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Penguin is the codename given to the over-optimization update (which many are calling a penalty).

Timeline on Recent Google Algorithm Updates

• March 23rd – Panda Rollout
• April 19th – Panda Rollout (which everyone seems to have missed)
• April 24th – Penguin Update (over-optimization)

If you have lost lots of rankings or think you may be hit by an over-optimization penalty from Google, the place to start is to look at the timing of the drop.  Does it coincide with the dates of any of the updates?  Because which update it coincides with will give you great clues as to what caused the drop and what you need to fix.

Panda has been rolling out for over a year now so there is plenty of information on the kinds of sites that are getting hit.  The over-optimization penalty, which has had everyone in uproar is, according to Google, only affecting 3.1% of sites but you wouldn’t know it by the reaction.  Matt Cutts was at pains to re-focus coverage of this update and point out that they are targeting web spam rather than SEO.

Initial indications are that Penguin is hitting sites with poor link profiles.  You know those scalable, low quality, easy to get links we’ve been railing against?

We’ll try and post an analysis of the factors being targeted on Monday.

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The official Google Search blog  calls it: ‘Another step to reward high-quality sites’ understandably putting a positive spin on another algorithmic update aimed at combating  webspam.  This is the change which was flagged in Google’s announcements on  ‘over optimization’ a few weeks ago.  Matt Cutts told Search Engine Land:

“I think ‘over-optimization’ wasn’t the best description, because it blurred the distinction between white hat SEO and webspam. This change is targeted at webspam, not SEO, and we tried to make that fact more clear in the blog post,”

Under the spotlight are techniques like keyword stuffing and link schemes and Google reckon 3.1% of sites in English will be affected in a way that would be noticeable to the user.  There is much discussion about whether or not this and other updates are penalising the right sites and doubtless there will be much more.  Seemingly aware of a common SEO frustration in the face of the effectiveness of unapproved methods, Matt Cutts ends his post with:

“We want people doing white hat search engine optimization (or even no search engine optimization at all) to be free to focus on creating amazing, compelling web sites. As always, we’ll keep our ears open for feedback on ways to iterate and improve our ranking algorithms toward that goal.”

Panda updated (quietly) on April 19th

During all the confusion caused by Google’s announcement of over optimization penalties, many site owners and researchers have been attributing ranking drops to possible over optimization.  This could be a little hasty, as Google also quietly slipped in its latest Panda update on the 19th of this month.  If your site has seen ranking losses in the last week or so and you’re blaming over-optimization, the chances are you should be looking at Panda instead.

April 19th Panda Update: Winners and Losers

Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land has published  data on winners and losers  from the latest Panda update.   It makes interesting reading and there are significant winners.

Searchmetrics points to the following factors in relation to the main losers:

• Sites using databases to aggregate information
• Press portals and aggregators
• Heavily-templated web sites

As ever with this type of research, you can make no assumptions.  If your traffic reports show you have lost out you can only use these findings to test the many reasons which may have caused it.

3 functions are being removed from Google Webmaster Tools

The Webmaster Central blog announced on Tuesday  that the Subscriber stats feature, the Create robots.txt tool, and the Site performance feature will be removed in the next two weeks.  If you use these features, do not worry.  There are other ways.  Site performance can be monitored using the Site Speed feature in analytics and subscriber stats can be found in Feedburner.  There are many tools available online to help you create a robots.txt file if you need one.

How does a Search Engine work?

Not a question that can be answered in a 7 minute video but Matts Cutts youtube posting on Monday does give some useful basic insights into the workings of the Google engine.

It’s almost all about Google

Search engine, Blekko, are reporting a huge spike in traffic since January of this year.  Their stats come from hitwise and are backed up by comScore.  Bing, DuckDuckGo and Blekko are just about preventing it from being all about Google in the US, but only just.

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In the video, Matt explains the process of how Google:

• Crawls the web
• Indexes those pages
• Ranks and serves results

He explains changes over time in the crawling process as well as the importance of PageRank for crawl priority.  He goes on to give a broad outline of a crawling system favouring important (high PR) and fresh content.

Matt gives a basic explanation of an inverted index and a basic process for starting to select the documents relevant to any given query.  He doesn’t go into great detail on how Google ranks results but then you wouldn’t expect him to.

Many people will watch this video and hear nothing but PageRank so I just wanted to pick a couple of things out here:

What Google is looking to find:

“Reputable documents that are also about what the user typed in”

The Secret Sauce

“Trying to figure out a way to combine those 200 ranking signals to find the most relevant document.”

I have very little time for SEOs who quote the 200 ranking signals thing as though we know all the answers and you can never figure them out.  It’s really important though to understand that this is NOT all or even mostly about Page Rank.  Yes Google is looking to serve sites and pages with reputation but it needs to be the most relevant document with reputation.

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It’s a one-day training course covering the fundamentals of SEO.  What that means in practice is that we start from the basics but cover some pretty advanced concepts through the day.  Helping participants form the foundation of their SEO strategy.  That includes touching on areas like content planning, content marketing and social media.

If you have a strong interest, you could do this course as a beginner.  If you have some experience with SEO, it will still be very worthwhile.

The course is suitable for site owners wanting to do their own SEO, or those who may choose to work with sub-contractors but need a better understanding to get that right.  It would also be suitable for designers or coders who understand the importance of SEO and the need to build it into projects early.

Learn Tactics Relevant for 2012

In 2012, things are moving in the search world, particularly with Google.  Many sites and most contractors are still chasing last year’s ranking factors and aren’t doing themselves any favours.

Book or Find Out More

You can find more details of the training day and an outline of the course content is available on request.  Click here for more details.

You can of course contact us by all the usual means, if you have any questions.

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Strategically attracting links through content, design, relationships and integrity can transform the success of your site.

You could divide the links that you build down further. Some built links are directory submissions, some are done through finding sites that allow you to add content and don’t notice the links. Some are done by simply contacting people and asking for them. Others are gained from link networks like the one Google just delisted.

I have nothing against building links. There should probably be built links in every link profile. There are high-end link builders who put great time and effort into effective link building strategies. There are good built links and bad ones.

Having got that out of the way, I want to discuss the advantages of attracting links through content strategy rather than building them through tricks.

Building Links Through Tricks

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When people build links they tend to do so where it is easy. Contractors seek scalable tactics that they can use again and again, that they can sub-contract or that can be farmed out to a junior. They do this so they can deliver links at a price the customer is willing to pay. Site owners doing their own SEO also tend towards easy to get, scalable links. They have time pressures, they have knowledge gaps and this link building task is just a means to an end. The quicker and more efficiently it can be achieved the better, right?

There is a problem with scalable link building though. This approach focusses on links that are easy to get and easy to repeat. For one reason or another they are usually the lowest value links. Worse than this, today’s tricks are usually the focus of tomorrow’s Google update. When Google further devalues the links you built or the domain you exploited or the link network you use, you find out that your rankings are built on sand.

