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GOOGLE HAS RELEASED its new images of Ireland as part of its Street View software.
The pictures takes in a wide range of locations and focuses on sites of cultural and historical importance around the country.
These include Christchurch Cathedral in Dublin, Co Clare’s Ennis Friary and Leitrim’s 17th century Parke’s Castle.
Dublin’s Aviva Stadium has also been included in the landmarks ahead of the 2015 Six Nations Championship, which starts next month.
Users of the website will be able to view both the insides and outsides of these buildings, with Google using a 40lb backpack containing a 15-angle lens camera to take the pictures. These allowed for 360 degree pictures to be taken every 2.5 seconds.
The public will be able to take virtual tours of a number of locations around the country through the new images.
Speaking about the development, Director of Operations at Christchurch Cathedral, Nuala Kavanagh, said:
We are very excited to showcase our iconic and much loved landmark on Google’s Street View and invite a wider audience to come and see for themselves one of Ireland’s most spectacularly beautiful cathedrals with one of the oldest and largest crypts in Europe.
Take a look at some of the highlights from Google Street View in Ireland here.
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Looking forward to watching it. Fair play too him. Hopefully he ll go on too create thousands of jobs in Waterford
Nice to see a smart young lad holding his own well done.
That’s fantastic, best of luck to him. Although you would hope the Dragons will offer support, advice and guidance to any Young Entrepreneurs rather than shattered their dreams.
Fair play, I don’t even know how my toaster works, to borrow from Woody Allen.
These kids you see like this and like the ones on Young Apprentice don’t you just want to shout “Climb a tree!” at them?
Thanks! Last time I climbed a tree I fell off and broke my ankle.. So, probably not doing that anymore.But, that doesn’t mean we “work” all day.We have a balance, I play soccer All the time! It’s a hobby and I love it :)
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@Jordan. Get yourself a copy of ‘Think and Grow Rich’. This will an accompaniment for a great life ahead of you. Best of luck
Jordan you are a legend. Very inspiring, best of luck with everything.
Well done Jordan. I went to school with your mother so it’s easy to see where you got your brains. What a great journey you’re on. Best of luck!
Nice one JC. Bet ya he wasn’t expecting u to respond. I have a 3 and a half year old son. I hope he grows up like u.
Whether or not this young man gets any Dragons to invest in his business, he seems to have the drive and passion to be a success, best of luck to him.
Nice entrepreneurial spirit and all but I hope he has something new to show the investors on that show. Having looked up the ones he’s made so far, they’re the type of stuff I’d be proud of had I made them at that age but I certainly wouldn’t be going looking for investment to start a company based on it.
A guy commenting on one of the game trailers offers some criticism and advice (albeit rudely) and the kid responds by willy waving saying how he’s been on tv countless times, talked at conferences and knows the creator of twitter. 13 year old behaviour. Yes. CEO behaviour, no. He’s not close to ready based on what I’ve seen, but that’s not to say he shouldn’t keep going with making games, just that he’s jumping the gun a little.
Judge for yourselves though, link below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B76PwdmPO1U
This is the kind of person who will create future companies of value and more importantly act as a positive role model for other young people. … fair play and good luck to him
My mother, my wife and now Jordan Casey!!!!!!!
Why the red thumbs? That was funny. :)
Well done lad.
After seeing both episodes last week at a screening for all those involved it was great to see some of the brilliant ideas these students had and getting to talk to them about their experiences. Hope for the future of entrepreneurial Ireland.
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You have to admire kids like this wee lad, I sincerely wish him well. Maybe he should be aiming his pitch at our Minister of Education though, with technology everywhere now, almost everyone has either a smartphone or access to the net, and this will only increase in the future.
Surely programming and technology should be a major school subject instead of something some smart kids learn themselves, our kids should be learning things like this in school, basic electronics and engineering instead of relying on others like the excellent Coder Dojo to do this job.
Fair play for having the get up and go, I downloaded 2 games, 1 was unplayable (Green Touch?) and filled with ads.. Barry asked what coding language he used and said AS3. Adobe Flash is a dying software and a way to make money from free games is in app purchases( Angry Birds etc) not ads – a long way to go but I would concentrate a lot more on development/collaboration of the products, one to watch and best of luck, my 2 cents.
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Fair play to him and I hope he does well out of it. I don’t think I’d like to work with any of those dragons though.
Childhood fail
Is that not saying that if a kid loves soccer and plays it all the time that it’s a “childhood fail”? I think of it as any other hobby and I love it :)
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