Irish Bookmaker Paddy Power Launches Online Betting on the Lottery

“Paddy Power” by Albert Bridge (CC BY-SA 2.0)   Paddy Power are perhaps Ireland’s best-known bookmaker with a raft of betting shops all over the Emerald Isle including some in Tipperary. With those retail outlets now shut, they have launched an online lotto service so that people can continue to play the National Lottery every week. […]

Paddy Power iPad app gallops to victory at The Appys 2014

The Paddy Power iPad App beat off very strong competition to be crowned Grand Prix winner of The Appys 2014.   “The Grand Prix was awarded to the Paddy Power iPad App because the judges felt its design, functionality and the thought that went into its development raises the bar in terms of app development,” says says Des Doris, […]

Can Facebook be an indicator of election results in North Tipperary?

Candidate.ie is an experimental research project which aims to track social media activity in the forthcoming Irish General Election campaign. It’s a pretty straightforward idea – collect links to every candidate’s profile on social networking sites and present them along with their rivals in each constituency. In that way, visitors to the site can easily […]