Every week on Moncrieff, Darragh Doyle makes his way into the studio to sift through the digital flotsam and jetsam floating through the electronic ether, helping Sean to find the treasures on the Internet this week. Here's what he covered:
- An opening video
With now more than 400,000 views on YouTube, the Coláiste Lurgan crew, with príomhamhránaithe Cian Mac Gearailt agus Stephanie Hurley have been making waves with their Irish version of Cheerleader by OMI - Síoraí Spraoi.
With more than 16,667,000 views on YouTube, including recent covers of Wiz Khalifa’s See You Again, Mumford & Sons I Will Wait and Kodaline’s All I Want, you’d have to ask, do these kids do anything in the college other than making videos?
A newborn baby could go through nine nappies a day at a cost of approx 21c each. BabyDoc, the new, free App that brings supermarket special offers on baby products directly into shoppers smartphones.
The BabyDoc can help you save time and money by showing them what savings they can make on baby product purchases, according to their location and product preferences.
The BabyDoc provides information on special offers - updated 24 hours a day, 7 days a week - to ensure special offers included in the App are always up-to-date.
The BabyDoc shows special offers across all baby supply categories; from nappies and wipes to food, milk and drinks, to toiletries and accessories, all of which can be accessed in as few as two taps of the smartphone screen. There’s even pushchairs, car seats, toys, nursery products and safety equipment.
It shows you what special offers are in stores near you and how much money you’ll get off each.
Bargain Alerts is probably the handiest of the features - when you key in your favourite products, you’ll get an alert when it’s on special offer in any of the retailers close to you. The BabyDoc is the only App available dedicated to baby product special offers containing every offer available in major retailers such as Dunnes Stores, Tesco, SuperValu, Boots, Lloyds Pharmacy and Mothercare.
Download the BabyDoc App for free; search for BabyDoc on Android at Google Play and in the App Store for iPhone.
It’s all over - the Dublin Start Up Weekend where over 54 hours, 90 entrepreneurs came together to see if they could create viable start up products. Many of those involved work at places like Google, Facebook and Paddy Power but wanted to try something different.
Start-up Weekend began on Friday afternoon when scores of would-be entrepreneurs arrived at Google’s offices in Dublin. By Saturday they had organised themselves into 11 teams of 90 people and got to work building minimal viable products, doing market research and building software.
Book-e, a start-up focused on the burgeoning e-sports betting market, was the overall winner at Start-up Weekend in Dublin. E-sports currently attracts an audience of 134m viewers and this is set to grow. Book-e will allow fans to bet against one another as well as interfacing with bookie chains to allow punters to place bets.
The second prize winner was PhotoCAD, creator of an amazing app for architects that lets users take pictures of buildings or objects and convert them into accurate, proportionate CAD files. Third prize went to Comrade, a social app aimed at people who travel to new cities that allows them to connect with fellow travellers based on common interests as well as identify things to do while in the city.
Special mention went to team FitMyBits for their solution to helping women get the right fit for bras, with a personalised bra-fitting in the comfort of their own homes.
Sunday night 200 people came along to cheer the teams on as they pitched to the high profile judges. This year’s pitches were distinctive due to the fact that there was a marked increase in female leader participation – five out of the 11 pitches were led by female CEOs. Find out more here.
Do you need help? Have you got help to offer? People are offering and asking for help all over twitter using the hashtag #legup following UK Channel 4 program The Last Leg asked people to counteract the budget cuts for the poor by helping them on your own (guerilla-style). If you’ve got a #legup to offer or need a #legup, tweet about it!
Some of the tweets include:
Old/sick/lonely/vulnerable ppl around Dublin needing 2b brought to appointments/shopping etc get in touch #legup
— media_owl (@SarahMcGrane1) July 11, 2015
Anyone need help in the south tipp area? #legup
— •Sarah• (@sarahlou163) July 10, 2015
@TheLastLeg #legup anyone looking an amateur photographer? Could do with the experience photographing. Belfast area
— Bigger Pic Belfast (@BigPicBelfast) July 10, 2015
Heyy all im livin in Dublin looking for creche job in a job whre boss is bulling me and need help to be in a happier job #legup
— JennyLou (@JENNYbocakes86) July 11, 2015
#legup do any other teenagers with ibs need to talk about how horrid it is with someone who understands because i definitely do
— Weirdo (@AliceHuntMusic) July 12, 2015
#LegUp English student here: will help anyone with CVs, cover letters, proof reading...! Also, currently looking for an internship myself :)
— Dominic Aveiro (@DominicAveiro) July 10, 2015
Got terrible arachanaphobia. Can anyone with a pet tarantula give me a #legup to conquer it? Must be patient! #8legsup
— HelenC (@lolittalollypop) July 10, 2015
@darraghdoyle @NewstalkFM http://Here: http://t.co/qYiqNzHGIY ðŸ’
— Tracey (@traceymckeon) July 13, 2015
The QuietPlaceProject has been recommended the loveliest thing on the internet, where you can go and relax for 60 seconds. It takes over your screen, advises you to put your phone away and guides you through a little bit of mindfulness. No meditation, no yoga - just pressing the space bar and ignoring everything for a minute or so to some relaxing music.
Perfect if you need just a little bit of a break.
- When you give a tree an email address
@darraghdoyle @newstalkfm Where the trees were given email addresses to report damage / danger, receive fan mail http://t.co/WbNVvNX3IS
— Viriconia (@Viriconia) July 13, 2015
The city of Melbourne assigned trees email addresses so citizens could report problems. Instead, people wrote thousands of love letters to their favorite trees.
Officials assigned the trees ID numbers and email addresses in 2013 as part of a program designed to make it easier for citizens to report problems like dangerous branches. The unintended but positive consequence, was that people did more than just report issues. They also wrote directly to the trees, which have received thousands of messages—everything from banal greetings and questions about current events to love letters and existential dilemmas.
Read more here.
This is an Irish resource site for mental health, particularly those affected by depression, suicide or bullying. It’s a free to use twitter-based initiative aiming to remove the shame and stigma around depression, suicide and mental illness.
Started by a group of twitter users with no budget but great goals and energy, they've built a team that provides links, resources and downloads relating to mental health charities in Ireland.
One of the things they want to do is to get people talking about mental health, so, as they say, knowledge grows and stigma diminishes. They’ve compiled education resources for students and teachers, for businesses, employers and employees and for advocates.
You’ll find more information on www.depressionhurtsireland.com.
- And finally...
With more than 7.6m views, this shows what happens when you don’t drop the beat. There’s something very satisfying about that disappointed groan in the crowd...
To see what beats Darragh covered last week, click here.
