Beer, basketball and tech trends with Emmet Ryan, Business Post, and the value of journalism internships

We catch up with Emmet Ryan, Connected editor and many other things with@businessposthq, and also editor of http://Ballineurope.com, the answer to the riddle of steel

We cover tech trends, the value of journalism internships, how good was the Micheal Jordan Netflix series, and why season 2 of the Wire may or may not suck.

You can follow him on Twitter here https://twitter.com/emmetjryan

Emmet Ryan is editor of Connected Magazine and a business & technology reporter with the Sunday Business Post. In 2009, he was named Journalist of the Year at the IIA NetVisionary Awards and won the Alumni Choice Award at the 2014 Business Journalist Awards.

Some of the topics we discussed ->

Beer, sport & tech, what a great combination of interests, if you had to rank them!? How do they interplay, or is it also good to simply have some diverse passions?

In what areas of tech does Ireland do well, & why so?

How is the Business Post & Connected evolving and moving into the digital world? Will it be a more blended approach between print & digital / what does the future look like for you guys?

What trends are you excited about?

What are your sources of information and inspiration from? How do you ensure you are not in a filter bubble in terms of ideas & opinions?