Sarah Deeny is client service director at In the Company of Huskies. She first fell in love with advertising as an AE in O’Connor O’Sullivan and now has over 20 years’ experience in agencies such as Arks, Cawley Nea\TBWA and BBDO Dublin. Her clients down the years have included Guinness, Heinz, HSE, IDA and, more recently, Allianz Ireland and Londis. Her experience also includes client side stints at Brown Thomas, Nokia and Axa Insurance.
01 What was your earliest ambition?
Getting out of playing football with my brothers
02 It’s our round, what are you having?
A glass of red
03 Social media platform of choice?
04 A mentor or someone that inspired you?
Brian Swords at TBWA – the first proper strategic suit with whom I worked
05 If you could be born into another time and place, where and when would that be?
1960’s Haight Ashbury
06 Favourite writers?
Paul Auster, Isabelle Allende
07 A film you’d watch again tonight?
Cinema Paradiso
08 Is there an unsung hero you’d like to thank?
My grandfather, Dr James Deeny, who, as chief medical officer in the 1940’s, closed down the Beesborough House mother and child home when he witnessed the appalling conditions there
09 Something that no longer happens that you miss?
Saturday afternoons meeting school friends on Grafton Street, drinking coffee, chatting about boys, window shopping and getting the bus home in time for dinner
10 Desert Island pet, dog or cat?
Probably a cat, but I’m not too bothered
11 Favourite ad?
ESB ‘Coming Home’ from the ‘80’s gets me every time
12 Are you an early adopter? What’s new?
Not any more, I’m far too busy keeping up
13 A brand to which you feel some loyalty?
Nespresso
14 Someone you might be starstruck to meet?
Dolly Parton
15 Something that recently brought a tear to your eye?
My 10-year-old daughter’s self-belief
16 Something that recently got your goat?
Random homophobia from people who should know better
17 What would be your fantasy act of heroism?
Anything that involves saving a child
18 You’ve won the Euromillions and disappeared, where might we find you?
In my Eileen Gray-inspired home by the sea
19 Someone or something that strikes you as beautiful
My Eileen Gray-inspired home by the sea
20 ‘Here lies Sarah Deeny’. Complete your epitaph…
She lived fully
