of occupation… Israel is an apartheid, ethnonationalist state…”
Conveniently, Sky News cut the feed.
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31 Aug 2025
"An ode to telegraph poles in an age of giant pylons" : @tcddublin spinout AIMapit is the world's leading expert in tracking street assets. Originally they honed their AI algorithm and pipeline on the humble Telegraph Pole for @eir Ireland on.ft.com/4p13L7W
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25 Aug 2025
Another fundraising round for another @tcddublin company businesspost.ie/tech/irish-m…
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