# Data

All time

What if we could call the election result before it even happens?

David Higgins has spent the past year building a statistical model which he hopes will accurately predict the outcome of the general election next week.

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Feb 21st 2016, 8:00 PM

# pay me my money down

Here’s how much it will cost if the state becomes a living wage employer

The suggested wage at €11.50 per hour, based on the Civil Service 37 hour standard net working week, equates to an annual salary of €22,203.

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Jan 31st 2016, 6:05 AM

# gone

Ireland's missing people: The numbers behind the heartbreak

We’ve been examining the stats behind the thousands of missing persons reports made in Ireland.

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Nov 29th 2015, 9:30 PM

# sponsored by iD

There are 6 different types of phone users... Which one are you?

Let’s find out.

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Nov 20th 2015, 5:17 PM

# TechGuide

What exactly is the 'other' section in your phone's storage space for?

It has a purpose, honest.

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Nov 4th 2015, 12:00 PM

# Action Plan for Jobs

Breakdown: These are the sectors that employed 126,000 people in the past 3 years

Fourteen sectors are included in the data, which shows an increase in the number of people employed in each industry.

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Oct 26th 2015, 7:45 AM

# TechKnowHow

This is how you take control of your privacy on Windows 10

It’s been out for more than a month now but if you are concerned about what data is being shared, here’s how to change that.

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Sep 7th 2015, 7:31 PM

# cé mhéad fáilte

Asylum and refugees: How Ireland compares to the rest of the world

A new analysis of official figures, by TheJournal.ie.

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Sep 5th 2015, 7:48 PM

# terms and conditions apply

Spotify was heavily criticised for its new privacy policy, but was it deserved?

The company apologised for the changes, but is it as bad as people are making it out to be?

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Aug 21st 2015, 7:05 PM

# ashley madison

Hackers have released 32 million people's details stolen from an affair website

They had stolen the data a month ago.

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Aug 19th 2015, 7:28 AM

Voices

The next general election? You should trust the bookies a lot more than the opinion polls...

The polls got things badly wrong prior to the UK general election, and this is a trend that’s set to continue argues John Byrne.

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Aug 14th 2015, 8:00 AM

# TechGuide

Should you bother ejecting a USB drive properly?

You’re regularly nagged about it when you don’t but is it any harm to just take it out manually?

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Jul 22nd 2015, 12:16 PM

# Eyes in the sky

Here's why every flight you take is obsessively monitored

An engine alone, for example, is likely to have as many as 5,000 elements monitored every second.

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Jul 21st 2015, 6:05 AM

# cut off

Social welfare screw-up left lone parent without child benefit

The parent’s benefit payments were stopped after a screw-up involving someone else’s PPS number.

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Jul 12th 2015, 7:30 AM

Voices

You might care about your online privacy... but would you pay for it?

Would you pay for any the services you can currently use for free if it meant you had more privacy?

Jul 3rd 2015, 6:00 PM

Voices

It's change of mind time for the CAO – but do students really know what they're getting into?

What makes one student successful when another fails? In answering this question, we’re not using one valuable resource: data.

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Jul 1st 2015, 11:00 PM

# Data Breach

Parents registering their kids for GP care were shown other people's details

The website for the new system has been beset with problems since it went live yesterday.

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Jun 16th 2015, 4:13 PM

# First Data

Facebook is going to build a €200 million data centre in Meath

It will create hundreds of jobs.

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Jun 15th 2015, 7:39 AM

# Seizure

Police are poking around Fifa's headquarters again

‘IT data’ has been seized.

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Jun 10th 2015, 7:34 PM

# No Holding Back

Apple's CEO delivered a scathing attack on Facebook and Google

Tim Cook criticised companies that trade off data for free services, saying privacy is being “attacked on multiple fronts.”

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Jun 3rd 2015, 9:20 AM

# Data Breach

Photocopies of college students' passports left in a skip on busy street

The college says all of the sensitive information has been recovered.

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Apr 23rd 2015, 10:37 PM

# the big day through the ages

To thee I do wed: A century of marriage in Ireland

How was it when your parents and grandparents got hitched? And how does today’s Ireland compare?

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Apr 13th 2015, 7:00 AM

Voices

Ireland must join CERN – for our economy and our future

With CERN membership, Ireland’s brightest minds would be able to work on some of the most advanced projects in the world.

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Apr 10th 2015, 6:00 PM

# Data

You'll need to hand over your PPS number if you want the water grant

But the Department will be securely storing the details.

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Apr 10th 2015, 11:30 AM

# requests

Now the government is requesting user data from Snapchat

Snapchat revealed the data as part of its first transparency report.

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Apr 3rd 2015, 8:49 AM

# TechGuide

This is how you keep your data usage under control

Especially if you have a limited plan and don’t want to pay extra.

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Apr 1st 2015, 12:04 PM

# freak out

Every version of Windows is at risk from this 1990s bug

A patch is on the way.

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Mar 6th 2015, 4:52 PM

This house produces more energy than it uses

The one-bedroom home comes with its own semi-indoor garden.

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Mar 5th 2015, 6:29 PM

Voices

Who owns our digital fingerprints?

Think about your day 15 years ago; you could have gone about your business leaving almost no trace of yourself. Not anymore, data is changing our world.

Feb 19th 2015, 9:45 AM