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recent bookmarks from jmWe’re headed for big problems if gardaí get facial recognition technology2024-03-20T12:29:53+00:00
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/03/20/were-headed-for-big-problems-if-gardai-get-facial-recognition-technology/
jmFRT mislabels and miscategorises faces with dark complexions. In the US alone, six people have so far been wrongfully arrested and detained due to errors, all of whom are black. It is unknown how many misidentified people may have taken plea deals. Robust scientific research confirms higher error rates of FRT identifying darker-skinned people. Yet, Mr O’Sullivan claimed FRT has a 99 per cent accuracy rate, citing a US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) report, at the pre-legislative hearing.
For this 99 per cent claim, Mr O’Sullivan cherry-picked the best-performing algorithm out of hundreds of algorithms that NIST evaluated, an algorithm called “cloudwalk_mt_007″. This algorithm is developed by CloudWalk Technology, a Chinese company known for aiding mass surveillance of the Uyghur population. Crucial information on how their algorithms operate is kept secret.
NIST evaluated the algorithm using high-quality, clean images collected from US visa applications, border kiosks and mugshots. But An Garda Síochána’s stated intention is to use any imagery it legally holds or can access. The gardaí's input images will be drawn from CCTV (unreliable due to camera angle, distance, position and lighting), often containing multiple faces in a single image (a major challenge for FRT algorithms), and blurry images. To cite NIST’s laboratory study for the proposed Irish real-world use is, by accident or design, misleading.
Still, even with clean test data, the “cloudwalk_mt_007″ algorithm fails on border kiosk images, which are the closest to real-world application of FRT. The algorithm also shows discrepancies by ethnicity. West African women are by far the most affected, meaning its use could have a catastrophic impact in misidentification of black women.
For relevant studies of FRT’s performance, audits of deployed FRT in contexts similar to Ireland should be considered. Audits from Cambridge researchers have found that deployments of FRT in England and Wales failed to meet all minimum legal and ethical standards and requirements.
]]>legality legal frt facial-recognition ireland gardai law surveillance cctv racism accuracy false-positiveshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:10709cf75eb1/Trinity team discovers underlying cause of brain fog linked with Long COVID2024-02-26T15:58:29+00:00
https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/top-stories/featured/trinity-team-discovers-underlying-cause-of-brain-fog-linked-with-long-covid/
jm
Now, the findings reported by the Trinity team in the top international journal Nature Neuroscience showed that there was disruption to the integrity of the blood vessels in the brains of patients suffering from Long COVID and brain fog. This blood vessel “leakiness” was able to objectively distinguish those patients with brain fog and cognitive decline compared to patients suffering from Long-COVID but not with brain fog.
The team led by scientists at the Smurfit Institute of Genetics in Trinity’s School of Genetics and Microbiology and neurologists in the School of Medicine have also uncovered a novel form of MRI scan that shows how Long-COVID can affect the human brain’s delicate network of blood vessels.
“For the first time, we have been able to show that leaky blood vessels in the human brain, in tandem with a hyperactive immune system may be the key drivers of brain fog associated with Long COVID. This is critically important, as understanding the underlying cause of these conditions will allow us to develop targeted therapies for patients in the future,” said Prof. Matthew Campbell, Professor in Genetics and Head of Genetics at Trinity, and Principal Investigator at FutureNeuro.
Apparently, this is the first study to correlate blood-brain barrier disruption with "brain fog" symptoms of Long COVID, using an enhanced MRI procedure. This is a very significant step towards the discovery of biomarkers and therapies for neurological manifestations of Long COVID.
Great to see this kind of significant research from TCD!
Full paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-024-01576-9]]>tcd dublin ireland trinity long-covid covid-19 research papers neurologyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:38ed6bd500ad/The EU should support Ireland’s bold move to regulate Big Tech2024-01-04T11:49:17+00:00
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/4380369-the-eu-should-support-irelands-bold-move-to-regulate-big-tech/
jm
...a simple, easily enforceable rule that could change the game: All recommender systems based on intimately profiling people should be turned off by default. In practice, that means that the big platforms cannot automatically run algorithms that use information about a person’s political views, sex life, health or ethnicity. A person will be able to switch an algorithm on, but those toxic algorithms will no longer be on by default. Users will still have access to algorithmic amplification, but they will have to opt in to get it.
