Inside View

Going Local with Young Voices

by Bernie Goldbach in Clonmel DYLAN IS REFINING his podcasting skills by seeking out people in places he enjoys. He's using our Rode Wireless Go microphones when interviewing people he has met in various local venues, such as Sylvia in ...

It's All About Local

WHILE STANDING ON THE town plaza, looking at Kearney's Castle (at right), I felt my phone vibrate with a Bluetooth download. The file was coming from the old Town Hall and it was an audio tour of the town. I accepted the file and liste...

Watching My Local McDonald's Study Sessions

Bernie Goldbach in Cashel | Laptop snapped at our local McDs. I SEE A LOT of road warriors encamped at our local McDonald's with laptops and tablets. They're using free and open wifi under the Golden Arches. McDonald's in Cashel is t...

Local Broadband Certification

MY TAKE ON BROADBAND throughout Ireland often comes by looking at speed tests, watching wireless broadband signals on my mobile phone, and wishing for more joined-up thinking about best ways to use the infrastructure. While I'm looking a...

Colourful local food markets

I THINK IT'S TIME for an Irish network of local food markets. Local authorities should band together to bring this kind of network to fruition. It would enhance the attractiveness of local towns and villages because people like traveli...

Geocaching with a 4yo

Bernie Goldbach in Cashel | 388 words WE REBOOTED OUR ENTHUSIASM for geocaching, led by our four-year-old daughter who proved her sleuthing skills by discovering two local geocaches within an hour of walking out the front door. I tried...

Geocaching with Young Ones

Rolling Through Patrick's Day in Cashel

Bernie Goldbach in Cashel | Photo of rolling stock. ST PATRICK'S DAY in Ireland passed under a light rain in the sunny southeast and I reckon a third of all the entries in the local Golden Pages rolled through Cashel as part of the annu...

St Patricks Day in Cashel

Wet Irish Sunday Newspapers

ONE LITTLE SECRET of my life involves my local newsagent who gives me a major price break when I chose to get wet newspapers. And are they wet today! I returned from his cash till with a pile of wet pulp and €10 of unexpected spare chang...

Making a Good News Zone

MY MOLESKINE REMINDS ME that we should continue our discussion about setting up a Good News Zone in South Tipperary--an online community that connects businesses to each other through a flow of events, special offers and ideas that make ...

Local Smash and Grab then National Paper Round

AT 6AM WE heard a single knock at the door. We woke up but nobody was out front. So I drove up to the local petrol station to buy the Sunday papers and snapped the shot that's on my blog post, on the cover art of my Audioboo and in the f...

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