Independent House on Talbot Street now feels more like a technology company, with swish furniture and bright screens highlighting breaking stories, compared to its origins as Ireland’s biggest newspaper publisher. Now owned by European media group Mediahuis, the paint-peeling gritty feeling that pervaded the building in the controversy-strewn Leslie Buckley era is no longer there.  That’s not to say Mediahuis isn’t facing its challenges. Like all media around the world, it is under pressure to cut costs and shift resources from old to new ways of doing things.  In January, it announced plans to cut 10 per cent of its…