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A random collection of news and links about Microsoft Ireland by Tom Murphy

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Tipperary Teacher to Represent Ireland at Global Teacher’s Competition in Hong Kong
Tipperary teacher, Kate O’Connell, whose teaching project beat the best of Europe, will be travelling to Hong Kong to represent Ireland at the 2008 Microsoft Worldwide Innovative Teacher’s Forum in November. Kate, who teaches at Scoil Mhuire, Kilvemnon Read More...
New Microsoft web site and pricing aims to ease the back to school burden...
Microsoft Ireland is today announcing two initiative in the run up to the return to school: The price for Microsoft Office Home and Students 2007 has been reduced from €119.99 to €79.99 A new back to school web site with tips and resources Read More...
Second Irish Team Qualify for the Imagine Cup Global Finals
Fantastic news, a second Irish team have qualified for the global finals of the 2008 Imagine Cup finals in Paris next month. The team, which is called AcidRain, hail from NUI Maynooth and they have qualified with a project which enables diesel engined Read More...
Sligo IT to represent Ireland at the 2008 World Imagine Cup Finals
ParkIT, a team from Sligo IT have been named as the national winners of Ireland's 2008 Imagine Cup competition. Park IT won for their project, which aims to reduce urban congestion and carbon emissions by intelligently providing real-time information Read More...
Irish teacher wins European Innovative Teacher award!
Kate O'Connell, a teacher at Scoil Mhuire Kilvemnon, Mullinahone in Tipperary won First place at the Microsoft Innovative Teacher Forum held in Zagreb on Saturday March 8th 2008. Kate won the Award in the "Innovation in Community" category. Read More...
Minister Hanafin addresses Government Leaders Forum in Berlin
The Minister for Education and Science Mary Hanafin T.D., today delivered a keynote address to the 2008 Government Leaders Forum , taking place in Berlin, Germany. The Forum, being hosted by Microsoft and now in its tenth year, brings together senior Read More...
Microsoft Postgraduate Research Scholarships awarded to DCU students
Four students in the School of Computing at Dublin City University, have been awarded scholarships to provide additional financial support for postgraduate research as part of the Microsoft Ireland scholarship programme.. The scholarship programme was Read More...
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