Category: Blogging
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Blogiversary
On July 19, 2002 this blog started – 5,114 days/14 years ago. It was just 10 months after 9/11 and blogging was just getting started. Here’s to the next 14 years.
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10 years a blogging
Just to mark – though I have since moved on to thestory.ie – that this blog is 10 years old today! 🙂 Thanks to all my readers over the years – and the stats just passed the 2 million mark around the same time…
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De blogging
Things have been quiet around these parts of late. I moved to Dublin, started working for Storyful, and have been kept very busy over at thestory.ie doing FOIs. Do readers want me to cross post everything from thestory.ie to here?
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Department expense database
[Crossposted to thestory.ie] Readers may recall a blog post I wrote back in December detailing my dealings with the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism (DAST). After gleaning information from the footers of Ken Foxe’s FOIs concerning John O’Donoghue, I established that the Department was using Oracle iExpense software to store expenses information. I wrote…
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Happy new year
Another year down… a happy new year to everyone!
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Baker Tilly report
For those interested on what goes on at some State bodies that do not fall under FOI legislation, Mark has distilled the details of the Baker Tilly report in CIE (the Irish operator of railways), and posted the report itself. It details widespread fraud at the body, and is the first time the report has…
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In Barcelona
Blogging has been very light recently as I’ve been busy with stuff over at thestory.ie, and now I’m in Barcelona for PDF Europe. Day 1 looks like a great lineup and I’m looking forward to meeting lots of interest people over the next couple of days. And I didn’t bring my camera. D’oh.
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Back
Back from holidays, though yet to upload most of the pictures. Palmyra was very impressive indeed.
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Anger and John O'Donoghue
The Sunday Tribune reported over the weekend that current speaker of the Dail, and former tourism minister John O’Donoghue spent upwards of €125,000 (excluding government jet costs) over two years. Among the details: Among the expenditure were a series of €900-a-night hotels, €7,591 on “airport pick-ups” during a two-day trip to London, €120 for hat…
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Giving something back?
Given the day that’s in it, after seven years of blogging, I feel like I should try and give something back to the blogosphere. Over the years I have offered hosting to a number of people who I felt deserved better tools than Blogspot offers, or would be better served by having their own domain,…