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15 year old student gets the chance to redesign Google’s logo for a day

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A 15 year old student from Donegal in Ireland has won the 2013 Doodle 4 Google competition. Her version of the Google logo will appear on google.ie tomorrow

Ireland's 2012 Doodle 4 Google winner, Patrick Horan

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One school in Ireland keeps creating winning Doodles 4 Google

Piers Dillon Scott10 years ago

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St. Munchin’s College's Patrick Horan wins 2012's Doodle 4 Google Ireland competition - the second win for the Limerick Secondary School.

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Twitter is looking for you to work in its Dublin office

Piers Dillon Scott11 years ago

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A week after it announced that it was opening office in Dublin Twitter has begun looking for Irish staff.

Artists impression of the Montevetro building in Dublin's Grand Canal Dock

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Google buys Ireland’s tallest commercial building, the Montevetro

Darren McCarra11 years ago

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Google have once again shown their commitment and long-term vision in Ireland by purchasing Ireland’s tallest commercial building, the Montevetro, for a reported €99.9 million. The newly built property sits directly across the street from Google’s current operations in Gordon House on Dublin’s Barrow Street, and will house their European, Middle East and African (EMEA) headquarters.

O'Connell Street in Dublin using Google's Street View

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It’s official: Google launches Street View in Ireland [UPDATED]

Darren McCarra12 years ago

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As speculated in a previous post, Google officially announced the launch of Street View in Ireland today. A total of 80,000km of panoramic imagery of Irish streets and roads will be made available on Google Maps from tomorrow night, including the cities of Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway, and Waterford.

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You may have heard of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his followers, commonly known as Rajneeshees or sannyasins, from the incredibly popular Netflix documentary “Wild, Wild Country.”

Well in today’s episode we speak with a former follower of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh cult to get a better understanding of how this society functioned, what it was like to live in normal society as a member of the cult, and what it was like on the famous Oregon ranch.

With our guest, Annie (who has asked to remain anonymous but showed her mala that she wore during her time as a Rajneshee to prove her affiliation with the cult), we find out how she first find out about Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and the Rajneeshees, and what inspired her to join their cult, where she goes into great detail about how she found them when she was 16 at an Alcoholics Anonymous event.

She also shares why life as a Rajneeshee was difficult off the ranch in normal society, as society often treated them with a mixture of suspicion, curiosity, and fear. In fact, she was fired from all of her jobs due to her membership in the cult, but she also explains how she saw this as a positive, “a trial by fire” as she claims.

Annie also goes into detail about what it was like visiting the ranch in 1983, when, she believes, much of the footage used in the documentary was filmed. She talks about the important role meditation played in being a Rajneeshee and what a normal day was like on the ranch.

She also shares her thoughts on how accurate the documentary was, how close she came to meeting Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and finally, how she left the cult in the end.

Overall, Annie explains why she doesn’t see the following as a religion or cult, but instead as a community and how this community had such an overall, lasting positive experience in her life.