New blog post from @castlebridge-chief.bsky.social castlebridge.ie/insights/dat... - a side quest from his doctoral research has Daragh digging into some classic texts from the domain of cybernetics that are compellingly relevant to the challenges of #DataGoverance and #AIGovernance today.

Playing All the Right Notes: What Stafford Beer Can Teach Us About Data Governance

Understand the importance of a data governance control system in managing data trust and accountability in your business.

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Congratulations to @castlebridge-chief.bsky.social on winning a lifetime achievement award from the Information and Records Management Society. (He’s going to be insufferably smug around the office for a few days.)

New #whitepaper by @castlebridge-chief.bsky.social out today, based on research for a keynote delivered last year for #IRMUK. Food for thought for the workforce of the future. castlebridge.ie/resources/fi...

Five Questions for the Age of Artificial Cognition: Generative AI, the Learning Ladder, and the Workforce of the Future

Learn about the risks of Artificial Intelligence in the workplace and the importance of nurturing future leaders. Read our whitepaper now! 📈

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🤝 We’re excited to announce a new collaboration between Castlebridge and @irmsociety.bsky.social Together, we will support practitioners across data governance, records & content management through training, events, and joint initiatives. 🔗 Read more: castlebridge.ie/news/irms-co...

💡5 days to go until the Data Leaders’ Summit! Final preparations are underway as speakers polish their talks & get ready to welcome data leaders to Wexford for two days of insight & discussion on the changing tide of data leadership. ⌛Limited tickets remain: dataleadersummit.ie/event/data-l...

Is your Data Governance programme where it needs to be? Join John Ladley for hard-won, practical advice for organizations tired of governance programs that promise much and deliver little. 19 March | Ferrycarrig Hotel, Wexford Limited tickets remain. dataleadersummit.ie/event/data-l...

⌛ 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱! Join Dr Anthony Mazzarella at our 3rd annual 𝘿𝙖𝙩𝙖 𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨’ 𝙎𝙪𝙢𝙢𝙞𝙩 (19 Mar, Wexford) for a half-day masterclass: 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘎𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘐 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. Learn how to scale AI responsibly with practical, real-world guidance. 🎫www.dataleadersummit.ie/master-class-schedule-2026/

Full-day masterclass at the Data Leaders’ Summit with @castlebridge-chief.bsky.social: Designing Resilient Human-Centric Governance of Data & AI -moving beyond compliance to governance that adapts under pressure. 📅 19 March | Wexford 🎫 dataleadersummit.ie/master-class-schedule-2026/

I've written a short blog post inspired by the podcast discussion that mixes #DataProtection and #DoctorWho, which will surely pique @tupped.bsky.social's interest. castlebridge.ie/insights/leg...

Legislating for the Tiresome

I wasn’t going to do a #DataProtectionDay post. But the discussion we had on the podcast this week got me thinking again about why data protection matters and why how we conceptualise and operationali...

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It's #DataProtectionDay. A few days ago @castlebridge-chief.bsky.social got together with @tupped.bsky.social and Blessing Mutiro from the team to chat about #CollectiveHarms and questions of governance theory and traditions in #DataProtection practice. #GingerRights castlebridge.ie/podcasts/mak...

Making Waves - Data Protection Day Episode

Direct Links to Podcast Episode: About this Episode In this thought-provoking episode of the Talk Data To Me podcast for World Data Protection Day, Daragh is joined by Dr Blessing Mutiro—fresh from su...

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Google to pay $68 million over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

Google to pay $68 million over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users

Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.

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#DataProtectionDay today. The #TalkDataToMe podcast has been taken off the shelf and dusted down for 2026. castlebridge.ie/podcasts/mak... (with special guest @tupped.bsky.social)

Making Waves - Data Protection Day Episode

Direct Links to Podcast Episode: About this Episode In this thought-provoking episode of the Talk Data To Me podcast for World Data Protection Day, Daragh is joined by Dr Blessing Mutiro—fresh from su...

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⏰ Early Bird tickets for the Data Leaders’ Summit close 31 Jan. Limited seats. Two days of candid discussion, hands-on masterclasses & practical AI insights - plus a complimentary night at the Ferrycarrig Hotel. Don’t miss it. Join us in Wexford this March. 🎫 dataleadersummit.ie/event/data-l...

This reminds about the time that this very important service almost ceased to exist because the responsible petson in the Dept of Justice forgot - literally just forgot - to make the funding application to the EU one year

Sharrow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃@sharrow.eurosky.social · 7mo ago

Again if you see CSAM you report it to hotline.ie #Spéirgorm

A fun evening out for the opening night of #Wexford #Panto. Hard to believe it’s over 5 years that @castlebridge.bsky.social has been sponsoring this fantastic production put on by a dedicated team of volunteers and local performing arts groups. www.wexfordpanto.com Worth every penny.

