Pushing the boundaries of photography with Gillian Hyland. Cian Walsh interviews Gillian Hyland. Gillian Hyland is a London based photographer. Originally from Ireland, Hyland describes herself as an image maker and story teller. Her dramatic photographs ar...

Irish consumer spending returns to growth in March with +2.7% increase year-on-year. Visa’s Irish Consumer Spending Index, produced by IHS Markit, which measures expenditure across all payment types (cash, cheques and electronic payments), signalled a positive end to the first quarte...

Walking across Iceland to help Irish Dogs for the Disabled. Interesting interview with Dermot Cosgrove who is making a solo traverse of Iceland in July 2019 in aid of Irish Dogs for the Disabled. What is your background briefly? My background is military, more ...

Talk Worm not Cake and Grow your Business. I am contacted regularly by organisations, be they large or small, who have pitched and failed to have successful outcomes, be it to win sales or investment. I explain to my clients that the pitch is...

Behavioural science and how to develop tech products people really want. Developing tech products that people really want is hard. Even the biggest companies have major fails. Remember Microsoft Zune in 2001, Google Lively in 2008 or the Windows Phone in 2010. Probably no...

SEAI leads €2.6million European project to unlock potential of ocean energy. The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) is leading a new pan-European project, Ocean Power Innovation Network (OPIN), which aims to accelerate the development of the ocean energy sector. W...

Linked Finance Issues Record €11.3m Loans in First Quarter. Linked Finance is on track for record growth this year, having delivered the strongest quarter in the platform’s 6-year history. Q1 2019 saw the platform provide more €11.3M in loans to Irish SMEs. T...

Financial inclusion is a necessity in Africa, Derrick Hope Gidzi, CTO of ZipCoin. What is your background briefly? I am the CTO of ZipCoin LLC and ZipCoin Remit Limited respectively our blockchain technology start-ups. Zipcoin Remit is a blockchain based decentralized remittance a...

Irish artificial intelligence centre selected to join new European network of AI innovation hubs. Ireland’s applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) centre has been selected as one of 30 innovation hubs which will form a network across the EU for cross-border collaboration on AI. CeADAR, which is Irela...

The Future of Banking. The journey from unbundling to rebundling and back has been a formidable one. Emerging technologies and the pace of innovation are driving changes throughout the banking industry at an unprecedented ra...