The Lock-In Podcast: Recent Episodes

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We’re not locked down – we’re locked in! A podcast for how we live now.

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Emmet Ryan is our guest on today's edition of The Lock-In Podcast. He is the technology editor at The Business Post. Click on the player below to play the podcast audio (download: 28:27; 16MB; MP3), or scroll down to watch the video. Emmet Ryan is "busy and bored". I know the feeling. Lockdown [...]

The Lock-In Episode 36: Emmet Ryan is Busy and Bored is an article from Hosting & Domains News - News, tips & offers from Ireland's leading hosting & domain registration companies

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Today we're talking about business. Brian O'Farrell, CEO of County Carlow Chamber, talks about the issues facing businesses in these times, the importance of community support and an innovative project to promote local companies in Carlow. Click on the player below to play the podcast audio (download: 18:51; 11MB; MP3), or scroll down to watch the [...]

The Lock-In Episode 35: Showing Carlow some Love is an article from Hosting & Domains News - News, tips & offers from Ireland's leading hosting & domain registration companies

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Today on The Lock-In Podcast we're talking to Tara Howley from Kilfenora, County Clare, All-Ireland champion musician, Riverdance performer and social media star. (The cover-photo is by Awake and Dreaming Photography). Click on the player below to play the podcast audio (download: 20:12; 12MB; MP3), or scroll down to watch the video. Tara is [...]

The Lock-In Episode 34: Jerusalema on the Beach, with Tara Howley and Snámhaí Sásta is an article from Hosting & Domains News - News, tips & offers from Ireland's leading hosting & domain registration companies

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The Lock-In Podcast is back with the first episode of 2021. Blacknight's pandemic podcast is about how we live now and today we're putting remote work under the microscope and talking to someone whose company committed themselves to it long before lockdowns were heard of. Sean Brady from CloudAssist helps businesses to work remotely using [...]

The Lock-In Episode 33: The Future of Remote Work? Sean Brady May Already Be There is an article from Hosting & Domains News - News, tips & offers from Ireland's leading hosting & domain registration companies

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Today's guest is Robert Grace, singer, songwriter, popstar, and a friend of ours at Blacknight. (He and our co-founder, Paul Kelly, are cousins). His song, Fake Fine, has been one of the big hits of the lockdown, recording millions of hits on streaming platforms, YouTube, and TikTok where he has been growing his following. It's [...]

The Lock-In Episode 32: Robert Grace on Being ‘Fake Fine’ and Having a Pandemic Pop Hit is an article from Hosting & Domains News - News, tips & offers from Ireland's leading hosting & domain registration companies

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On today's show we're joined by Evelyn Moynihan from The Kilkenny Group, one of Ireland's leading retail brands, and home to the largest collection of Irish designers. Earlier this year, they joined forces with Visa, and the business groups Retail Excellence, the Small Firms Association and Chambers Ireland, to setup Champion Green, a movement aimed [...]

The Lock-In Episode 31: Evelyn Moynihan from Champion Green is Turning Black Friday Green for Irish Business is an article from Hosting & Domains News - News, tips & offers from Ireland's leading hosting & domain registration companies

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Today's podcast comes from Rome, where Colm Flynn from County Clare works as a television news reporter, covering The Vatican for EWTN, the Catholic TV network based in America. Click on the player below to play the podcast audio (download: 15:33; 9MB; MP3), or scroll down to watch the video. Colm and I are [...]

The Lock-In Episode 30: Colm Flynn Reports From Rome is an article from Hosting & Domains News - News, tips & offers from Ireland's leading hosting & domain registration companies

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When we decided to call this podcast series The Lock-In, we borrowed the idea from a tweet by David McWilliams. While a 'lockdown' sounds oppressive and unpleasant, a lock-in is a treat, a forbidden pleasure. https://twitter.com/davidmcw/status/1243813758260183042 So when I read that three remote-working creative professionals had moved into a disused, though charming, pub in County [...]

The Lock-In Episode 29: Áine Leech is Locked In at Daly’s Pub in Ennistymon is an article from Hosting & Domains News - News, tips & offers from Ireland's leading hosting & domain registration companies

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This week on The Lock-In Podcast we're talking to Eoin Kennedy, founder of Congregation, the annual ideas event which takes place each year in the lovely village of Cong, Co Mayo. Except, this year, it doesn't. Congregation 2020 is a virtual event - all online - and the only people in Cong will be the [...]

The Lock-In Episode 28: Eoin Kennedy on Congregation without Cong is an article from Hosting & Domains News - News, tips & offers from Ireland's leading hosting & domain registration companies

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On this week's show we're talking to Conor O'Neill, Chief Product Officer at Nearform, the company that built Ireland's open-source Covid Tracker App for the Health Service Executive and went on to develop and support versions of the app for health authorities around the world. Click on the player below to play the podcast audio [...]

The Lock-In Episode 27: How The Irish Covid Tracker App Went Global is an article from Hosting & Domains News - News, tips & offers from Ireland's leading hosting & domain registration companies