Finally. The 27th October has arrived. A legion of fans have awaited for today for a long time. Some of them first saw The Blizzards at a college gig. Some saw them at Oxegen. Some saw them in the hometown. Some saw them in all these places. Whatever happened, The Blizzards have established themselves as a superb live act and have built a great passionate fan base. Today is their debut album “A Public Display of Affection”...

Mullingar’s biggest band are launcheing their highly anticipated debut album this Friday. The band have been in the singles cart numerous times at this stage, so hopefully this will be reflected in the album chart. If you have heard The Blizzards before, you’ll know this is a must buy. If you have’nt - then it’s definatley a must buy!...

RTE Morning Ireland, Reuters and Bloomberg all report this morning that Michael O’Leary’s Ryanair has made a bid for just floated Irish airline Aer Lingus. Aer Lingus only floated last week, however it has transpired that the low fares gaint has already aquired 16% of the firm. The IPO price was €2.20, however they have risen quickly...

Dell will finally start to offer AMD processors inside their desktop computers from today (Wednesday). The AMD Athlon 64 X2 among others will appear as an option in several of the computer giants desktop computers. This is the first time Dell have offered a non-Intel option for processors and marks a significant ...

The second biggest music download website in the USA, eMusic, has just launched in Europe. eMusic allows users to Download, Play, Burn MP3s or simply to browse its huge catalogue of 1.7m songs from over 8,500 indedpendent record labels. The firm today officially launched in all 25 EU states offering music for both iPods and MP3 players. This...

First we could buy books, then CD’s, Videos and DVD’s at Amazon.com. Naturally the product line kept expanding to include high value consumer electronics and media like computers, cameras, software, mobile phones, videos, etc. Jeff Bezos’ next idea was to turn Amazon into...

There have been quite a few big business stories in the past few hours/days. All seem fairly positive for Ireland. First up is the big “Aer Lingus to float for €950m” story; Google News links to over a hundred articles on the subject. So it’s certainly filling the papers. Personally i’m fully behind the float, it makes sense...

I ment to mention this the other day, but did’nt get round to it (we had our debs on monday, great night!), Mullingar’s top band at the moment, The Blizzards, entered the Irish singles chart at no. 9 on Friday with “Miss Fantasia Preaches”....

“The best thing out of Mullingar since Joe Dolan”… or so says The Irish Times in todays The Ticket section. The Blizzards today released there eagerly anticipated new single Miss Fantasia Peaches, the first song to be taken from their new album due out next month....

I was amazed last week to discover you can now get a PC for as little as €270 - I’m so use to browseing for fancy machines that cost a grand each, so figures that low really caught my eye. However the unbelieveable drop in the price of electronics in recent years has manifested itself in many other products besides PC’s...