Great idea. The toxicity driven by "personalized feeds" has been extremely harmful.]]>cnm regulation ireland tech personalisation algorithmic-feeds tiktok instagram facebook twitter social-mediahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:aece7c98ad57/Toutless suspends new user regs2023-12-18T10:50:59+00:00
https://www.toutless.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=42783
jmtickets resale toutless gigs music ireland dublin scamshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f29f26451857/Far-right agitation on Irish social media mainly driven from abroad2023-12-05T11:16:22+00:00
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2023/12/05/most-ireland-is-full-and-irish-lives-matter-online-posts-originate-abroad/
jm
The research showed the use of the phrases increased dramatically, both in Ireland and abroad, once word started spreading that the suspect in the knife attack was born outside Ireland.
“Users in the UK and US were very, very highly represented. Which was strange because with hashtags that are very geographically specific, you wouldn’t expect to see that kind of spread,” said Mr Doak.
“These three hashtags have been heavily boosted by users in the US and UK. Taken together, UK and US users accounted for more use of the hashtags than Ireland.”
Other countries that saw use of the phrases on a much smaller scale include India, Nigeria and Spain.
]]>ireland politics far-right agitation racism fascism trolls twitter facebook tiktok instagramhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:2114c2e28b5d/EnergyPal.ie2023-12-04T20:37:40+00:00
https://energypal.ie/
jmanalysis electricity ireland smart-meters home esb power hdf open-datahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d3cda2f4854c/How Elon Musk changed Twitter’s Dublin operation: ‘He broke the culture in a week’ – The Irish Times2023-10-27T15:06:05+00:00
https://archive.ph/20231027115521/https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/10/28/he-broke-the-culture-in-a-week-how-elon-musk-changed-twitters-dublin-operation/#selection-1905.0-1926.0
jm“We were, in many ways, an afterthought ... the decisions he made and how he made them, were made as if they were only impacting America,” says the source.
“I think one of the toughest things for a lot of the Dublin people was [that] we were spectators at our own demise. We were like collateral. [Musk] was attacking Twitter in the US, and we were collateral damage -- which was a strange feeling for a place that had been so integral to the global footprint of the company.”
]]>elon-musk twitter ireland dublin working business acquisitionshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:fcd2b76984fe/ESB HDF Reader2023-10-04T16:42:26+00:00
https://github.com/dresdner353/energyutils/blob/main/ESB_HDF_READER.md
jmformats json csv hdf esb power feed-in-tarriff ireland open-data datahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4cd7358f7373/GDPR and the Catholic Church2023-09-18T10:08:57+00:00
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/gdpr-saves-catholic-double-dipping-baptism-rule-fred-logue/
jmSo to conclude, the Archbishop is a data controller and he needs to be more transparent, for his penance he will have to handle data subject requests but virtually all of these can be safely refused.
Go and announce the Gospel of the DPC.
Thanks be to the GDPR.
]]>gdpr fail dpc ireland catholicism religion data-privacyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d8473aa48901/Some libraries in Ireland are restricting access to young adult LGBTQ+ books, employee says • GCN2023-07-25T13:24:50+00:00
https://gcn.ie/ireland-libraries-restricting-access-lgbtq-young-adult-books/
jmOur source shared that roughly one year ago, the [Irish public library] staff received training about how to provide young LGBTQ+ people with information and support. Now, this staff member feels that the library policy is restricting the same supportive material. Another anonymous source from a different library branch had this to say about the re-classification of young adult books as adult: “It is utterly galling that some Irish libraries have decided to capitulate to what amounts to terror tactics, and in a way that creates a hostile working environment to all LGBT staff who now have to work under these conditions, and are told they are not allowed to talk about it.”
]]>lgbtq books reading education sex-education nazis far-right politics irelandhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:afde0d88edf6/Status quo bias2023-06-22T11:56:49+00:00
https://irishcycle.com/2023/06/20/nta-hires-behavioural-scientists-to-look-at-how-status-quo-bias-affects-opposition-to-active-travel/
jm“Status quo bias is a little bit different, it’s quite fascinating actually. It sounds like a fancy piece of academic language to say that people don’t like change, and there’s a bit of truth in that, but it’s more subtle than that, he said.
“It’s like this — if you say to somebody ‘We’re going to change the way your town is laid out, we’re going to make it more friendly for pedestrians and cyclists,’ let’s say and you say there’s a plan to do it. A lot of people instinctually resist that. Actually, these sorts of policies are typically fairly popular but there’s a substantial minority who will really quite resist it,” he said.
Lunn said: “If instead of telling them that it is a plan you say ‘oh, there is this town that has this layout, do you like it or not?’, you get completely different responses. It is as if when something is a plan for change we instinctually, psychologically react to it more negatively.”
He said that if somebody else is proposing a plan some people will look for the negatives while they are less likely to do so if they are being asked a question in a more open way.
