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Fill it up on cheap night-rate electricity, use it in the evening when power is dear, and all you need is a socket. That's the pitch for plug-in home batteries. But can you actually use one that way in Ireland? Short answer: not the plug-in way. Not yet. As of the time of writing, we couldn't find an approved way in Ireland to plug a battery into an ordinary socket and have it power your house. A battery hardwired by a Registered Electrical Contractor is a different story, an

A couple of solar panels on the balcony railing, a lead into an ordinary socket, and the house takes a little less from the grid while the sun's out. Germany allows it under set conditions, and the UK joined in at the end of August. So can you do it in Ireland? The answer comes in two halves. When going to press with this article, Irish officials still say plugging a solar kit into a socket yourself isn't compliant. The route they describe as compliant today is having it hard

Google's new AI chatbot, Bard, which can generate natural and engaging conversations on any topic, has been postponed in its European launch due to privacy concerns raised by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). The DPC, which oversees Google's data practices in the EU, asked Google to provide a data protection impact assessment for Bard, as required by the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). However, Google failed to do so, and the DPC requested more infor