John Whelan

Founder of 4 startups but nay exit. Set up and ran bothLaunchbox & Launchpad at Trinity College. Now commercialising IT research at TCD . Personal Views Here.

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Our new Innovation Hub Garden

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Where does your salary stretch the most? See how purchasing power reshapes global wage rankings—and why Switzerland ranks lower than expected. https://t.co/EqYZqosyIq via @visualcap

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Quiz time at ARC Hub for ICT information session : The Enterprise Value of Startups in ireland is c. €100bn . How much of that is from companies founded by PhDs:
A: €8bn
B: €12bn
C: €25 bn

Answer on a postcard please or if you prefer in comments. #euinmyregion

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Watched Hamnet in this venue location where you get a get a comfy seat for 15 euro. And watch a big screen. My takeaway is that there are 25,000 plus Hamnet stories in Gaza .

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One of the many differences between the West and Dublin is that women in the West still go out for drinks event it's pissin rain

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Quantum computing ever is proven to be useful these are the people who can do it. https://t.co/tj9qg3anl1 https://t.co/8Z7awzFM3P

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" If students navigating higher education believe the goal is to pass rather than to learn, then student misuse of generative AI technologies is nothing more than a rational action by a rational agent." https://t.co/7WZkrsWJCE

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@tcddublin campus company Solvotrin Therapeutics - Active Iron expands in China. "The partnership aims to achieve €8.6m in retail sales value in three years and was developed by an Irish team of 17 at TCD" https://t.co/nGpn15dvZl

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This is *EXACTLY* what the Irish Startup "ecosystem" needs at present. Well done Eamon Leonard !

"The Baseline founders said they became ‘frustrated’ with the ‘institutionalisation’ of how start-ups are built in Ireland."

https://t.co/of319HSzyK

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

The BBC found evidence Israeli forces deliberately sniped Palestinian children — over 60% shot in the head or chest.

Israel has killed about 21,000 children in two years, with a spike even before October 7.

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Simple question why would this story not lead on all mainstream news channels? As an Irish person who lived through the eighties this can end in the worst possible way.
https://t.co/0JzFT04MJQ

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

The SILENCE of the politico-media elites over the 8 hunger-strikers in UK jails protesting about the GENOCIDE in Gaza and their own conditions, is SHAMEFUL and a betrayal of humane values and of basic journalism too

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Trinity College Dublin receives its first cryptocurrency donation. With donation of €25,000 in stablecoin from @aave Labs , @tcddublin has become the first university in Ireland to receive a philanthropic donation in #cryptocurrency

https://t.co/osRxXefzGX

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Rush Tribute

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This university is ranked No 1 in Dublin for graduate employment
TU Dublin now offers 170 CAO courses to inspire young minds.

https://t.co/DbHPIODMTT

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Trinity drops in world university rankings from 139th to 173rd

https://t.co/pMO02OG7fo

[Justin ROSE @JustinRose99]

Some afternoon with my boy @TommyFleetwood1

@RyderCupEurope 💙💛 #TheRyderCup

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

Sky News interviewed a Jewish protester about Netanyahu’s UN speech.

“The genocide supporters like to point to October 7… this didn’t start 2 years ago… this is 70+ years of occupation… Israel is an apartheid, ethnonationalist state…”

Conveniently, Sky News cut the feed.

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"An ode to telegraph poles in an age of giant pylons" : @tcddublin spinout AIMapit is the world's leading expert in tracking street assets. Originally they honed their AI algorithm and pipeline on the humble Telegraph Pole for @eir Ireland https://t.co/Yp2fYnu1xQ

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Another fundraising round for another @tcddublin company https://t.co/eJExlUxCMU