]]>status-quo bias behaviour planning future nta change ireland esri objectionshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:16be7993fda0/Early Irish Web Stuff2023-06-19T10:43:27+00:00
https://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwmalone/early-web.html?s=03
jmhistory ireland 1993 iona web http wwwhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:577a1bb6e660/systemd on Proxmox freaks out at Irish DST2023-03-26T18:59:25+00:00
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/systemd-100-cpu-hang.124767/
jmvia:kiall proxmox dst daylight-savings timezones ireland systemdhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f82ab75435cc/My Smart Data 2022-11-21T11:22:30+00:00
https://www.esbnetworks.ie/existing-connections/meters-and-readings/my-smart-data
jmsmart-meters esb electricity consumption monitoring irelandhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:279cc28c14fe/Irish consumer law gives 6 years of repair/replacement rights2022-11-18T14:43:05+00:00
https://www.apple.com/ie/legal/statutory-warranty/ie/
jmUnder Irish consumer law, consumers are entitled to a free of charge repair or (depending on the circumstances) may be entitled to a replacement, discount or refund by the seller, of defective goods or goods which do not conform with the contract of sale. These rights expire six years from delivery of the goods.
]]>consumer-rights law ireland consumer rights repairhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:6c03c21772dd/foreigners of dublin, where in dublin can you get the best and most authentic food from your home country?2022-10-05T22:17:15+00:00
https://www.reddit.com/r/Dublin/comments/xuooan/foreigners_of_dublin_where_in_dublin_can_you_get/
jmdublin ireland food restaurants eating nightlifehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0b7bb31fca3c/Mobile 3G / 4G / 5G coverage in Ireland - nPerf.com2022-08-23T16:52:20+00:00
https://www.nperf.com/en/map/IE/2964574.Dublin/5328.eir-Mobile/signal/?ll=53.04596042811769&lg=-7.870416976511479&zoom=7
jmcountry ireland rural internet network coverage 3g 4g 5g nperf crowdsourced maps via:itchttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9e88543878ed/Sectoral Budgets must align with legal requirements | An Taisce2022-07-29T12:28:41+00:00
https://www.antaisce.org/News/sectoral-budgets-must-align-with-legal-requirements
jm“By agreeing to these sectoral ceilings the Government is potentially signing up to something which is not aligned with the Climate Act from the very get go. Where has the 2025 budget gone? Why does it only add up to 43% when the law itself requires 51%? It seems like they’re making it up as they go along, but this whole process has to be aligned to the legal requirements of the Climate Act, you can’t simply fudge it. This is a truly chaotic way to budget for the future”
Well said.]]>an-taisce climate-change co2 irelandhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:af89dda028b7/Range Extenders for Nissan Leafs2022-07-25T10:50:18+00:00
https://rangetherapy.org/
jmnissan leaf cars driving ireland evs range muxsanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1d68e1ced8b7/The Greatest Unsolved Heist in Irish History - Atlas Obscura2022-05-31T08:23:44+00:00
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/irish-crown-jewels-theft
jmheists thefts ireland crown-jewels whodunnit scandalshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e575f8026ffc/SARS-CoV-2 variant trends in Ireland: Wastewater-based epidemiology and clinical surveillance - ScienceDirect2022-05-31T08:11:25+00:00
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969722029254
jmdublin ireland diseases monitoring sars-cov-2 covid-19 water poop sewagehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:8c6b4f4274f5/Dublin Airport Security Wait Times2022-05-21T10:56:37+00:00
https://dublinairportwait.ie/
jmsecurity-queues queueing dublin-airport travel airports dublin ireland holidayshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9d7d46ddadd9/Ireland by land quality2022-05-03T14:29:38+00:00
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Classification-of-Irelands-land-area-into-four-categories-in-relation-to-availability_fig1_292988995
jmrewilding rural land ireland maps geodata fishery agriculture farminghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:6c8b099c84ff/An Post & OSI company “GeoDirectory” uses Census data to profile every Irish home2022-05-03T08:39:42+00:00
https://www.iccl.ie/news/iccl-data-complaint-an-post-osi-company-profiles-irish-peoples-income-and-homes-and-sells-data-to-data-brokers-and-insurance-companies/
jmThe Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) reveals that An Post & OSI use Census data to profile every Irish home and sell ‘location intelligence’ to data brokers and insurance companies. ICCL has lodged a complaint with the Data Protection Commission.
