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Irish Examiner
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- Irish Examiner
Watch: Jerry from Kerry at the 2025 Cahirmee Horse Fair
The weather and the economy couldn't dampen the spirits at the annual Cahirmee Horse Fair in Buttevant, Irish Examiner chief photographer Dan Linehan speaks to Jerry from Kerry was looking for a fair price for his Cob jack.
Irish Examiner
2 days ago
- Irish Examiner
Ireland's social media regulator gives X extra time to clarify child safety rules
Elon Musk-owned X asked Ireland's media regulator to extend its deadline for the social media giant to clarify how it is keeping children safe on its platform. Coimisiún na Meán confirmed to the Irish Examiner that X had requested extra time to respond to its statutory notice seeking information on how it will comply with specific sections of the Online Safety Code. Having originally been asked to provide this information by July 22 or risk facing 'criminal liability', a new deadline of August 8 has been set. Crucially, this new deadline comes after the High Court is set to rule on a judicial review taken by X challenging what it has called the "regulatory overreach' from Coimisiún na Meán in how it proposes to hold big tech companies to account. X has asked the court to overturn the decision to apply the Online Safety Code to its platform. The decision in that judicial review is set to be delivered on July 25. Elon Musk's X now has until August to clarify how it is keeping children safe online. File picture: AP Photo/Michel Euler The regulator has fully contested the case, and has said the code is aimed at keeping people, especially children, safe online. The Online Safety Code sets binding rules on major platforms that also include Facebook and YouTube to prohibit harmful content like cyberbullying, racism, or incitement to hatred. It also makes it incumbent on platforms to have robust age assurance such as verifying a passport photo to prevent children from seeing pornography or gratuitous violence online, as 'merely asking users whether they are over 18 will not be enough'. Coimisiún na Meán says its code — which fully comes into effect this month — fits in with broader European legislation aimed at protecting people online, with big firms such as Meta, YouTube and TikTok obliged to adhere to its rules. Last month, the regulator wrote to X asking it to explain how it is complying with the code. 'Under Part A of the Code designated platforms must establish and operate age verification systems for users with respect to content which may impair physical, mental, or moral development of minors,' it said. 'For the purposes of Part A, the term 'age verification' includes effective age assurance measures including age estimation. 'Information provided by X so far is not sufficient to assess whether X's current measures are sufficient to protect children using the service. An Coimisiún is therefore using its statutory powers to seek further information.' The regulator said it would review the response from X if it has complied with part A of the code and determine if further action should be taken. Facing criminal liability If X does not respond, it said it could face a 'criminal liability, including a fine of up to €500,000'. If it is eventually found that X has breached its obligations under the Online Safety Code, it can be fined up to €20m or 10% of its turnover. A spokesperson for Coimisiún na Méan said: 'In June, [we] issued a statutory Information Notice to X Internet Unlimited Company, the provider of the platform X, with an obligation to respond by July 22, 2025. 'X have since requested an extension to this deadline and this request has been granted by An Coimisiún with a new deadline of August 8, 2025.' Read More US tariff announcement is deeply regrettable, Simon Harris says
Irish Examiner
3 days ago
- Irish Examiner
Boldly designed €945k Glanmire home is carefully mapped out
HOMES at Woodville, above Cork's Glanmire, are ageing gracefully, as is the overall development itself, not least thanks to the many retained mature trees and overall 'green' airiness of the hillside scheme. No 7 The Avenue, Woodville Dating to the mid-2000s, Woodville was successful development on up to ten acres around the period Woodville House, just over the brow of a hill from the large Dunkathel House and estate lands at Dunkettle. While Dunkathel took the best part of 20 years to get cleared for development (works started this year after an April 2025 grant of planning for 550 units after infrastructure/interchange upgrades, developers Rossdale got Woodville off the ground in the early to mid 200s, with a mix of apartments, townhouses, semi-ds and large detacheds, as well as conversion of the period house itself to four spacious apartment, with crisp, contemporary design and master-planning by Wilson Architects. Included in the mix was a number of quite large detacheds of 2,500 sq ft to nearly 3,000 sq ft in a section called The Courtyard, generally on decent sites by mature hardwoods, some offered for sale at €1m+ prices at the time. No 7 The Avenue, Woodville Few of the real whoppers have come for resale since, but a handful with an Avenue Woodville address have sold in the past decade, at prices from just under €500k to nearly €600k. Now, one of the bigger beasts is on the open Market: Almanzel, aka No 7 The Avenue Woodville is listed with a €945,000 AMV by agent Paul Fenton and Dan Linehan of Sherry FitzGerald, who are due to open a dedicated Sherry FitzGerald office in Glanmire later this summer as the area continues its growth and maturity, and as O'Flynn Group's Dunkettle development also gears up for years of sales ahead. Almanzel's (the Arabic word means 'the home' is a one-off, finished by its Irish/international family owners back nearly 20 years ago, on very substantial grounds of c 0.47 of an acre, with house itself in two linked sections, part two-storey, the other, below at a T-shape quite low-slung, dropping down in sections on a sloping site with expansive views over Glanmire's wooded valley and Glashaboy river beneath, with distant views to the hill above Cork city and Mayfield's playing pitches almost 'up in the gods.' The distinctive design sees the house link to a garage/store across a wide covered carport area, and inside the first sight to greet visitors is a compass motif with the four North, South, East and West cardinal points outlined on the tiled floor in the double height, stepped hall/landing. There are up to five bedrooms (none particularly large, however, and all with built-ins,) spread over two floors, and one's en suite, plus there's a generous home office/study space off on the uppermost level which also has two of the bedrooms, including the main en suite one. There's a very substantial triple aspect open plan dining/family/kitchen main heart of the house, bright, with corner window and opening to vast external deck, with a kitchen in oak with large black granite topped island, with a small utility as back-up behind, by a side passage leading to the family reception rooms, an all-weather space as it has both a gas fire and an air conditioning unit. The 2,060 sq ft C1-rated build is well-kept inside, with the external finishes a mix of white render and cedar, and it's ready to move into an personalise to its next owners' wishes. VERDICT: Spacious home on a very big, secure private and wooded site within well-rooted Woodville.
