Should Ireland wave goodbye to the UK travel agreement and join Schengen?

Removing internal EU borders, does it work for an island like Ireland? The European Union is a single market and pretty much borderless. The Schengen Agreement opened the continent to allow free movement of people and goods across countries without customs or check points (Migration and Home Affairs – European Commission, 2019). For EU […]

The Border Between Science and Religion

From the view of two Catholic school alumni studying Computer Science By Aoife Kettle featuring Sinead McAleer (in navy italics!) I went to Catholic school, the school mass, pray before every class and receive a bible on graduation kind of catholic school. My very first science class of first year, we were all told to […]

Organisational Borders and Information Systems

Organisations love borders. Departmental borders, leadership borders, those little short wall borders between desks, physical walls to keep the lower levels out of the snazzy offices… the list is endless. But the real struggle, is how to translate these borders into information systems. What the use of that fancy office door if Linda from accounts […]

Information Systems and Language – Is the Irish language is at risk of technological extinctions ?

According to the EU, the Irish language, and many other lesser spoken are in grave danger. The language supports for these tongues are basically non existent (Judge, Rehm, Uszkoreit, 2012). Even here on our own island we cannot manage to adapt our information systems, as evident by this man who is suing several Irish state […]