In particular, buyers include Experian, one of the world's biggest data brokers. There's no way this meets the spirit, if not the word, of the GDPR, there's no data privacy here.]]>data-privacy data-protection iccl experian an-post osi census data privacy irelandhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f47b892b723f/The three big myths about Omicron2022-03-31T09:03:41+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/30/uk-near-record-covid-cases-three-myths-omicron-pandemic
jmcovid-19 uk ireland omicron sars-cov-2 pandemics healthhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:24e43840b81b/Identification of Distinct Long COVID Clinical Phenotypes Through Cluster Analysis of Self-Reported Symptoms | Open Forum Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic2022-03-23T11:51:14+00:00
https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article/9/4/ofac060/6543845?login=false
jmCluster 1 had predominantly pain symptoms with a higher proportion of joint pain, myalgia, and headache; cluster 2 had a preponderance of cardiovascular symptoms with prominent chest pain, shortness of breath, and palpitations; and cluster 3 had significantly fewer symptoms than the other clusters (2 [IQR, 2–3] symptoms per individual in cluster 3 vs 6 [IQR, 5–7] and 4 [IQR, 3–5] in clusters 1 and 2, respectively; P < .001). Clusters 1 and 2 had greater functional impairment, demonstrated by significantly longer work absence, higher dyspnea scores, and lower scores in SF-36 domains of general health, physical functioning, and role limitation due to physical functioning and social functioning.
]]>long-covid ireland covid-19 paddy-mallon papershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4c3627976e60/the economics of DIY solar in Ireland2022-03-21T12:12:19+00:00
https://twitter.com/duncmat/status/1504728778903371776
jmsolar-power diy electricity power green-living ireland solar-panelshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:af1524623b02/Human Life International operating in Ireland2022-03-21T11:44:19+00:00
https://the-beacon.ie/2022/03/19/irish-branch-of-us-anti-abortion-catholic-group-has-income-of-nearly-e1m-per-year-and-runs-rogue-crisis-pregnancy-agency/
jmhuman-life-international hli ireland abortion gender-rights ask-majella contraception politics right-winghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b2d12ec7439d/Primary schools & childcare services antigen programme - HSE.ie2022-03-21T11:33:09+00:00
https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/schools-antigen-testing/
jmhse ireland covid-19 testing antigen-tests freehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:10c8d816d313/Excellent Twitter thread on the current COVID-19 situation in Denmark2022-02-18T11:00:15+00:00
https://twitter.com/K_G_Andersen/status/1494497740700540929
jmSo looking at this report - and only focusing on population-based acute effects - I see several trends that concern me. Are these acute consequences acceptable? For me, no, but politicians need to decide. Are we making decisions based on a realistic outlook? I'm not sure.
All of this also applies in Ireland at the moment, IMO...
]]>covid-19 endemicity pandemics denmark ireland omicron public-healthhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4c9e81d617ea/DeliverMe.ie2022-01-21T12:07:06+00:00
https://www.deliverme.ie/how-it-works
jmdelivery brexit uk parcels shipping irelandhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c3d79e29a965/CableMonkey.ie2022-01-06T10:25:40+00:00
https://www.cablemonkey.ie/
jmcables networking networks ireland hardware shoppinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e4e7283f9aaf/Consumer warranties and statutory rights2021-12-16T14:13:25+00:00
https://www.eccireland.ie/ecc-ireland-issues-advisory-on-consumer-warranties-and-statutory-rights/
jmStatutory rights are provided for by legislation (Irish law and EU law as transposed in Ireland). These act as a kind of “legal guarantee”, entitling consumers to seek redress where an item is faulty. Consumers may rely on their statutory rights regardless of whether an item has a warranty or not.
Under Irish law, consumers have up to six years to seek redress for faulty or defective items (both new and second-hand).
If the product is defective, the seller is generally responsible for providing redress.
If a fault arises within six months of purchase, it is presumed to have existed at the time of purchase. For this reason, the consumer should not have to provide proof of the defect.
If the fault arises more than six months after purchase, the seller may request that the consumer prove the fault did not arise as a result of misuse – for instance, by obtaining a report from an independent expert.
Where an item is faulty, the seller may first offer a repair or replacement item. If this is not possible or fails to correct the problem, a refund may then be provided. Remedies for faulty goods must be provided free of charge.
]]>rights repair support defective-goods guarantee warranty defects ireland euhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:229b03a343b0/The Irish family who added to the Australian vernacular2021-12-09T10:58:53+00:00
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/abroad/the-irish-family-who-added-to-the-australian-vernacular-1.4749025
jmWhen the first World War broke out in 1914, Furphy water carts were used to bring water to Australian troops in Australia, Europe and the Middle East.. Soldiers would gather round the Furphy to get a drink and to have a chat, telling jokes and tall stories. That gave rise to the use of the word Furphy as a rumour or a false report which continues to the present day.
The two companies, Furphy Foundry and J Furphy and Sons remain after five generations in family ownership and continue to produce many products including watercarts, all of which proudly bear the name “Furphy” in prominent lettering.
