Sky & RTE will share summer games. Both RTE and Sky will share live GAA championship coverage on television for the next five years. If the reported figures around the money the GAA has managed to secure for it’s television and radio rights arrangements are true, grassroots clubs looks set for a windfall down the […]
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Good News for SME’s €70 million lower cost funding for specialist equipment and vehicles
Great news for Irish business. Ballywire Video. More badly needed credit is becoming available at a lower cost. The Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (SBCI) and FEXCO Asset Finance have announced a new funding package of €70 million that will allow Irish SMEs to borrow at a lower cost for specialist equipment and vehicles. The […]
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Tragic stories that hit home – ‘What’s Left Behind’.
At the heart of all the content we create at Ballywire are human stories. They can be about an entrepreneur who has a great idea, even a business capitalising on new trends or technologies. However one of the most touching strands of content we worked on was under the umbrella of Embrace FARM, a support […]
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Like rugby? Want to edit video? No money involved though!
Fair play to the team at IP&TV News who got a real global exclusive in the video content and sports space in their latest newsletter. The question of how to police broadcast content and more to the point monetize it is something bedeviling every media and content publisher today. Broadcast companies pay big bucks for […]
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What does the future of digital journalism look like?
These are challenging times for traditional media, newspapers especially. Journalists not already wondering about what their futures look like must surely be thinking in that direction now following the announcement by London Independent newspaper owner Evgeny Lebedev that he plans to close the publications daily and Sunday print titles to focus on a digital proposition. […]
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Ballywire goes 360 degrees!
It was like Christmas morning at Ballywire Towers when this yoke arrived… Looks like a snooker ball but it’s one of a new breed of video camera which like a lot of the toys Santa delivers sounds great in principle. A 360° HD video recorder. You’ve heard of a Go Pro? This is aimed at […]
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Will there ever be a better sporting/brand ambassador?
A sporting icon. A Leader. A Warrior. There are about a thousand words on the list to describe Paul O’Connell. Ballywire was lucky enough to spend a day in the Limerick man’s company for a trip to the North Tipperary town of Nenagh when even more qualities emerged. The man who injected ‘manic aggression’ into […]
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