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Hotel IT, food manufacturing, sport horse auctions, Microsoft 365, the actual work — written by the team doing it, not a content mill.

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Cybersecurity·

Hidden Cyber Risks in Luxury Hospitality Websites

What a public attack surface review reveals about Irish hotels — booking portals, voucher systems, DNS records, email authentication. Non-intrusive, no system access, no guest data.

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Networking·

pfSense captive portal setup for guest WiFi (Ireland)

A field-tested pfSense captive-portal config for Irish hotels and venues — VLAN segmentation, GDPR-compliant T&C capture, bandwidth shaping, voucher auth and the four pitfalls we see most often.

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Food Manufacturing·

Why AccountsIQ and Sage don't solve batch traceability alone

Accounting software books the invoice. It doesn't tell you which 47 pallets contain the affected batch when an FSAI inspector calls. Here's where Sage and AccountsIQ stop, and what the missing layer looks like.

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Hospitality·

Hotel guest WiFi checklist before peak season

Twelve specific things to check on your hotel's guest WiFi before peak season — VLANs, captive portal, bandwidth, GDPR retention, and the one DNS issue that takes down half of Irish hotels every August.

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Cybersecurity·

How to check if your Microsoft 365 tenant is exposed to email impersonation

Five checks every IT manager should run on a Microsoft 365 tenant before the next Business Email Compromise lands in finance's inbox. No tooling required, just the admin centre and one DNS lookup.

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Equine·

What a sport horse auction actually needs from its tech

€3.1M in a single sale. 28 buyer countries. Here's what the Ballypatrick Auctions platform does, what it doesn't do, and what we'd build again from scratch.

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Food manufacturing·

Why we built Keystone for Cashel Blue — and who it's for next

Ireland's original farmhouse blue cheese was still running on spreadsheets. The software most ERPs sell food makers doesn't fit their day. Keystone is the answer — and here's the story.

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Hospitality·

What hotels actually need from their IT provider

After twelve months working inside Irish hotels across three- and four-star properties, a short list of the things that move the needle — and the things that don't.

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