]]>furphy ireland australia etymology words historyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:abd41b8007a3/National Townland and Historical Map Viewer2021-11-19T16:54:58+00:00
https://geohive.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=9def898f708b47f19a8d8b7088a100c4
jmmaps mapping history ireland osi archaeologyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:37383afa1bce/It can feel like the world’s most spectacular wilderness; the savage beauty of Connemara2021-11-17T15:37:38+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2021/nov/17/it-can-feel-like-the-worlds-most-spectacular-wilderness-the-savage-beauty-of-connemara
jmconnemara ireland nature wildernesshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:335af88ece6c/Ireland's climate change advisory council's _Technical Report on Carbon Budgets_ for 20212021-10-26T09:28:18+00:00
https://www.climatecouncil.ie/media/climatechangeadvisorycouncil/Technical%20report%20on%20carbon%20budgets%2025.10.2021.pdf
jmco2 ghgs carbon climate-change ireland ccac futurehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:3dcd9c0cf35d/GNI report on biomethane generation in Ireland2021-10-22T08:48:05+00:00
https://www.gasnetworks.ie/biomethane-sustainability-report-2021.pdf
jmbiogas biomethane methane fuel ireland sustainability climate-change gni farminghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:5e21011430d2/_Endgame: A zero-carbon electricity plan for Ireland_2021-10-05T08:44:17+00:00
https://windenergyireland.com/images/files/20210629-baringa-endgame-final-version.pdf
jmReducing power sector CO2 emissions in Ireland from around 9 million tonnes today to a target of less than 2 million tonnes of CO2 per year is very achievable by 2030, using the approach currently underway to achieve the ‘70 by 30’ target, and implementing more of existing and proven technologies;
The current Programme for Government renewable capacity targets of 8.2 GW of onshore wind and 5 GW of offshore wind by 2030 should be maintained, with an additional target of 5 GW of solar PV.
This target can be achieved at a lower cost to the end consumer in Ireland, compared to delivery of the less ambitious ‘70 by 30’ target.
A zero-carbon power system is possible by 2030 and represents an achievable target in the 2030s.]]>wind-energy energy ireland future 2030 climate-change co2 solar-power carbonhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:229f76663cf8/ComReg SiteViewer2021-09-27T14:46:14+00:00
https://siteviewer.comreg.ie/
jmcomreg telecoms 3g 4g 5g networking isps coverage irelandhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:ac78c6a46d97/Build-To-Rent (BTR), Aparthotels, and Irish housing policy2021-08-31T10:36:42+00:00
https://twitter.com/RobJCurley/status/1432612719530762242
jmliving ireland apartments rental btr aparthotels housing policy fghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:698589bedb94/DCC's greenwashing PR2021-08-11T09:05:26+00:00
https://twitter.com/robbiesemple/status/1425166523451289605
jmpr greenwashing dcc ireland via:robbie-semple net-zero fossil-fuels climate-change emissions scope-3 scope-1 scope-2https://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a73b50aca50f/Half cooked & half raw: the Irish tradition of spuds with a moon2021-07-30T14:11:31+00:00
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2021/0728/1237809-potatoes-with-the-moon-ghealach-potatoes-with-the-bone/
jm[...] a method of cookery practiced by the rural poor in the early to mid 19th century Ireland [...] Parboiling or half-roasting rendered a potato that was at once half-cooked and half-raw, with the inner core hard to the bite. Potatoes cooked in this way were called potatoes with the moon (an ghealach) or potatoes with the bone.
William Wilde, father of Oscar, describes the practice in some detail in his essay, ‘The Food of the Irish’, which was published in 1854 in the Dublin University Magazine. Here is his explanation of the practice: "the heart of the potato was allowed, by checking the boiling at a particular point, to remain parboiled, hard and waxy; when the rest of the potato has been masticated in the usual manner, this hard lump, about the size of a walnut, was bolted; and in this manner nearly a stone of the root was taken into the stomach of the Irish labourer per diem… it was grounded on a certain knowledge of physiology.
"The stomach digested the well boiled farinaceous portion of the potato within the space of a few hours, and that having all been disposed of, the half-boiled lumps remained behind, and a second digestion was commenced to assimilate this portion of food, and convert it into nutritious, life-sustaining material; which latter process lasted some hours longer, and thus the craving of hunger were warded off for five or six hours after the original meal."