Strategically Attracting Links Through Content

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Attracting links, and these days social mentions, through content is a much harder process but is vital if you are serious about your site. Its disadvantage versus building links is obvious. It takes more investment both in time and money and it is harder. Its advantages are perhaps less obvious.

Earned links are harder to replicate

If you can pay $5 for someone to build 500 links, it’s not a stretch to think your competitor could do the same and then where are we? Some computer program in the Phillipines just got an extra 10 minutes work, you and your competitor are down $5 each and you’ve both got more links from a series of unimpressive sources. Not everyone wants to put the effort into content and take the risk that even when created it does no good. Not everyone has any knowledge about their business, or their product, or the interests of their customers.

If you earn links through your content it is much harder for competitors to copy you. They are more likely to buy another few lots of $5 links and scratch their heads when their rankings drop.

Content can earn better links

Think of where you would really like to get links from. Really strong sites with trust and authority. If you have given any thought to link building or to your market at all online, you can probably think of a few sites that you would really like a link from. These are usually sites that aren’t going to link to you just because you ask. If that was going to work you’d have already done it, right? And so would your competitors. What would motivate them to link to a site? The answer to that question often involves developing content.

Content and future ranking factors

Look at anything about where Google is going with how they rank sites and you’ll find content is central.

• They are increasingly using social signals and content is the fuel for your social media.
• They are looking at user data and content that serves your users will help there.

Google’s aim is to provide the best results for the query at hand. They fail frequently but they constantly progress. Relying on tricks to hit yesterday’s ranking factors is not the way to stay ahead of the game.

I don’t want to be too simplistic here. Content is not a panacea and link building is not all bad. The term “content marketing” has sprung up over the last few years and gone from an SEO tactic to a whole specialism. It’s “content marketing” though. Not content writing and then sitting looking at a screen wondering when the benefit will come. Strategically attracting links through content is not a passive process. You still need to get out there and build relationships and find ways to give your content reach. You may even be using some old style link building tactics.

The difference between content and tricks comes down to this. Who do you want to share and link to your content?

5 of your potential customers?

or

25 of the alter ego accounts of your contractor?

Maybe you don’t care as long as your rankings go up. But if you are interested in where your rankings will be next year, I would care.

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“The changes to search are among the biggest in the company’s history and could affect millions of websites that rely on Google’s current page-ranking results.”

Given that site owners might be expecting earth shattering changes and potentially destructive effects on their rankings and traffic, I thought I’d take a look at what we might expect.

The piece is based on comments from Amit Singhal and says that Google isn’t replacing it’s current search system.  It mentions developments that sparked a fair bit of chatter about how big a deal this will be.  The 3 things I’d like to pick out from the WSJ article are these:

• Semantic search
• Named entities
• Presenting more than a list of blue links

The first two sound pretty scary and this is where a lot of the debate has focused for the last few weeks.  Semantic search basically refers to trying to understand the meaning behind terms, their context and searcher intent, as opposed to just understanding keywords and looking for matches.  The named entities bit is suggesting that Google will change what it presents for certain queries.  Instead of just looking for keyword matches on websites, it will consider it’s database of named entities (people, or places or things) and return information on that entity.

So how big a deal is this?

The first thing to say is that if you are in SEO, neither semantic search or named entities should be new to you.

In 2003, Google merged with a company called Applied Semantics a developer of “meaning-based” search technology.  The approach from Applied Semantics uses combinations of related terms to attempt to find relevant results for a query phrase.  Google has also filed patents based on phrase based indexing techniques that consider things like clusters of co-existing phrases and how they can help determine between different meanings.  Google’s work on better understanding search terms, their intents and the relationships between them has been ongoing for many years.  Even if you are not an avid researcher of Google’s patent filings, you’ve noticed search suggestions and Adwords broad matching.

Named entities are not a new concept either.  Google has attempted to detect them and link them with particular pages and has altered its results based on that information.

Is this just old news then?

The quick answer to that is no.  I have a bad feeling about this.

Looking at named entities as an example, the WSJ piece talks about presenting users with facts and figures about “Lake Tahoe” instead of just a link to the visitor information center.  It talks about how semantic search can help Google draw connections between Google the company and it’s founders (named entities).  What this comes down to is that the major change is likely to be the third in our list, i.e. presentation.

Presenting more than just a list of blue links

We assume they have been deepening their use of semantic search and any tactics they can find to better understand queries, intents and relationships between phrases and concepts.  Maybe they’ve gone another step and maybe not.   We know they have been recognizing named entities and altering search pages based on that knowledge.  What they are about to do that could screw your site, though,  is mess with their results page again.

Consider eye-tracking data from SEOmoz:

Google Place '7 - Pack' Gets Lots of Attention

It shows the impact of the addition of Google Places results on the traditional dominance the top results have on our attention.

The point is that changes to the presentation of results can have a huge impact.  Even if they don’t make any change to where you rank in the main results they can vastly change the VALUE of where you rank.  How will Google mix its results and its Google+ information and its new data on named entities?  Who knows but my bet is they won’t do it well and it could hurt.

While we are on this subject, spare a thought for the websites that provide that data on “Lake Tahoe”.  No more visits for you, cause Google has already answered the question before they got to your site.

Google Places, product search, Google+ and this development.  They’ve all attempted to serve more and more of the information you look for from Google properties.  All taken more space from the traditional search results to replace them with links to Google data.  They’ve all had impacts on the traffic of websites for the queries they have been shown for.  Expect more of this.

Personally I hate this trend.  Not as an SEO.  As a marketer, it is my job to roll with whatever punches come my way.  As a user, I hate it.  A search engine is there for me to find websites.  That’s its job and Google moves away from that core function at its peril.  I don’t want Google to answer questions for me (unless I ask it to, I suppose).  I want to find out what the web says about something.  I want to find an authoritative resource or the Lake Tahoe visitor center website or a shop that sells the shoes I’m looking for.  There have been answer engines before, how much traffic do they have?  I hate this trend as a user and I can only hope that other users agree because the web needs a search engine not just an ad platform full of other people’s content.

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BuildMyRank.com has admitted that the majority of its pages have been de-indexed by Google. There is much speculation about how many other similar sites have been hit. That Google is very much on their case can no longer be called speculation.

@danthies ah, glad you noticed that. Good to see at trafficplanet.com/topic/1885-aln… that it’s on peoples’ radar that they’re on our radar. — Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) March 15, 2012

As Barry Schwartz at search engine round table says:

There are rumors that other networks have also been hit but none have come out saying so, outside of BuildMyRank.com. What is funny is that they said, “in our wildest dreams, there’s no way we could have imagined this happening.” And I am thinking, wow – people really think this will work in the long run?

So, if link networks and other scalable shortcuts and programmes are the basis for your link building.  In 2012.  What are you thinking?

