Adam Higgins

2 weeks ago | thesun.ie | Adam Higgins

IRELAND’S new media watchdog has warned about the rise of AI-generated child sex abuse images online. Coimisiun na Mean today launched its first three-year strategy as they vowed to protect children online and clamp down on disinformation. The new State body will also roll out a media campaign to advise the public how to identify and report fake information, hate speech and other harmful content online. The Coimisiun was set up by the last Government as a regulator for broadcast and online media.

3 weeks ago | thesun.ie | Adam Higgins

JUST over 200 days to go until the election to decide who will become Ireland’s next President, and we still have no real contenders putting up their hand to try to take the top job. After 14 years, Michael D Higgins will leave Aras an Uachtarain at the end of the year, with November 11 being the latest date an election can be held. The Galway man’s huge popularity probably prevented some Presidential hopefuls from taking a shot at the election last time around in 2018.

3 weeks ago | thesun.ie | Adam Higgins

A YOUNG boy is set to cycle across the country in a bid to raise money for charity. Little Conan Woulfe, nine, will pedal from Westport in Co Mayo to Dublin this week as he aims to raise €10,000 for the Saint Vincent De Paul organisation. Conan, from Dublin, set off from Westport on Easter Monday and will cycle between 65 and 95km every day as he tried to reach the capital by Saturday.

3 weeks ago | thesun.ie | Adam Higgins

SOCIAL media companies would be banned from using “toxic” algorithms on children under the age of 18 as part of a new bill aimed at protecting the mental health of young people. Platforms such as TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and X use algorithms to promote content specifically aimed at a user based on the interactions they have had with other posts.

3 weeks ago | thesun.ie | Adam Higgins

PARTS of Ireland could have been completely devastated by flooding if the record breaking Storm Eowyn had hit just one week earlier, new research has shown. The January storm brought record breaking winds of 184 kmph and resulted in hundreds of thousands of people being left without energy for days. Researchers at the University of Galway have been studying the storm surge caused by the storm which was 2.5 metres above the normal tidal water levels.