]]>parboiling potatoes history hunger ireland rural spuds moon physiologyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d46a8ca1c0e8/Outdoor Swimming Pools in Ireland2021-07-28T09:50:50+00:00
https://www.mykidstime.com/travel/outdoor-swimming-pools-in-ireland/
jmswimming ireland outdoors heated pools kidshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:84e3ef7210f1/“Brides to be” & Bullshit – A case study in Irish astroturf2021-07-28T09:31:39+00:00
https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/osw7ce/brides_to_be_bullshit_a_case_study_in_irish/
jmprotests ireland pr astroturfhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:10fc878870d9/A potted history of IONA Technologies' early years2021-07-01T11:34:21+00:00
https://techarchives.irish/anniversaries/
jmiona software dublin iona-technologies history 1991 startups irelandhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:6b79f45482d4/The model used to simulate the Irish COVID-19 response2021-07-01T08:39:12+00:00
https://twitter.com/President_MU/status/1410315246791802884
jmmodelling data-science statistics epidemiology pandemics covid-19 sars-cov-2 ireland philip-nolan seirhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:21e859682f26/Met Éireann's IREPS weather forecasting system2021-06-02T13:53:38+00:00
https://www.met.ie/upgrade-to-met-eireanns-weather-forecast-system-april-may-2020
jmharmonie met-eireann weather forecasting modelling ireps irelandhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0b4aa80d975a/Dr Rory Hearne: The Government does not want you to be able to afford to buy a home2021-05-06T08:43:47+00:00
https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/ireland-investment-housing-5428746-May2021/
jm
The Government has been called on to do something to stop this. Even Fianna Fáil politicians have come out crying crocodile tears of outrage. But the truth is the investor purchase of housing in Ireland on a major scale is actually Government policy and has been for the last decade.
The Government does not actually want you to be able to buy or rent an affordable home. They have created an unaffordable housing system that is focused on delivering housing as an investment asset, not a home.[...]
This current crisis has been brewing for a long time. It goes back to the Celtic Tiger days of the late 1990s and early 2000s when the Fianna Fáil-PD Governments encouraged the shift from housing to be treated as a home, to people buying it up as an investment asset.
They told people to speculate in the property market and gave tax breaks for landlords to buy a second, or third, home to rent out. These became the ‘buy-to-let’ investors. The banks lent out massively which added fuel to the fire of rising housing prices, and the inevitable crash happened in 2008 and 2009.
As their response to the disaster they had created, Fianna Fáil turned to global ‘vulture’ funds to buy up the bad loans and failed housing projects. They set up the ‘bad bank’ NAMA, which went on, under the Fine Gael Government from 2011 to the current day, to sell off (at a discount) huge land banks and billions of euro worth of properties to vulture and real estate investment funds.
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reits real-estate ireland politics housing homes rory-hearnehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c23143f1035d/Medieval Archaeology of Ireland – Google My Maps2021-04-28T11:19:06+00:00
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1cDpanER1f_Ssf_xJWJylNWh7jfhCk-4i&ll=53.44876031050477%2C-8.30744351749999&z=7
jmvia:its maps ireland history monuments castles archaeologyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:5ef9309bbf9e/The lost art of 'booleying' in Ireland's uplands2021-04-28T09:17:39+00:00
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2021/0422/1211486-the-lost-art-of-booleying-in-irelands-uplands/
jmby the 1800s, it was mostly young people and teenage girls especially who had the job of looking after cows at these seasonal ‘boolies’.
This gave rise to a vibrant but now largely forgotten cultural scene in Ireland’s uplands. Oral history collected in the 1930s and 1940s in Connemara, Mayo, Donegal, and the Galtee Mountains makes clear that booleying facilitated the transmission of a lot of important cultural knowledge.
One man from Cloch Cheannaola in Donegal states that his mother had learned her songs from other dairymaids in the hills, while another account from Iorras Aintheach in Galway outlines how the girls not only sang but played musical instruments and danced as well. [....]
The small degree of independence which young women gained as participants in booleying was sometimes missed later on in life. There is an unmistakeable sense of loss in songs like Na Gamhna Geala and Aililiú na Gamhna, in which married women reminisce about their time looking after cows and calves in the hills.