Google Tweet a Panda Refresh

Reportedly tweeted by Matt Cutts himself and the first announcement of its kind made via twitter, there are interesting discussions going on about the effects of the refresh and whether or not it is actually Panda related!

Layoffs at Yahoo!

Kara Swisher at AllThingsD reports on plans to layoff  thousands of staff at Yahoo!

Facebook plans to improve its search capabilities

Internal search is notoriously bad on Facebook and they appear to be making a big effort to make improvements. Bloomberg Business Week look into the possibility that they will eventually move into the global search market.

Google in trouble over privacy again

There have been many high-profile cases against Google on privacy issues, particularly in Europe. Now a Tokyo court has ruled against Google and demanded that they delete certain terms from their auto-complete. The case was brought by a Japanese lawyer who claims he lost his job and failed his subsequent applications because the Google auto-complete was associating his name with a series of criminal acts of which he had no knowledge. Google is refusing to be bound by Japanese law. From the Japan Times:

Before turning to the court last October, the man asked Google to delete certain words from the feature. Google refused on the grounds that the suggested words were being selected mechanically, not intentionally, and thus do not violate his privacy, the lawyer said.

This must surely be the cop-out of all cop-outs.

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Google Analytics

Probably the most common monitoring is Google Analytics.  Google Analytics is a freely available analytics package that allows you to track visitors to your site.

Google Analytics can Provide Details on:

• Numbers of visits to your site
• Numbers of sales leads generated
• Where visitors are coming from
• Where sales leads are coming from
• What content is converting to leads
• What search terms and which ads convert to leads

Monitoring Search Positions

Monitoring search positions is important.  Keeping a periodic record of ranking for your most important terms is also good.  You need to know what is working and what isn’t and that means having a record of changes that you make and having a record of your rankings over time.

With personalisation and social becoming more and more a part of how search engines work, it is not really viable to just check your rankings on your machine by going to Google.  There are many 3rd party rank checkers available.  They range from free to around €60 a month (usually as part of larger SEO and marketing toolsets).  As well as saving you time and effort in checking your results, these tools should avoid you getting a false indication of where you are, based on personalisation.

Monitoring is vital but beware of getting obsessed.  If you find yourself checking rankings every hour or so and looking up Google to see if the changes you made have taken effect, you will be wasting your time.   Set up proper monitoring.  Weekly or monthly is enough for most cases.  You may use your monitoring tool to check up more often to monitor a specific change from time to time but don’t get stuck wasting your day.  That time could be used getting links or generating fantastic content or fixing problems on your site.

Monitoring Links and Social Mentions

Tracking inbound links to your site and factors like social media mentions is also an important part of your monitoring.  Building social mentions, building social reach and building links are all part of the goals of the content marketing we will discuss later in the guide.  Monitoring these factors allows you to gauge:

A) the impact your efforts are having in getting more links, more mentions etc. and

B) the impact that links and social reach are having on your search rankings.

Just like with links, more and more social monitoring tools are popping up all the time.

Ongoing Process

SEO is an ongoing process and monitoring from the start is central to getting that process right.

• Try things
• Testing, testing and more testing
• Monitor your results
• Do more of what works
• Change or discontinue what doesn’t

This post is part of our 12 Post SEO Guide, an ongoing series.  If you would like to keep up to date you can follow the blog through RSS or follow us on Twitter.

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Bizible has just published the first of five planned reports on Google Places optimisation.  Google places has a massive hold on local search and local search has a massive and increasing effect on many businesses.  This is a detailed and well researched report and essential reading for anyone involved in local SEO.  Many of the findings are interesting and some are surprising.  The full report is: Local Ranking Factors Study 1 of 5 – Google Places Optimization.  Here are one or two findings:

• Having the search category in your business name is a strong ranking factor.
• Make sure your targeted search categories (keywords) and location appear in the “at a glance” section.
• The mere presence of a business description does not improve rankings.  Having the search category in your business description does.
• Having an average review score of less than 1 hurts your rankings.  Increasing this to just below 5 makes for some but very little improvement.
• Reaching 5 Google reviews significantly improves ranking. You have to get to 100+ for the next significant gain.!!!

Moral: Don’t write anything without keyword targeting.  Hustle for 5 reviews and then don’t panic about competitors who have 40.

If  local search is where it is at for you, watch out for the next 4 reports:

1. On-site optimization
2. Citations
3. Reviews
4. In-bound links and off-site

Google working on ‘Over-optimized’ penalty

In recent training day discussions a sort of content writing mantra developed around here:

• Research your keywords
• Use natural language

AND

• You are more likely to get in trouble for over-optimisation than under-optimisation

Here it is from the horse’s mouth, in this case Matt Cutt’s from Google:

What about the people optimizing really hard and doing a lot of SEO. We don’t normally pre-announce changes but there is something we are working in the last few months and hope to release it in the next months or few weeks. We are trying to level the playing field a bit. All those people doing, for lack of a better word, over optimization or overly SEO – versus those making great content and great site. We are trying to make GoogleBot smarter, make our relevance better, and we are also looking for those who abuse it, like too many keywords on a page, or exchange way too many links or go well beyond what you normally expect. We have several engineers on my team working on this right now.

Barry Schwartz transcribed this from the published audio of a Search Engine Land panel discussion called: Dear Google & Bing: Help Me Rank Better!

The ever changing world of search results

About the only thing you can say with certainty about search is that it will be different tomorrow and a recent WSJ article points to some, apparently, radical possibilities being looked at by Google.  I say apparently because it is pretty easy to argue that semantic search has been around for a long time and that the article is discussing fairly predictable consequences.  That Google is looking for active ways to keep people on their site and away from the sites of competitors like Facebook, for example, is interesting.  Interesting, mostly, for the effect it could have on the look of  search result pages.  Eye-tracking research already tells us how important such visual changes can be and SEO strategies will need to be ready to react.

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The task of attracting natural links and social mentions through content marketing is an important part of modern SEO.  We talk a lot about working to identify markets for your content.  In large part, that means identifying individuals who control links or who are active on social networks.  Traditional media and bloggers both come slap bang into the middle of that process.  So PR and SEO are fields that have been getting closer over the last few years.  Having an experienced PR professional discuss using social media to identify and reach out to journalists and bloggers is right up my street.

The talk was great, so congrats to Eoin Kennedy who presented and to the Fingal Business Network for a fantastic event and an impressive turnout.   If you are interested, you can see the slide deck from the event here: http://www.slideshare.net/eoink/fingal-ceb-online-pr

List of Irish Media on Twitter

Before I get to the list, I should say that this is not some target list for you to spam.  It is an opportunity to listen and engage with media relevant to what you do.  Some of those listed here barely use Twitter at all or only to spew out intro’s to their stories.  Others are openly engaged in discussion and some are actively soliciting story ideas in their profile description.  All the usual social media warnings apply.  You should probably listen more than you talk.

