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Small is beautiful: your guide to becoming a global micro-publishing phenomenon
Allyson Bird’s (@allysonjbird) March 19th blog detailed the Charleston native’s motivation for abandoning her career as a journalist. In ‘Why I left news’ Allyson explained that journalism ‘didn’t seem like a sustainable career path’ and how she ‘finally
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Bundesliga über alles – the ownership of Premier League clubs does matter!
If we want to oppose a society where everything has a price and nothing has value the ownership of football clubs must matter. Now, more than ever, the issue of making a distinct effort to
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Screenwriting: I do not recommend it to others
WH Auden claimed that all art is born of humiliation. Maybe he was right. Maybe to succeed as a writer what you need most is an almost demonic compulsiveness; to be a little mad.
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Hurling: is this the game we want?
Modern inter-county hurling rewards cynicism. The most effective hurlers are not the best players. Indeed, we have arrived at a point in the development of hurling which demands that the stakeholders in the game
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Thank you James Whelton
Coderdojo’s culture of sharing and the social conscience of those who drive this exciting project can help our children self-actualise. In a 2011 article Charles Leadbeater suggested that the small town of Waterloo, Ontario was
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Could the spirit of The Wire save Ireland?
David Simon, a veteran crime reporter with the Baltimore Sun, and Ed Burns, a Baltimore cop, created The Wire. The five-season television series is a gritty and compelling saga which revolves around an expansive
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Let Lar Corbett tell his story
On November first Lar Corbett (@larcorbett) will launch his autobiography All In My Head and there is still sulphur in the air. You know the story: Tipperary, showing a collective will of purest marshmallow, lost
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Filter bubbles: a nightmare on Fleet Street
George Orwell, in an unpublished introduction to Animal Farm, described how censorship in democratic society would become infinitely more sophisticated than in any dictatorship. “Unpopular ideas,” Orwell wrote, “can be silenced and inconvenient facts kept
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Gorbachev would give the GAA summit to think about!
Is it time to place the club at the very centre of the GAA’s national competition structure? Twenty-four years ago former Armagh manager Peter Makem, in an article published in the Irish Independent, suggested that
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Beyond Print: From Newspapers To News Media
The surest sign that the golden age of newspapers is over is that politicians, so often the target of their wrath, have begun feel sorry for them. Indeed, it is truly a shocking indictment
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