]]>transhumance booleying history ireland rural achill galway donegal mayo connemarahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:df8e9bd34c46/Green Atlantic at Moneypoint2021-04-12T10:00:12+00:00
https://www.esb.ie/our-businesses/generation-energy-trading-new/green-atlantic-at-moneypoint
jmmoneypoint ireland green energy emissions carbon future wind-energy hydrogenhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:75ab0ac2c424/Green Plan Ireland2021-03-22T09:43:19+00:00
http://dconnolly.net/greenplanireland/
jmGreen Plan Ireland is based on a peer-reviewed scientific paper I published in the International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management, which outlines how Ireland can transition to a 100% renewable energy system without increasing the costs of energy, but while creating 100,000 additional jobs at the same time. The key steps required in a 100% renewable energy system are:
Expanding electricity production from onshore wind, offshore wind, and solar panels;
Converting the heat supply in Irish cities from gas boilers to district heating;
Converting the individual boilers in the rural areas from coal and oil to electric heat pumps;
Converting our cars from petrol and diesel to electricity;
Producing liquid and gaseous fuels from a combination of carbon dioxide and hydrogen, which are known as synthetic fuels
]]>ireland green energy future net-zero renewables climate-changehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:638bafc6eb4c/Iona Technologies' 30 year anniversary2021-03-19T11:41:32+00:00
https://techarchives.irish/anniversaries-1990-1999/#march1991
jmiona-technologies history ireland tech software corba tcdhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:6a8df82ee21b/SARS-CoV-2 variants in Ireland2021-02-13T12:37:09+00:00
https://twitter.com/HIVTox/status/1359613752941965313
jm
1. Effective lockdown leading to low transmission rates can essentially eliminate common #SARS_CoV_2 variants contributing to disease
..BUT..
2. ..new variants can be introduced (likely [via] travel) that seed new waves of #COVID19.
As daily infections fall, hopefully correct implementation of new travel restrictions can help stop future W4 of #COVID19Ireland. We also hope that this data helps people understand how travel contributes to new #COVID19 infections (and new variants) coming into the country.
]]>variants ireland papers covid-19 transmissionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a88b1248bc2c/Buying From Amazon UK After Brexit2021-01-19T23:18:33+00:00
https://www.moneyguideireland.com/buying-from-amazon-uk-after-brexit.html
jmbrexit shipping shopping amazon uk irelandhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c2e64064d882/restaurants/pubs and Ireland's third wave of COVID-192021-01-18T09:27:13+00:00
https://twitter.com/andrewflood/status/1351088338640449536
jmcovid-19 restaurants pubs ireland rai pandemics epidemiologyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0db53a09b27c/Mason, Thomas Holmes (1877-1958)2021-01-10T23:35:05+00:00
https://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do;jsessionid=2558B9D6659F2E9DF0BBCCCF25CFCEB8?articleId=a5497
jm
Mason was a keen cyclist; his tours through the Irish countryside as a youth, as well as his interest in photography from the age of twelve (he would take over 20,000 pictures by his death), led him to the study of the natural world and Irish archaeology. This culminated in his publication of The islands of Ireland: their scenery, people, life and antiquities (1936), visually recording the minutiae of Irish folk life and the natural beauty of the island landscapes.
Mason did not restrict his interests to any one discipline and was involved in a multifarious range of organisations: member of the Dublin Field Club, one-time president of the Irish Society for the Protection of Birds, member of the Dublin Zoological Council (serving as honorary vice-president from 1952), member and president (1926) of the Photography Society of Ireland, member of the Geographical Society of Ireland, and member of the National Monuments Council as well as president (1951) of An Taisce. He was also president of the Dublin Mercantile Association (1923) and the Dublin Rotary Club and a fellow of the RSAI.
He was elected MRIA (1931) and contributed numerous articles to the Academy's Transactions and Proceedings on subjects ranging from the history of the optical profession in Dublin to Celtic archaeology. Mason provided meteorological information to Irish newspapers from his home observatory at 39 Kenilworth Square before the establishment of the Irish meteorological service (1936). His other interests included Irish moths as well as Irish lantern slides, on which he published Catalogue of photographic lantern slides of Irish scenery and antiquities [n.d.] and Catalogue of lantern slides of Irish antiquities (1928).
Mason was the seventh member of his family to be made an honorary freeman of the city of Dublin (29 April 1903), one of the last such hereditary appointments. His wife Margaret Evelyn, whom he married c.1909, was a fellow presbyterian. Three of his four sons succeeded him in the family business, which celebrated its bicentenary in 1980 and traded into the third millennium. He died on 12 February 1958, leaving his library to the Old Dublin Society and TCD.
(Also at https://www.dib.ie/biography/mason-thomas-holmes-a5497 ).]]>family thomas-mason history ireland archaeology photographyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:2dae7a3156e4/the current Irish COVID-19 spike starts from the date of pubs reopening2021-01-06T23:21:48+00:00
https://twitter.com/andrewflood/status/1346199731912007685
jmNPHET slide from tonights press conference appears to show almost 2,000 cases by December 23rd when shown by collection date. And escalation from 10 days after restaurant pubs opened on Dec 4th is unmistakable.