I have included all the media types I could find.  Only some of them will be relevant to what you do.  Only some will say things that interest you.  Only some will cover areas where your expertise might someday add something.  Hopefully the list can provide a starting point and help you find the journalists that are relevant to your message.  You can find out what they have to say, identify what kinds of stories they cover and perhaps figure out how you could help them.  If what they talk about interests you, you can comment and start a relationship.

Irish Journalists and Media, Twitter List

The following list of journalists and Irish media includes names, twitter handles and twitter descriptions.  Where email addresses and telephone numbers were included in descriptions, we have edited them out so as not to make the job of spam bots any easier.  You can click on the link to the twitter profile  and find the details there.

Margaret Ward @MargaretWardRTE
RTE journalist ( Irish radio and television) covering international news, for Morning Ireland, Six One, 9 news, Primetime and World Report. Views are my own

Clare Kleinedler @clarekleinedler
Freelance Journalist & Social Media Editor for @Cybercom. Views are my own.

Philip Bromwell @philipbromwell
Video journalist with RTÉ. I film. I edit. I tell stories. LFC fan and daddy to two little girls. All views are my own.

Mary Kennedy @KennedyMary
RTÉ Broadcaster. Presenter of Nationwide. All the opinions expressed here are my own.

Tadhg Peavoy @TPeavoy
Journalist for RTÉ.ie. I write mostly about sport, with a bit of film and travel thrown in for good measure. All views my own. http://tadhgpeavoy.wordpress.com

Niall O’Connor @NiallOCo
Evening Herald Journalist. DCU graduate. Current affairs addict. LFC fan. All opinions my own. Email: Niallk.oconnor@gmail.com

Esther McCarthy @Esthermccarthy
Journalist with Sunday World. I talk movies with Sean Moncrieff, Fridays, Newstalk. Co-wrote ‘Boiling Point’ with Nick Munier. Film fanatic. Avid tennis lover.

Zara King @ZaraKing
Broadcast Journalist – Radio – @beat102103 The views expressed here are my own and not those of Beat 102-103

MaireT @MaireTNC
Journalist with RTÉ/TG4. Connemara native who spends a huge amount of time on the road burning diesel/coffee/diet coke. Snackbox eater. All views my own.

Raidió na Gaeltachta @RTERnaG
National radio station in Ireland, broadcasting in Irish. Stáisiún Náisiúnta na Gaeltachta agus na Gaeilge.

Marc Coleman @colemanatlarge
Marc Coleman is the economics editor with Newstalk 106-108FM and hosts ‘Coleman at Large’ on Newstalk, Tuesday & Wednesday nights 22:00-0:00

Gillian Nelis @gnelis
Assistant Editor of The Sunday Business Post newspaper. All views my own.

Gavin Daly @DalyGavin
Cavan man, rugby fan, (lapsed) mountaineer and Sunday Times business journalist. These tweets are mine.

Dara Healy @StoryHealy
Storyful journo

WomenOnAirIE @WomenOnAirIE
Putting the broads into Irish broadcasting! Women on Air is a voluntary networking group that gives women the skills and confidence to go on radio/TV.

colin coyle @colincoyle
Sunday Times journalist in Ireland. Arsenal fan. All views are my own.

Megan Specia @meganspecia
American living and working in Dublin. Journalist @Storyful . All views expressed are my own.

Nicola Bardon @Nicola_IrishSun
#stunnahbabes #totes Got a showbiz story? Mail me on nicola.bardon@the-sun.ie

Marian O’Flaherty @dinglenews
Write stuff for @kerryman_ie & www.dinglenews.com. These are my own views & not that of my employer. Honest. Take photos too.

sinead desmond @sineaddesmond
Co-anchor of Ireland AM, journalist, broadcaster, olympic gymnast, editor of various titles, one of the above is an untruth! Retweets = interesting bits&bobs

Keelin Shanley @KeelinShanley
Reporter / presenter with RTE’s Prime Time and The Consumer Show

Tony Connelly @tconnellyRTE
Europe Editor for RTE News, Ireland’s public service broadcaster. I report on EU and European affairs for RTE News and Current Affairs.

Lynsey Kiely @lynseykiely
RTÉ Journalist. All views expressed are my own

Eoin Murphy @eoinmurphy22
Entertainment Editor for the Irish Daily and Mail on Sunday, Xpose guest and full time student at the school of Ron Burgundy. Views are mine, unfortunately.

Patricia O’Callaghan @ocallap
News Journalist, RTÉ.ie. All opinions expressed are my own.

Sarah Kelly @Sarah1Kelly
Journalist / Desk Editor UTV. Lover of life, travel, sport and good food. All posts are my own – unless their crap, then I’ve been hacked!!

John Riordan @JohnWRiordan
New York-based sports columnist (Irish Examiner) and freelance journalist. JohnWRiordan.com | EMAIL REMOVED

Alison Healy @AlisonHealyIT
Irish Times reporter. A lurker since 2009. Still building up to my first tweet. Any day now.

Sara Burke @sburx
Journalist, broadcaster, health policy analyst, saraburke.com

Alan Cantwell @alanrantwell
Alan Cantwell is a Journalist and News Anchor with TV3 Ireland

Ciara Elliott @confettieditor
Editor of Confetti magazine, Ireland’s best-selling bridal glossy

Henry McKean @HenryMcKean

Damien Lane @Damienlanesun
News Editor of the Irish Sun newspaper based in Dublin, Ireland. All views are my own.

Lisa-Marie Berry @LMBER
Producer of Tonight with Vincent Browne. All views expressed are my own.

The Mayo News @themayonews
A local newspaper covering news, opinion, farming, sport, lifestyle, entertainment, health, food, gardening and other local issues for the people of Mayo

Limerick Leader @limerick_leader
Limerick’s newspaper since 1889

Evening Echo @CorkEveningEcho
The only daily newspaper dedicated to Cork #corkecho http://www.eveningecho.ie/

Day & Night Magazine @dayandnightmag
The Irish Independent Friday supplement serving up the best in videos, links, music and websites.

le cool Dublin @lecooldublin
A free weekly cultural agenda and alternative city guide. Publisher: @miguelmyriad Editor: @kowalshki Dep. Ed: @colemakf

Cork Independent @CorkIndie
Latest news from Cork Independent newspaper

Saturday Irish Indo @IndoDiary
The Irish Independent Saturday Diary.

iVenus @iVenusxx
Editor of iVenus.com – Ireland’s premier fashion & beauty website

Sarah Breen @SarahJayBee
Freelance journalist and cheese fiend. I will express your opinions for a small fee

lisa o’carroll @lisaocarroll
Freelance Guardian journalist, Leveson inquiry/phone hacking my specialist subject. Also follow Irish business news

House and Home @houseandhomemag
House and Home is Ireland’s best loved interiors magazine and is an invaluable source book for making your house into a home.

