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WHEN MY granduncle Paddy, a farmer with a small holding about five miles outside of Mohill, County Leitrim, on the Ballinamore Road, heard something he thought was extraordinary or unusual, he would slap his knee simultaneously stamping his foot on the ground with great glee and exclaim “By the hokey, that bates Banagher!”

Galway’s secondary school should have 100 mbs broadband access by October, allowing pupils higher speed broadband internet access than before.

Fáilte Ireland has welcomed Communications Minister, Pat Rabbitte’s announcement of a new Rural Broadband Scheme aimed at providing universal broadband access throughout Ireland by the end of 2012.

The first free smartphone app to guide tourists around one of Ireland’s most popular tourist destinations, Kilkenny city and county, has been launched.

This election will be like no other for a number of reasons. But one of the major reasons has been the explosion of social media since we last went to the ballot boxes in a general election in 2007. While Facebook is something that has become part of the social fabric of communication world wide, it was only in its infancy as a world-wide communication tool four years ago. But even Facebook has been usurped as a instant communication tool by the evolution of Twitter.

The man responsible for an unprovoked and violent attack in which the victim sustained serious injury to the back of his head was captured on CCTV, a tool in crime prevention which was praised by a district court judge this week.