]]>pubs ireland covid-19 via:andrew-flood nphet caseshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:3f1862168ff3/misleading reliance on pointing to "household transmission" for COVID-19 in Ireland2020-11-24T11:56:00+00:00
https://www.independent.ie/world-news/coronavirus/virus-spread-how-a-single-household-transmission-led-to-46-covid-19-cases-39772640.html
jmA team of public health specialists in the midlands traced how a case of household transmission led to 26 cases of Covid-19 in a manufacturing plant and a further 20 cases in other households, a nursing home and a school.
The first case, or “index case” they became aware of was a woman who worked in a manufacturing plant. Household transmission of the virus occurred when a person she was living with, who had acquired Covid in a pub, passed the virus to her.
So in other words -- the true index case was the person in the pub, or at the very least, her housemate who picked up COVID-19 in the pub, and this was a case where the pub was the initial cluster location, leading to 47 further cases. But for some reason, the article chooses "household transmission" as the headline...
]]>pubs restaurants covid-19 safety epidemiology ireland contact-tracing public-health households transmissionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:95ae21fc051b/I made a fully playable Map of Europe in Minecraft, 1:230 scale, using NASA and ESA satellite data2020-11-19T10:13:44+00:00
https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/jwh5j1/i_made_a_fully_playable_map_of_europe_in/
jmTo make this fully playable Minecraft map of Europe I used the program QGIS to analyze and adapt the NASA Elevation data, GEBCO Bathymetry data, ESA Land Cover data and WWF HydroSHEDS River data. The layers were then exported and worked on in the program WorldPainter to make the Minecraft world. The whole process took me 1 month, but this was the result of years of researching and mapmaking.
]]>qgis nasa gebco esa mapping maps europe ireland minecrafthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a89ad5130de7/50 beautiful Irish crafts to buy, and the people who make them2020-11-12T23:06:04+00:00
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/50-beautiful-irish-crafts-to-buy-and-the-people-who-make-them-1.4398818
jmcrafts art ireland irish gifts xmashttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:2d714902d480/r/Ireland Christmas Market2020-10-20T12:56:24+00:00
https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/jdxbsx/rireland_christmas_market/
jmreddit ireland shopping christmas gifts shopshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f913f145df14/JustBuyIrish.com2020-10-19T21:06:53+00:00
https://justbuyirish.com/
jmshops ireland irish webhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:468daeb663e1/Click for home: The best Irish websites for online shoppers2020-10-13T13:27:41+00:00
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/consumer/click-for-home-the-best-irish-websites-for-online-shoppers-1.4351678
jmshopping presents gifts ireland localhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7a6477a4899c/COVID-19 IRELAND: IRISH FOOD DELIVERY SERVICES [MEGAPOST]2020-10-11T22:31:00+00:00
https://gastrogays.com/covid-irish-food-deliveries/
jmfood eating gastronomy ireland delivery shopping yumhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c28e3687a366/FactCheck: Many of the claims made about Covid-19 in a leaflet sent to Dublin households are false or misleading2020-10-08T10:32:27+00:00
https://www.thejournal.ie/vaccine-covid-misinformation-ireland-5216108-Oct2020/
jmdebunking fact-checks aci ireland propaganda covid-19 conspiracy-theories journalhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:63974ca349ab/Marc Bevand's cases-vs-deaths graph for Florida2020-10-06T10:34:02+00:00
https://twitter.com/firefoxx66/status/1296080759749582848/photo/1
jmireland covid-19 pandemic via:firefoxx66https://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:bd2ecc6c0893/Selling Our Genes: Government inaction allowing private sector to take control of our DNA2020-10-05T09:56:24+00:00
https://www.thejournal.ie/selling-our-genes-5219781-Oct2020/
jmGenuity Science, the main company involved in DNA sequencing in Ireland, has at least 25 links to facilities around Ireland. These include funding and collaborations with major hospitals, universities, research facilities and charities.
A collaboration agreement signed between Genuity Science and UCD is “restrictive”, according to an academic expert, though Genuity Science Ireland disagree with this assessment. We have the full details in this breakout article.
Hospital clinicians have become “agents of a company” due to the nature of agreements in place, according to experts.
Researchers are making “the best of the situation” in Ireland by working with the private sector but most would prefer a public system due to data access concerns.
Lack of Government policy and adequate regulation means that private companies have no limit on how long they have exclusive access to the data they collect from Irish patients.
Researchers and patient representatives are concerned about a potential erosion of trust in genetics research in Ireland.
]]>genomics genuity genetics ucd gmi ireland data-privacy data-protection researchhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:ec2dde2c0218/Brand New Retro: Survival in a Nuclear War2020-09-21T10:55:59+00:00
https://www.totallydublin.ie/more/brand-new-retro-survival-in-a-nuclear-war/
jm1960s nuclear-war history ireland ephemera civil-defencehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:8c6b43b599cf/