Steve Flinter’s blog

Silicon Republic is carrying an article on a project called Metropolis being conducted at the Interaction, Simulation and Graphics Lab at TCD.
Pretty good and accurate piece on the project.
The DERI blog also has an entry about this.

Silicon Republic has an interesting and reasonably extensive post on their blog covering Professor Donal O’Mahony and the SFI-funded Centre for Telecoms Value Chain Research
A brief quote:

To understand what the CTVR actually does, it is first necessary to define the term ‘value chain’. It was first coined in the Eighties by US management thinker ME [...]

The Irish Times this morning reports that the University of Limerick has appointed Professor Don Barry as its new President. Professor Barry replaces the current acting President, John O’Connor.

The appointment is also announced on the UL news page

The Chancellor of the University of Limerick (UL) and Chairman of its Governing Authority, Mr Sean Donlon, [...]

John Breslin, a researcher at the SFI funded Digital Enterprise Research Institute has announced that his boards.ie has acquired the “Boards Group” set of message boards.
Congratulations to John.