Padraig Belton

1 month ago | bbc.com | Padraig Belton

Can AI help modernise Ireland's healthcare system? Padraig BeltonMaterThe Mater hospital in Dublin - home to Ireland's busiest emergency departmentFor a country famous as Big Tech's European address, Ireland's hospitals often lag far behind in technology. They lack shared computerised patient records, or unique identifiers to track people when they move between clinics. In July 2024, a computer system failure made Dublin's Mater hospital push back surgeries and beg people not to come to its A&E.

2 months ago | businesspost.ie | Padraig Belton

This September, Ireland becomes the last country in the OECD, the world’s group of 38 higher-income and developed countries, to adopt pension auto-enrolment. “If we’re worried about elderly poverty, auto-enrolling will be a positive thing,” said Dr Claire Keane, who gave the keynote address on 30 January at the National Pension Summit, now in its sixth year. Ireland has been an “outlier” not to introduce it sooner, she said.

Dec 2, 2024 | msn.com | Padraig Belton

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Dec 2, 2024 | theguardian.com | Padraig Belton

Anna Lo, who has died aged 74 of cancer, was Northern Ireland’s first minority ethnic elected representative. She represented South Belfast for the Alliance party in the Northern Ireland Assembly from 2007 to 2016. There she established all-party groups on subjects ranging from ethnic minorities to human trafficking.

Nov 26, 2024 | vodafone.co.uk | Ally Stevens |Alan Lu |Matt Wall |Padraig Belton

Ivan Donn, who sold the company’s first phone in September 1984, looks back at the company’s past and speaks about his hopes for the future. Technology, and the pace at which it evolves and changes, can be intimidating and disorienting for some people. Not so for Ivan Donn. Now an independent telecoms consultant, Ivan started his career back in 1984 as one of the earliest salespeople at what was then a small start-up – Vodafone.