MetroHeraldMarketing @MetroHMarketing
Metro Herald is a free newspaper available in Dublin, known for its local and international news, celebrity gossip, sport and weird & wonderful stories!

Enda Cunningham @endacunningham
News journalist with @galwaynews (Connacht Tribune, Connacht Sentinel, Galway City Tribune), film critic, cynic. The views expressed are my own.

Flawless Magazine @flawlessmagazin
Flawless Magazine is an online bimonthly fashion magazine featuring international photographers, models, designers and artists

Rosemary Mac Cabe @RosemaryMacCabe
She’s an awful bullshitter – but she’s good at it. [Direct quote]

MrJohnFKennedy @MrJohnFKennedy
Editor of siliconrepublic.com, eThursday and Digital Ireland, to name a few. Looks fresh, but writing and editing technology since 1994.

Paul Hearns @Paul_Hearns
Writer, journalist, commentator, biker, wonderer, wanderer

Kathy Foley @KathyFoley
Journalist. Writer.

Gabrielle Monaghan @GabbyMonaghan
Freelance journalist, The Sunday Times. Got a story? Email me at gabrielle.monaghan@sunday-times.ie

Marc Peter Coleman @MarcPColeman
Presents Coleman at Large NT 106-108fm, Sunday Indep columnist. Former Econ Editor Irish Times, ECB & DFinance economist. All views expressed personal.

Yvonne Judge @yvonnejudge
RTE 2fm producer, journalist and doc maker. Loving partner and gardener otherwise. All views expressed are mine.

Dearbhail McDonald @DearbhailDibs
Legal Editor at the Irish Independent, Eisenhower Fellow 2012, author, violinist and twin. All views personal.

Padraic Geoghegan @padraic83
RTE.ie/news journalist. Carlovian. All views are my own.

Ciara McDonagh @ciaramcdonagh
Early riser for newstalk. All views expressed are my own though

Colette Browne @colettebrowne
Journalist with an unhealthy interest in current affairs.

Pad C @paddy_con
Currently being tolerated by the good folk at Off the Ball. All views are solely mine, but will mostly be recycled from elsewhere..enjoy!

Berna Cox @tomberna
Journalist, Plain English editor, sometimes lecturer, enthusiastic jam maker and mother of emigrants.(Not every emigrant. Just two).

Newstalk Breakfast @breakfastnt
Tweets from Chris Donoghue, Co-Presenter, Newstalk Breakfast on Newstalk106-108fm.

John Cradden @johncradden
Freelance journalist, feature writer, dad, husband, cyclist and classic car/old banger enthusiast. Now with computer hearing.

Jason Walsh @jwalshireland
Reporter. Ireland correspondent of the CSM. PressEurop columnist. Various US, UK & Irish newspapers. Link is not endorsement, views my own etc.

SirPaudiePrendergast @paudieaudi
Journalist/Meerkat at @newstalkfm I’m damned if I do and I’m damned if I don’t. Any views expressed are unfortunately my own.

ian mallon @ianmallon
Journalist, Deputy Editor Evening Herald, Motoring Editor Evening Herald. All views could only ever be my own – but you know I’m right.

Michael O’Doherty @MODfromVIP
Publisher of VIP Magazine Group and columnist for Evening Herald. All opinions expressed here are my own.

Miriam O’Callaghan @MiriamOCal
TV & Radio Presenter/broadcast journalist with RTE, Ireland’s public service broadcaster. The views I express here are my own personal opinions.

Eoin Butler @eoinbutler
Contributor for The Irish Times. Long shot candidate for Giovanni Trapattoni’s Euro 2012 squad.

Rebecca Meehan @rebeccameehan
Newstalk Breakfast researcher, famous in small circles. All views my own and not those of my employer.

Conor Brophy @cpbrophy
RTE business reporter. It wasn’t me that talked the country into recession. Honest. All views mine. Not RTE’s.

Hugh Linehan @hlinehan
I’m editor of irishtimes.com. All views my own.. I think

Adelina Campos @Adelina_CdC
Journalist with the Evening Herald. Any views expressed here are my own. mail acampos@herald.ie

Blathnaid Healy @blathnaidhealy
WorldIrish Content Manager. Formerly RTÉ. Medill grad. Violinist, Clockwork Noise (www.clockworknoise.com).

Evening Herald @HeraldNewsdesk
The Evening Herald’s official Twitter page. All Things Considered.

Deirdre OShaughnessy @deshocks
Reader, writer, talker, cook. Editor of @corkindo.

The Business @TheBusinessRTE
Saturday at 10.00am on RTE Radio One

Mark Evans @HERALDTRAVEL
Mark Evans is Travel Editor of the Evening Herald, Independent News and Media. Travel Journalist of Year 09, radio slots/lecturer. facebook: Mark Cantona Evans

Claire Byrne @cebyrne
Claire Byrne – RTE broadcaster. All views are my own.

Chris Donoghue @chrisrdonoghue
Radio presenter, trainee pilot, political animal & gym avoider

RTÉ Prime Time @RTE_PrimeTime
Prime Time is the flagship Current Affairs programme of Ireland’s National Broadcaster, RTÉ. It is presented by @MiriamOCal and Richard Crowley. #rtept

Amy Wall @theamywall
Journalist at Joe.ie. All opinions & non-sensical ramblings expressed are my own E-mail: EMAIL REMOVED.

Adam Maguire @AdamMaguire
Irish freelance journalist covering tech, media, politics and current affairs. Working for The Irish Times, Business & Finance, RTÉ.ie and others.

Richie Oakley @roakleyIRL
Editor of Sunday in the Sunday Times Ireland from January 22nd. Also the ST Ireland’s motoring correspondent, gadget freak and activity sport writer.

Brian Hayes Curtin @BHayesCurtin
Journalist for Cork Independent. Perennial breather and obstinate sleeper.

Cormac McQuinn @CormacMcQuinn
Journalist – Irish Independent – views my own if any are expressed…

Kevin Doyle @KevDoyle_Herald
Journalist with Evening Herald & former Youth Director of Community Games. Obviously all views are my own.

John Collins @jaycee001
Assistant Biz Ed with The Irish Times. Paper’s tech guy. Opinions personal etc. For more running, cycling, climbing stuff thewrongclothes.tumblr.com

Constantin Gurdgiev @GTCost

Maria Gonzalez @NewsOfIrish
News from Ireland & around the World from The Irish Independent, including Breaking, National and World News & Features.

EveningHeraldBN @EveningHeraldBN
Evening Herald Business Owner’s Networking Group. FREE Networking & Mentoring Events for Business Owners in Leinster. Tel. TELEPHONE REMOVED

Paul O’Flynn @OFlynnPaul
RTE News video journalist. All views my own.

