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Energia AIL awards to be streamed live

With the Covid-19 lockdown, the 2019/20 Energia All Ireland League season ended in March. The season may not have been completed but the players, clubs, volunteers and fans aim to celebrate what was an exciting few months of domestic rugby. For the first time in history, this year’s annual Energia All Ireland League Rugby Awards […]

Facebook Ireland and Core have teamed up to provide Irish SMEs with a free series of weekly webinar sessions on online training and support. ‘Getting to know your online customers’ is aimed at helping businesses reach, connect and engage with customers online with expert practical advice on what people are doing online and how best […]

Irish shoppers spent €371 million on groceries during the week ending April 12, the highest sales week of the year so far and an increase of 14 per cent compared to the same week ending on Easter Sunday in 2019, data from Nielsen indicates. Moreover, sales of alcohol reached €49.3m, an increase of 44 per […]

DMG Media Ireland has launched a €1 million advertising fund for small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) hit by the fall-out from the Covid-19 pandemic. The fund, ‘DMG Media Shop Ireland’, is the largest private-sector support to small firms and it will provide 200 small businesses with an advertising package worth €5,000 each. It is targeted […]

Alone, the organisation which supports older people, have teamed up with Gavin James and ad agency Bonfire to release the ‘Now more than ever’ campaign, a series of short videos on loneliness featuring Gavin James’s music, which call on members of the public to stay in touch with the older people they know who may […]

An Post and IAPI have made the decision to postpone the Direct Challenge until next year. IAPI CEO Charley Stoney said that while it was a pity, it was the right call to make. A key goal of the Direct Challenge is to send some of Ireland’s best creative talent to experience the full week […]

While this pandemic is bad and unprecedented for most of us, it pales in comparison to what our ancestors had to endure. In his book, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress, Harvard psychologist Dr Steven Pinker makes the case, supported by data, that the world is much better now than at […]

Virgin Media Television (VMTV) managing director Pat Kiely is to leave the business in July, the broadcaster has confirmed in a media statement. Kiely has been with the broadcaster, formerly TV3, for 22 years. Previously commercial director, he replaced David McRedmond, now An Post CEO, following Virgin’s acquisition of the broadcaster in 2015. He planned […]

PML Group marketing director Colum Harmon reports on the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic for out of home (OOH) in Ireland, both short term and further into the future Committing thoughts to paper at this time is no doubt a dubious endeavour but as this ever-evolving crisis plays out, it strikes me that at least […]

A survey by Core shows that that 70 per cent of Irish people believe that the Covid-19 outbreak will last beyond September and into spring 2021. The research results comes four weeks since the closure of schools and offers insight into how people are coping during the public health emergency and their thoughts on how […]

In the Company of Huskies and agency client Nissan Ireland are collaborating to develop the Nissan Active Challenge. The online initiative aims to keep families active while raising funds for the Feed the Heroes campaign to support frontline workers with essential and nutritious meals during the current Covid-19 coronavirus crisis. Former footballer Niall Quinn, Republic […]

Almost 70 per cent of members of the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) have seen a significant decrease in revenue since the Covid-19 restrictions began, with 29 per cent reporting a moderate drop and just two per cent moderate growth. The survey’s topline results show 82 per cent of IAB members have cut back on salaries […]

Gangs of London is an action drama which tells the story of how Britain’s capital was torn apart by the power struggles of the international gangs that control it and the sudden power vacuum created when the ruthless boss of London’s most powerful crime family is assassinated. For 20 years, Finn Wallace (Colm Meaney) was […]