About @Ireland
The @Ireland Twitter account rotates each week with a new voice introduced every Monday morning. As the Ireland of today is not confined to the island of Ireland, the varied voices of @Ireland come from Ireland and across the world.
Started in March 2012 and inspired by the @Sweden project, @Ireland is based around the idea that a single voice cannot represent a country. By sharing people's experiences and lives with the world, project custodians WorldIrish believe @Ireland can help to further connect Ireland to the world and the world to Ireland through the different voices that curate the account each week.
People can apply to be the voice of @Ireland for a week or can nominate a person they believe could represent Ireland. To apply or nominate someone email: [email protected]. If you are applying to curate @Ireland yourself please include the following in your email: your own Twitter account handle (username), your phone number and times/days that are convienient to contact you, a one-paragraph biog telling us about yourself and a 140-character description of why you would make a good @Ireland curator!
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Previous Curators
@Ireland Curator: Enda Crowley
19th Nov 2012 to 25th Nov 2012
Enda Crowley is a three-time expat (who's currently living in his 25th house), electric car geek and twitter addict. Past lives have found him living and studying in Austria, Germany and The Netherlands, building a mobile augmented reality startup in Dublin and being a tech retail guy. He’s currently buried under a first-year Law workload in Cork city while trying to create the mis-spent youth he thinks he missed out on. He can often be found shouting "faster, faster, faster!" while cycling through Cork or over @endac.
Tweets:
20:04 25th Nov 2012 - Link
Signing off as @ireland but please give the wonderful @anniewestdotcom a warm welcome as next weeks curator!
18:39 23rd Nov 2012 - Link
Fantastic thanksgiving dinner with my American friends today. Took a day off my low-carb diet and gorged myself. Big guilty cycle tomorrow!
17:35 23rd Nov 2012 - Link
My American friends here on student visa have noted their ‘interactions’ with the men of Cork. Not exactly charming. pic.twitter.com/Mm6vRVc8
02:08 23rd Nov 2012 - Link
Tonight is CIT ‘Christmas Day’ where everyone from CIT gets hammered and makes a mess of the town. UCC students do it the other 364 days.
17:59 22nd Nov 2012 - Link
Couldn't agree more with @lyonsv. The lads over in @tophatsoftware are doing amazing work. They make everyone else my age look lazy! :)
17:55 22nd Nov 2012 - Link
Happy thanksgiving, folks! :)
14:53 22nd Nov 2012 - Link
@feyhops oh for goodness sake.
14:50 22nd Nov 2012 - Link
Reading up on the barristers code or conduct here in Ireland. Reminded of this Father Ted clip… youtube.com/watch?v=XGo8zX…
14:39 22nd Nov 2012 - Link
@brandalisms it’s going well, Andrea! :P
13:02 21st Nov 2012 - Link
@ojfie @msgill @edwardmelvin now there’s a question I can answer! What are you looking for in your night out?
23:48 20th Nov 2012 - Link
@missjkenny they actually probably would! Will (continue to) say nice things about ya so! :P
16:46 20th Nov 2012 - Link
Slogging through 'Historical developments of the Irish legal system'. I finally have time to pester ye. Any other expats who came back?
16:42 20th Nov 2012 - Link
@GoCarIreland @GoCarDublin its from Thursday!? Man they were running that on News Now this morning! But thats one!
16:29 20th Nov 2012 - Link
@PeopleOfCanada I think it’s @car2go who are big over there. They’ve electric smart cars in Amsterdam that I saw EVERYWHERE
16:24 20th Nov 2012 - Link
@thegaelichour I guess its a matter of respect and regular inspection (also hefty deposits against any damages you make help :P)
16:23 20th Nov 2012 - Link
@thegaelichour thats the other thing. I don't think there have been too many issues, never had one with my 2 years of dublin bikes
16:20 20th Nov 2012 - Link
@TimForde @MayorMontague you're absolutely right there. @GoCarDublin seem to have a good system in place, all about raising awareness now!
16:13 20th Nov 2012 - Link
Still skeptical that the Irish will adopt car-sharing but @mayormontague has really proven me wrong with the massive success of Dublin Bikes
16:11 20th Nov 2012 - Link
Having trouble finding it online, but there was a great piece about @GoCarDublin this morning. More on-street parking, more visibility.
12:41 20th Nov 2012 - Link
@Claredaisy he’s still in UCC, not sure if he lectures, his 1997 book on the Irish constitution is like gold these days.
12:37 20th Nov 2012 - Link
Beautiful, albeit blustery day in Cork city today. Off to UCC for lunch before a constitutional law class at 2.
11:04 20th Nov 2012 - Link
I’d done so well at repressing that one :) “@niamhspectrum: @ireland Was Dublin so bad that you’re pretending it never happened?! :P”
10:49 20th Nov 2012 - Link
Kilkenny, Carlow, Louth, Cork, Kerry, Eindhoven, Utrecht, Vienna and Dusseldorf “@gra5105: @ireland Where have you lived to move 25 times!”
09:01 20th Nov 2012 - Link
@gra5105 @morning_ireland that’s absolutely what I would have done! Though I wonder does the tracksuit material irritate a microphone?
09:00 20th Nov 2012 - Link
Uh-oh. They caught onto me. pic.twitter.com/YEd4QIPv
08:59 20th Nov 2012 - Link
@WeAreAustralia oh my! Best of luck! :)
08:57 20th Nov 2012 - Link
Anyone think the @morning_ireland people wore suits before they knew we were watching? pic.twitter.com/tosbJ4mL
08:55 20th Nov 2012 - Link
@b2dac I think I applied a very long time ago but I just got a phone call last week and signed up! You should definitely do this!
08:54 20th Nov 2012 - Link
@spiller2 @donal_cahalane no rules against, but there are decency laws :P
08:54 20th Nov 2012 - Link
@wholesomeIE did not think I would and I still think I might just be in-love my lecturer but the Scottish referendum fascinates me!
08:38 20th Nov 2012 - Link
@donal_cahalane let’s give this diet another week and then we’ll talk about topless pictures :P
08:37 20th Nov 2012 - Link
@ScottArbs 9C in Douglas Cork. No rain yet so that’s a big win for us.
08:36 20th Nov 2012 - Link
@wholesomeIE two classes, intro to law and constitutional law (my favourite!) and a meeting! Quiet enough day. Lots of time for tweets! :)
08:29 20th Nov 2012 - Link
Morning folks! Sorry for radio silence yesterday. Stage fright and I was trying to get an assignment finished! How are we all this morning?
12:48 19th Nov 2012 - Link
@kencurtin too many Enda’s these days. Thinking about letting someone run @endac for the week now :P
12:46 19th Nov 2012 - Link
@damiankeane86 think it’ll have to be a GAA lunch of a slightly soggy ham, cheese and tayto sandwich, a can of coke and a mars bar!
12:19 19th Nov 2012 - Link
Still can't get over logging into twitter as "ireland" - I feel like I should have put some bunting up around the apartment for the week!
09:10 19th Nov 2012 - Link
@patriciamacb oh wow! That sounds fascinating! Do keep us posted!
08:43 19th Nov 2012 - Link
@draperha I know that feeling, today feels like its going to be a long one!
08:43 19th Nov 2012 - Link
@brandalisms thank you! :)
08:34 19th Nov 2012 - Link
Good morning everyone! How are we today?