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Donnacha Cahill is our guest on today’s podcast. He’s the artist behind The Gramophone, a sculpture which will feature next week at the Carlow Arts Festival. The installation is sponsored by Blacknight. Click on the player below to play the podcast, or download it here: 16:03; 9MB; MP3. Made from mild steel and resonating with […]
At Blacknight we’re all about taking care of business, but everybody needs a break. That’s why we sponsor events that are designed to feed the soul, like IndieCork, and the arts festival in our home town! Carlow Arts Festival (formerly Éigse) is celebrating its 39th year this year, and we’re delighted to be a sponsor. […]
At Blacknight we love our work, but we know that there’s more to life! We work hard to grow our business and to help our customers grow theirs. But we also appreciate the things that make life worth living. We’ve got a strong record of supporting the arts: such as our sponsorship of the IndieCork Film Festival, and […]
We’ve been sponsors of the Cork Lifelong Learning Festival for the last couple of years and are delighted to be involved again this year. Details below: Blacknight Sponsor 10th Annual Cork Lifelong Learning Festival Leading domain registrar continues commitment to local education March 4, 2013 – Carlow, Ireland – Ireland’s leading domain registrar and hosting […]
We’ve been involved with the Irish Internet Association and their annual awards ceremony, the Net Visionary Awards, for several years. We’ve sponsored it, been nominated, been shortlisted and even won a few awards over the past few years. This year we’re sponsoring a category that we feel particularly strongly about – “Best Use of Social […]
Next weekend Kilkenny will be playing host to Wordcamp Ireland. We’re the headline sponsor, though admittedly I’ve been a bit remiss in promoting our involvement! In any case the event runs over two days, with three tracks: Intro track Blogger’s track Tech track The schedule includes some very interesting topics regardless of your level of […]
You might remember that we finally got our logo onto the side of a car … And here it is again: Yes – I am enjoying seeing our logo on the side of a car. And? 🙂 It may not be a Formula 1 car, but the Hindustan Ambassador is still “ok” by me.. Anyway […]
Just a reminder that tomorrow is the deadline for nominations in the 1st annual Irish Web Awards. Get nominating now! There are a very wide variety of categories, so you can probably find a couple of sites to nominate without too much effort. What makes the Irish Web Awards different? Well to start with it’s […]
Image via Wikipedia We’re pleased to announce that Alan O Rourke of SpoiltChild design was the winner of the recent Web 2.0 Ireland logo competition. Blacknight, Microsoft and PollDaddy provided prizes, with us offering a year’s VPS hosting to the winner! We’ll be liasing with Alan to ensure he gets to make full use of […]
We’re delighted to be involved in some little way with the next BarCamp event which is being held on Saturday, June 21st 2008 in Queen’s University. Unfortunately I won’t be able to attend, as I will be in Paris for the ICANN meeting. If you’re interested in finding out more or would like to simply […]
As we mentioned previously, we are one of the sponsors of the Irish Internet Association’s Congress, which takes place this year in Dublin’s Croke Park. Full details of the event may be found here If you would like to avail of a 20% discount on booking simply use the coupon code: Congress2008 As we’re sponsors […]
Most days our post is boring. There are invoices and other stuff for our accounts team. There might be the odd payment from clients who still pay us by cheque or maybe even a copy of a magazine. It’s nice to get a “thank you” letter from time to time and it really does make […]