Every Tuesday, Darragh Doyle, the duke of all things digital, is live in studio to fill you in on everything that's useful and charmingly usless online right now. Here's what he had to tell Sean Moncrieff today...
- An opening video
Watch as Irish people try to explain some of our most beloved idioms and phrases, including “Arseways”, “Fierce weather”, “Quare”, “Donkeys Years”, “Deadly” and so on.
Suicide or Survive (SOS) is an Irish charity that endeavours to challenge the stigma attached to mental illness and provides a range of educational and therapeutic programmes that increases understanding of suicide and plays an active role in its prevention in Ireland.
They’ve released the SOS Mobile app designed to support and assist the individual to improve their mental wellness. Using meditation and mindfulness techniques as well as the charity’s own experience of running Wellness Workshops and promoting Mental health wellness, the free SOS mobile app allows you to work towards better mental well being.
The SOS App features:
- How to take a Mindful Minute
- Mindfulness diary and timer
- Track your Mental wellbeing over time with the Health Continua
- Feed your Wolf of Hope daily
- Watch short Video presentations
- Book into a free Wellness Workshop near you
The app is in the early stages of development and if you try it and have ideas for improvement, give Suicide or Survive a shout.
Around the globe people have different obsessions about cost - as you might imagine it largely depends on where you are in the world.
An analysis of Google autocomplete by Fixr.com gives the most googled phrases for this search per county - How much does ________ cost in ___________? - , has revealed that the following is what people search for most:
- A patent - USA
- A passport - Canada
- Land - Greenland
- A tummy tuck - Mexico
- Beer - Argentina
- A prostitute - Brazil
- A Rolex - Switzerland
- To fly a MiG (Russian fighter aircraft) - Russia
- A BMW - Germany
- A nose job - Albania
- A wedding - greece
- A PS3 - Lebanon
- A watermelon - Japan
- A slave - Mauritania
- To live - UK
- A funeral - Ireland
If you’re in Ireland, the top searches are for IVF, liposuction, college or botox.
How happy are you to be in Ireland? Here’s a website that tells you what it would be like to live in nearly any other country in the world. Compare it, for instance, to Canada:
Or compare it to New Zealand:
Or to Mexico?
- And finally...
Thanks to Her.ie for this one here’s Limerick man Pa O'Donnell singing about about the stresses of the Leaving Cert, Repeating.
To see what Darragh covered with Seán last week, please click here.