Orla Barry @orla_barry
Broadcaster of The Green Room(Mondays 10pm-12am) & Documentary Maker with Newstalk106-108FM, Journalist with Irish Examiner- all views my own

Genevieve Carbery @GenevieveCarber
Journalist writing for The Irish Times. Views are my own, RTs/follows are not endorsements.

Eithne O’Brien @Eithne_OBrien
Reporter with RTE’s Prime Time

Laurence Mackin @LaurenceMackin
Arts Blogger with The Irish Times, bass player with @3epkano and general ne’er do well

Independent.ie @Independent_ie
This is the official Twitter for Independent.ie / Irish Independent. Independent.ie provides up to the minute news content and services to a global audience.

Paolo Tullio @paolotullio
Paolo is the restaurant reviewer for the Irish Independent, he is a resident critic on RTE’s The Restaurant and he has a weekly food slot with @seanmoncrieff.

Michael Freeman @michfreeman
Staff writer at @thejournal_ie. Former feature writer and Sun sub-editor. Honourable mention: under-9s poetry competition.

Paddy Logue @paddylogue
Assistant News #Editor in @The_Irish_Times. Previously Online News Ed. Father, husband, and lover of #news. Louth/Meath man.Often differ with #TheIrishTimes

Rita O’Reilly @RitaOReilly
Journalist. Reporter with ‘Prime Time’, current affairs TV programme, RTÉ, Ireland. News, views, asides. Views expressed do not represent the view of RTÉ.

Laura Butler @lauralubutler
Reporter with the Evening Herald-all views are my own. E-mail me at EMAIL REMOVED

Dick Ahlstrom @DickAhlstrom
Science editor @The_Irish_Times editor of the Thursday #sceincetoday page am a @sciencegallery #Leonardo Twitter views my own

June Shannon @juneshannon
Medical Journalist with www.medicalindependent.ie interests include equity, mental health & social issues. Married to the lovely T. My tweets are my own views.

Lydia Murphy @lydiamurph
Producer, Tonight with Vincent Browne TV3. All views expressed are my own.

Deirdra O’Regan @deoregan
TV3 News Desk resident and Radio Nova News early bird. All views my own etc.

SiliconRepublic.com @siliconrepublic
Ireland’s technology News Service Voted Ireland’s leading technology site four years in a row https://plus.google.com/b/106724253172601946206/

Lisa Deeney @DeeneyLisa
A woman with a passion for family & growing veg. Homemaker & journalist with the Leinster Leader. Opinions here are all mine baby!

Kieran Cuddihy @kierancuddihy
Researcher with the Breakfast show on Newstalk. Unfortunately these views are my own and are the best I can come up with.

Joe Coffey @seocoffey
Freelance Journalist while fighting the good fight for Mayo in my spare time…

Fearghal O’Connor @BandF
This twitter account belongs to Fearghal O’Connor, the Online Editor of Business and Finance. Contact me at @fearghaloc

David Quinn @DavQuinn
Columnist with Irish Independent and Irish Catholic. Director of Iona Institute.

Samantha Libreri @SamanthaLibreri
Journalist with RTÉ News and Shamrock Rovers fan. All views are my own and not those of RTÉ (especially the Rovers related ones!)

Cian Ginty @cianginty
Freelance journalist

Herald.ie @Herald_ie
Official Herald.ie / Evening Herald twitter account which features the best up to the minute Dublin news

Karlin Lillington @klillington
Irish Times tech journo & columnist w/occasional forays elsewhere. Opera & classical (&etc) music fan. Semi-geek. Book devotee. Lots of dogs & cats

Christine Bohan @ChristineBohan
Journalist, webhead, feminist, news addict, Dubliner. Deputy editor of @thejournal_ie (but tweets are my own). Former Guardianista.

Joan O’Sullivan @osullijo
RTE reporter- from Kerry, based in Limerick but liable to turn up anywhere, doing anything-mainly Nationwide/news. My views are mine.

Neil Duffy @loafiebread
Contact researcher by day, Freelance Cameraman & Editor by night. WMD = Sony Z5 + FCP

Laura Coates @laurakildare
News Editor at the Leinster Leader. Rugby player with Newbridge RFC Ladies. All views my own.

Susan Ryan @SusanSRyan
Staff writer at TheJournal.ie – Ireland’s online community for news.

Charlie Taylor @ChasTaylor
Irish Times journalist, psychotherapist, recovering Englishman (all views my own etc, etc)

Derek Mooney @dsmooney
Ministerial Adviser: 2004 – 2010, Public Affairs & Communications Consultant (MPRII). Evening Herald columnist and an opinionated git: 1962 – date

Brian Hutton @magicbathtub
Journalist. Deputy News Editor, Press Association, Ireland. Views my own, etc.

The Business Post @BizPost
The Daily Business Post is an online news service from The Sunday Business Post. We cover business, tech, personal finance and more. EMAIL REMOVED.

Jason O’Brien @jasonpobrien
Journalist, Irish Independent. All views are my own, and obstructed. UCD post grad student.

cian mccormack @cian_mccormack
reporter based in dublin

Will Goodbody @willgoodbody
RTE News broadcaster and journalist. But any views are my own.

Ray Donoghue @rayodonnchadha
RTÉ News journalist.

Mark Tighe @mark_tighe
Journalist with The Sunday Times in Ireland. Donegal man and Everton supporter. Views own.

Sheila O’Kelly @sheilaokelly
Freelance journalist, Novellist, and plain English expert. Foodie. Techie.

john mcmanus @ITjohnmcmanus
Irish Times business editor

Tom Hickey @1TomHickey
Irish Examiner journalist with passion for politics, the media, Man United, cricket and chess among others. All opinions my own, of course.

TV3 @TV3Ireland
Latest news & more from Ireland from TV3 3e and tv3.ie. Irish News from TV3News and Vincent Browne; Showbiz from Xpose, Champions League plus Election coverage

Sinéad Crowley @SineadCrowley
Reader, watcher, listener. Arts and Media correspondent with RTE News. The views expressed here are my own though.

Cork Independent @corkindo
Cork’s biggest weekly free newspaper! Check out corkindependent.com daily & follow @deshocks, @bhayescurtin, @louisecashell, @RoryOLeary2

Conor Barrins @ConorBarrins
Freelance journalist. Vehemently insists that his hair is strawberry blonde.

Simon Carswell @SiCarswell
Finance Correspondent, The Irish Times. Author – Something Rotten and Anglo Republic. Opinions are my own.

Martina Fitzgerald @MartinaFitzg
Journalist with Irish National Broadcaster, RTE. These are my own views. A follow is not an endorsement.

catherine mack @catherinemack
Writes about responsible,ethical,green or ecotourism-call it what you will. Author Ecoescape:Ireland & Ireland Green Travel app @greenirelandapp,

Dominic Coyle @ITdominiccoyle
Irish Times deputy business editor

Ciaran Byrne @CiaranByrne
Newspapers! editor Rolling Back The Years: The Crime Files (1922 – 2012) starting Saturday Feb 25 in the Irish Independent with stunning pix and writing

Siobhán Brett @siobhanbrett
Dublin-based journalist, diaspora kid, stubborn twang.

