Former Davy chief leaves posts at Trinity College and Dublin hospital Bond scandal costs Brian McKiernan roles on Provost’s Council and hospital board
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Former Davy stockbrokers chief executive Brian McKiernan has resigned from the Provost’s Council at Trinity College Dublin and the board of a Dublin hospital in the wake of the bond deal scandal.
Mr McKiernan stepped down as a member of the advisory council at the university and the governing council of the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital on Adelaide Road in Dublin.
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Revisiting BBC s The Adventure game. Updated on 14 February 2021
It s a little-known fact but the sight of a wobbling aspidistra plant can bring on quite powerful flashbacks for anyone who grew up in the first flushes of the early 80s home computer era, and it s all thanks to a kids TV show called The Adventure Game. A selection of episodes of this almost-forgotten oddity were recently added to the Britbox streaming service, while there s also a DVD boxset containing all the surviving episodes. If you have any interest in how gaming evolved it s a fascinating case study.
The Adventure Game was created in 1979 by veteran BBC children s producer Patrick Dowling, who had previously delivered such era-defining shows as the summer holiday staple Why Don t You.? and brought genteel artist Tony Hart to our screens in Vision On and later Take Hart. The idea came from his interest in Colossal Cave Adventure, the genre-defining computer game written by
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