Keynote speakers announced for the 2026 Data Leaders’ Summit! 💡Dr Angela McCourt | John Ladley | Sarah Clarke | Dr Tony Mazzarella Two days. Real-world insights from top industry leaders. 🎟️ Buy Super Early Bird tickets now – incl. 1 night at the Ferrycarrig Hotel dataleadersummit.ie/event/data-l...

Congratulations to our colleague Blessing Mutiro who successfully defended his PhD thesis in #DataProtection law at @tcddublin.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social this morning. Well done Dr. Mutiro. Here's an article Blessing wrote which covers some of the thinking edpl.lexxion.eu/article/EDPL...

a baby is sitting in a crowd with a woman holding him and screaming yes .

Alt: a baby is sitting in a crowd with a woman holding him and screaming yes .

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Pleased to announce that we started 2026 by formally signing up to the Irish Government's Charter on #DigitalInclusion. It wasn't that hard to do and doesn't require us to do anything beyond our core mission to ensure that people are empowered to effectively use data and technology as tools.

This was a nice thing to see over Christmas - people planning to travel to #Wexford from quite a way away to attend our #DataLeaderSummit in March. Some additional international industry 'names' will be there as well - details to be announced over the coming weeks.

Daragh @ Castlebridge@castlebridge-chief.bsky.social · 7mo ago

How good is the #DataLeaderSummit in #Wexford? Well, we've got people signing up to attend from Australia. For an *in-person* event. A limited number of All-Inclusive Super-EarlyBird tickets remain on sale dataleadersummit.ie/event/data-l...

This is an interesting read for many reasons (I’m a history nerd and a student of strategic management) www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/b... Expect to see it featuring in a future blog post or podcast. Because there’s resonance with many things I’m working on.

The Bizarre Story of 'Vasa,' the Ship That Keeps On Giving

'Vasa' sunk in front of horrified onlookers on this day in 1628, claiming 30 lives

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@castlebridge-chief.bsky.social has a new Insight where he discusses how the Oireachtas Committee Interim Report on AI echoes themes from our #DataLeaderSummit and the National Data Governance Roadmap we contributed to. castlebridge.ie/insights/loo... Interesting times ahead in 2026.

Ireland AI Governance: Preparing for the Future

Ireland has the AI governance blueprint. Join the Data Leaders Summit March 2026 to prepare Irish organisations for the National AI Office and EU Presidency

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An interesting thread on the impact of lobbying and where power lies in Ireland. That picture, that's us. Our beautiful lake, polluted. Despite all of the concrete decades-long evidence to suggest the derogation should not be extended so we can begin to restore water quality, here we are.

Simon McGarr@tupped.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Meanwhile established lobby groups, long inside the walls, can say “Ireland should use a chunk of its EU political capital to get a nitrates derogation so dairy farmers don’t have to change.” Most Irish people are not dairy farmers, and would prefer clean rivers www.antaisce.org/news/eu-nitr...

OpenAI warns new models pose 'high' cybersecurity risk www.reuters.com/business/ope...

OpenAI warns new models pose 'high' cybersecurity risk

OpenAI on Wednesday warned that its upcoming artificial intelligence models could pose a "high" cybersecurity risk, as their capabilities advance rapidly.

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🫧 What if the AI “bubble” doesn’t pop… but just wobbles? 🫧 That wobble might be the most useful moment yet. Tech cycles always leave something valuable for those who pay attention. 💡Read Daragh's latest blog to explore what the wobble means - castlebridge.ie/insights/whe...

At some point, the Govt has to learn that the way to keep people safe from information they might encounter isn't to prevent them ever encountering it, but to teach them how to deal with it, or how to choose to avoid it for themselves. 4/n

Our 2026 #DataLeaders Summit will take place in #Wexford on the 18th and 19th of March. Tickets will go on sale next month as we finalize some details in the background. See dataleadersummit.ie for details and to register interest so you can be kept up to date on the event.

Please watch "For All Mankind" on AppleTV so that it gets 10 seasons and a movie.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last yr.

what i think of when you say all-female space crew

I think it was under-reported (ie, not reported) that we came within a hair’s breadth of implementing a complete EU surveillance state *and* undermining the security of all messaging encryption on the 12th Dec last year. Ireland was backing Hungary’s plan to do it. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-a-b...

Latest Insights post by @castlebridge-chief.bsky.social looks at #DataStrategy, #ClimateAction and the implications of a recent High Court decision for Irish public sector #DataLeaders castlebridge.ie/insights/the...

The ‘Coolglass Effect’: Some Implications for Public Sector Data Strategy

Daragh discusses the data strategy implications for public bodies of a recent High Court Decision on climate action and windfarms

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Latest Insights post by @castlebridgechief.bsky.social looks at #DataStrategy, #ClimateAction and the implications of a recent High Court decision for Irish public sector #DataLeaders castlebridge.ie/insights/the...

The ‘Coolglass Effect’: Some Implications for Public Sector Data Strategy

Daragh discusses the data strategy implications for public bodies of a recent High Court Decision on climate action and windfarms

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