Kilian Doyle @kiliandoyle
Irish Times Deputy Online News Editor. Notorious grump. Faithful Gooner. (These two may be related.) Opinions my own and liable to change without notice.

Laura Slattery @LauraSlattery
Cough. Journalist. Cough.

ConorMcKeon @ConorMcKn
Working in Dublin with The Evening Herald covering gaelic games.

Jennifer Duggan @jenniduggan
Freelance journalist. (All views and opinions my own and not those of my employer).

Gavan Reilly @gavreilly
Journalist with @thejournal_ie (but opinions my own). Politics nerd, Man Utd fan, @agenda_ie overlord, Rubik’s geek. Talking head for hire. gavan@thejournal.ie

Eoin English @EoinBearla
Journalist with the Irish Examiner and making-it-up-as-he-goes-along dad of two. (Tweets are my own)

Jennifer O’Connell @jenoconnell
Columnist with The Sunday Business Post and contrib to others including Ray D’Arcy Show on Today FM, RTE’s Daily Show, Evening Herald & Irish Indo. What views?

Brian O’Connell @oconnellbrian
Journalist(mainly Irish Times) broadcaster(@thedailyshowrte #todaypk) author(http://alturl.com/zznaf) Currently making 5-part @RTERadio1 series. Views my own

David Murphy @davidmurphyRTE
Business Editor RTE, tweets are my own. Retweets are not endorsements.

Markham @markhamnolan
Literary Mercenary & Director of Outreach @Storyful (@storyfulmarkham for work tweets)

Lisa Jewell @LisaJewelldub
Journo. Not an English novelist. That is all.

Richard Duffy @Richard_Duffy
Freelance Journalist and TV guy. Working on the current series of Eco Eye. All opinions inexplicably my own.

Irish Times Magazine @IrishTimesMag
The Irish Times Magazine. Go ahead and have a look, you never know what you might find …

TheTwicket @thetwicket
The @thetwicket surely must be a parody account? No professional newspaper would allow such stroppy tweets, surely – A. Fan, 2011

Fiach Kelly @fiachkelly
Pol Corr for the Indo. Views are my own, nothing to do with my employer. Claim to fame: once marked Bernard Brogan. It didn’t go well.

Brendan Cole @brendcole
Multimedia Journalist at @RTESport. Lots of rugby. All views my own.

Morning Ireland @morning_ireland
RTÉ’s flagship news and current affairs radio programme on RTÉ Radio One (88.2 to 90fm): Ireland’s most listened-to radio show

Hugh O’Connell @oconnellhugh
Journalist with @TheJournal_ie. Former Liverpudlian who once ran a marathon. Contemplating another. Views my own. Got a story? EMAIL REMOVED

Aoife Stokes @aoifstokes
Assistant Producer RTE documentary unit. All views are my own.

TheJournal.ie @thejournal_ie
An Irish website allowing you to read, share and shape the news. Currently in public beta.

Roisin Ingle @roisiningle

Niamh Griffin @griffinniamh
Journalist, nomad … Thoughts all my very own work.

Fiona @fionahearst
Journalist and social media enthusiast. Views expressed my own, do not represent views of my employers.

Caitlin McBride @mcbride_caitlin
Deputy Editor of VIP Magazine. New York girl with a bit of Limerick & Dublin thrown in for good measure!

Daniel McDonnell @McDonnellDan
Irish Independent Football Correspondent. Ardee native & Dublin dweller. All views are my own, not those of INM.

carlobrien @carlobrien
Displaced Corkman, living in Dublin… Irish Times journalist & semi-obsessive Microdisney fan… Story ideas find welcome home at: cobrien@irishtimes.com

emma o kelly @emma_okelly
Education and Science Correspondent, RTE. NUJ activist. All views my own not RTE’s.

Rozanne Stevens @RozanneStevens
Author of Delish Cookbook, Pat Kenny’s Radio Chef, Food Journo for The Irish Independent, Director of Ish Cookery School www.rozannestevens.com

Michael Clifford @Mickcliff
Journalist working for Irish Examiner and columnist with Sunday Times. All views are not my own, having been robbed from other people

Conor Kane @Conorkane1974
Journalist in the south-east of Ireland

Ronan McGreevy @RMcGreevy1301
Irish Times journalist, metalhead. All views are my own. You know the rest.

TheJohnMurrayShow @johnmurrayshow
Join John Murray each weekday morning from 9am on RTÉ Radio 1 for entertaining, lively conversation and invigorating debate

Pat O’Mahony @patomahony1
TV/radio producer/director/presenter. Just PD’d #ntwycn11 for RTE1, http://bit.ly/sfI5yB. Now sorting the next gig. Freelancing, huh?

Niamh Horan @NiamhHoran
News Reporter for The Sunday Independent newspaper. All thoughts are my own. Contact: EMAIL REMOVED

Christine Allen @ChrisInCork
Recovering journalist. Escapes through photography & concludes with short poems.Tweets are my own.

Shane Hegarty @shanehegarty
Irish Times Arts Editor and columnist. Science Gallery’s Leonardo Group. Author. Note: I don’t do RTs on request. (Please RT that.)

Marie Boran @pixievondust
Science/tech journalist. PhD student at DERI. Opinions expressed are a mixture of cut and pasted Wikipedia articles and divine oracle.

mark little @marklittlenews
Founder of @Storyful

George Hook @ghook

Alex Meehan @alex_meehan
Journalist writing about technology, general features and food. Enthusiastic prevaricator with a taste for distorted power chords.

RTÉ News @rtenews
RTÉ News and Current Affairs – Irish and International News

Bloggertone @bloggertone
Bloggertone is a business blogging community. CEO: @anitacampbell & Community Manager: @nialldevitt

Laura Noonan @LauraNoonanIRL
Banking Correspondent at the Irish Independent. Semi regular tv and radio contributor, so clearly somewhat lacking in self preservation skills

Tom dunne @tomhappens

Joe Leogue @JoeLeogue
Journalist with @CorkmanNews, and others. Sports fan, politics junkie, public affairs nerd. All views my own.

Colette Fitzpatrick @colettefitz
TV3 broadcaster and Evening Herald journalist. All views expressed here are my own personal opinions.

Joe Griffin @theJoeGriffin
Irish journalist, gamer, film buff, pop culture addict. Regular contributor to The Irish Times and RTE. Work also appeared in The Guardian, Total Film and more.

Una Mullally @UnaMullally
Journalist /// Broadcaster

Lisa Pereira @lisa_pereira
Morning Ireland studio and web producer. Any views expressed are mine, not RTÉ’s (unless by pure coincidence)

Jude L @Judearoo
Editor, medical journalist, messer, uncrowned queen of procrastination (get to it any day now…)

Jim Carroll @jimcarrollOTR
I write for The Irish Times, present The Far Side on Phantom FM & host the Banter discussion panels (http://thisisbanter.com)

anthony murnane @anthonymurnane
Anthony Murnane is Deputy Foreign Editor and a news anchor with Ireland’s national radio and TV station, RTE. Views expressed are my own etc.

Tadhg Enright @TadhgEnrightSky
Sky News Business Correspondent; Irishman in London; All-round good egg; Views here are my own and no-one else’s!

Sean Flynn @SeanFlynnEd
Sean Flynn Education Editor of The Irish Times. Sport music obsessed hack. Sceptic on Ireland’s world class education.” All views personal.

John Meagher @johnmeaghermuso
Irish Independent music reviewer and features journalist. Dedicated follower of The Premier County (aka Tipperary)

IrishTimesBiz @IrishTimesBiz
The latest news from business desk of The Irish Times in Dublin, with occasional commentary and interaction. Now with lists for real time news

The Herald Dubliner @Dubliner_mag

Anna Carey @urchinette
Journalist. Ranter. Knitter. She’s still in the disco business-just. Debut novel The Real Rebecca won Senior Children’s Book of 2011 award at Irish Book Awards

Frank Fitzgibbon @FrankSunTimes
Editor, The Sunday Times (Ireland). Put on your red shoes and dance the blues…in Kenny we trust (Dalglish, not Enda). All views are my own…

Philip Boucher-Hayes @boucherhayes
Journalist RTE Radio & TV. All views my own (except where obviously plagiarised).

David Cochrane @davidcochrane
Founder of Politics.ie (@politicsie) and online journalist, interested in politics (obviously), current affairs, media and good coffee.

Aiden Corkery @Aiden_Corkery
Deputy News Editor at the Irish Daily Mail. With a particular interest in politics, business and all things beard-strokey

Fran McNulty @franmcnulty
Journalist with Ireland’s National Broadcaster RTÉ. Views expressed are my own.

Raf Diallo @Raftastico
Irish journalist and Leitrim’s most exotic export since boxty. Freelance and occasional Hot Press contributor All views are sponsored by yours truly

Catherine O’Mahony @cathomahony
Daily news editor, www.Businesspost.ie, opinions mine, not employer’s

Brian Foley @brian_foley
Working in Dublin as a multimedia journalist. Still use notepad and pen too!

PatrickFreyne @PatrickFreyne1
Television and radio reviewer for the Evening Herald. Also writes for Business & Finance, The Sunday Business Post, Hot Press & The Irish Times. Sings a lot.

Claire Murphy @CMurphyHerald
Journalist with the Evening Herald. Any views expressed here are my own.

Neil Halligan @NeilHalligan
An Irish journalist with interests in sports, arts and politics.

Carmel Doyle @Carmeldoyle
Clean-tech, innovation, start-up reporter, Siliconrepublic.com (SR). Views here my own unless SR tweets/RTs. Love poetry, music, fashion, living, art, Firenze

Mark_Coughlan @Mark_Coughlan
Looker-uper/writer-downer for Prime Time. Always interested. Got a story? PHONE & EMAIL REMOVED Views not… etc etc.

Ciara O’Brien @ciaraobrien
Full-time journalist and tech geek, part-time twitter addict. Gadget fan. Games geek. Wannabe ninja. All views are my own etc

Emily Sheerin @emilysheerin
Presenter/Producer of Good Morning Dublin and I Want That Job on Dublin City fm, Researcher at Newstalk, Writer at www.fashion.ie, all views are my own x

Richard J Conway @RichardJConway
Writer for Wallpaper* guides. Have written for Irish Independent/Irish Times/Guardian. Recent New Yorker and #cuj12

Jack Quann @jqbilbao
Journalist at Newstalk 106-108fm *All views are my own* | Follow @newstalknews & @newstalkfm | Retweets/external links not endorsements

Conor Pope @conor_pope
I dropped out of the Cubs because it clashed with The Incredible Hulk on the telly. I work for The Irish Times. These views are all my own.

Sinead Gleeson @sineadgleeson
Dublin journalist and broadcaster who writes/talks music, books, film, Arts for The Irish Times (all my own views) and RTE. Reporter for @RTETheWorks.

Sandra Hurley @sandra_hurley
RTE journalist. My views are my own.

Jonathan Healy @jonathanhealy
Newstalk Lunchtime presenter and Southern Correspondent (thoughts my own though!)

katy mcguinness @katymcguinness
Dublin journalist writing on food, restaurants and just about anything else. Contributing editor and restaurant critic at The Gloss.

john burns @JohnBurnsST
Associate Editor, The Sunday Times. All views (and disparaging remarks about other newspapers) my own (right after I steal them from other Tweeters)

Ronan Price @RonanPrice
Cynical technology hack working for the Irish Independent newspaper in Dublin. They’re my opinions – you can’t have them

Shane Kennedy @shanosm
Freelance Journalist.

Aoife Hegarty @aoifehegs
RTE journalist. Loves all things Donegal & GAA. Personal tweets.

Kim Bielenberg @KimBielenberg
Irish Independent Feature Writer. Weekending column, Weekend Review

Sharon Tobin @sharontobin
TV Reporter and Journalist. Working for RTÉ, Ireland’s public service broadcaster. Views/Musings/Opinions my own, not my employer’s.

Dick O’Brien @dickobrien
Sunday Business Post technology correspondent, semi-retired blogger and cycling fanatic

harrymcgee @harrymcgee
Political Correspondent, The Irish Times. #irishpolitics

Páraic Gallagher @paraicgallagher
Political Correspondent for Newstalk Network News & Newstalk 106-108fm – PPI Station of the Year 2011 and News Bulletin winner 2011. All my own views

RTÉ Local Heroes @rtelocalheroes
Official Twitter account for RTÉ Local Heroes – the campaign for jobs. Get involved by visiting the website below. Join the conversation: #rtelocalheroes

Shane Creevy @shanecreevy
Journalist @storyful; books editor @politico_ie; ex-guitar teacher and wannabe literature buff. NOT related to Charlie McCreevy!

Rosita Boland @RositaBoland
Irish Times features journalist. Out of order poet. Curious. Carpe diem. Opinions expressed are my own.

Aidan Coughlan @aidancoughlan
Production journo, feature writer, music blogger with RE&D/Irish Independent; Beatles nut; future Law student; rugby player; composer of my very own views.

RTÉ Business @RTEbusiness
RTÉ Business: Irish Business and Technology News

Ben Haugh @BenHaugh
Journalist based in Dublin. Loves adventures, film and cheese. But never the three together.

Adrian Weckler @adrianweckler
Digital editor of The Sunday Business Post; founding editor of The Daily Business Post. Opinions expressed are my own.

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