AIB has again being chosen as the top marketing team at the Marketing Institute’e All Ireland Marketing (AIMs) awards presented at a gala dinner attended by Ireland’s top marketers in the Clayton Hotel event. The event saw the AIB team, headed by Mark Doyle (above), take the spot ahead of Just Eat, Littlewoods, One4All and […]
ArchiveMay, 2018
Cinema visits in Ireland highest per head in EU
Irish people’s love affair with the cinema shows no signs of abating. Ireland has the highest per capita visits to the cinema in the EU at 3.4 compared to the union average of 1.7. Most cinema goers travel 9.2 kilometres to see a movie on the big screen and spend €16.81 while there, cinema sales house […]
Hidden Hearing backs new Daniel O’Donnell show
Hidden Hearing is sponsoring the new series of Daniel and Majella O’Donnell’s B&B Roadtrip TV series on RTE 1. Viewers can follow the duo as they negotiate the winding roads of Ireland and experience some treasures that only locals know best. The O’Donnells have no idea where they are headed, as the B&B owners take control of […]
Nils Leonard headlines Sharks speakers
With entries now open for this year’s Sharks in Kinsale, this year’s festival will be headlined by Uncommon founder Nils Leonard (above) and agency veteran Neil Dawson, with more announcements to come. Entries for the ad awards, short film and music video can be entered up until this year’s deadline of September 7, festival director […]
Bank of Ireland hosts event to help fight cancer
By 2020, one in two Irish people will get a cancer diagnosis in life. Sometimes stats like this don’t mean much to us until someone we know gets cancer. Last month, Conor O’Riordan, creative director at Bank of Ireland for the Oliver agency, died from bone cancer. He was 41. He left a wife, Jane, and […]
20 Questions with Sallyanne Parker-Clarke, l’Ecrivain
Sallyanne Parker-Clarke is co-owner of the Michelin star l’Ecrivain restaurant in Dublin with her chef husband, Derry. She modelled professionally and worked in the rag trade and as a DJ on a pirate radio station. She studied marketing, has written two books and is a columnist for the Irish Daily Mail. She’s a regular panellist […]
NewBrands adds campaign category to awards
NewsBrands Ireland has added a campaign of the year category to its annual journalism awards presented in November and sponsored by the National Lottery. The new category has been added to the awards which will showcase the valuable role newspapers play in affecting positive change in society through the use of powerful words and reporting. The […]
Slattery honoured as a PRII life fellow member
Padraig Slattery, founder of Slattery PR and chairman of Teneo PSG, has been awarded the honour of life fellow membership of the Public Relations Institute of Ireland (PRII). Life fellowship is the highest accolade the institute can bestow on a member. Slattery has grown successful businesses in PR and corporate hospitality for over three decades. […]
DMG announces three new commercial recruits
DMG Media Ireland, whose titles include the Irish Daily Mail, Irish Mail on Sunday and EVOKE.ie and Extra.ie, has announced three new appointments in its sales department. Conor Quinn joins the team from i-Believe where he was sales director, working on in-app and digital. He was also with Mirror Media Ireland as sales director, Carzone […]
Stoney to replace Banotti as IAPI chief executive
Alternatives group managing director Charley Stoney has been appointed as chief executive of the Institute of Advertising Practitioners (IAPI) in place of Tania Banotti, who left the agency representative body recently to head up Creative Ireland. Stoney has wide experience in marketing services, having held senior agency roles in field marketing, promotions and DM. Before […]
Tesco’s Torpey takes on marketing role at RTE
Nora Torpey has joined RTÉ as head of marketing and consumer communications. She will take up the role on June 7, reporting to Adrian Lynch, director audiences, channels and marketing. Most recently, she spent four years with Tesco Ireland as head of brand and communications, where she had the responsibility for defining the UK multiple’s strategy. […]
Around 200,000 to support Darkness Into Light
What started out as a walk involving 400 participants in Dublin’s Phoenix Park in 2009 has grown to become a major international charity event, with 180,000 people signing up last year. Pieta House’s Darkness Into Light aims to end the stigma around self-harm and suicide by providing vital services. Since Pieta House opened, 35,000 people […]
Shay Healy to be saluted for life achievements
Broadcaster, producer and songwriter Shay Healy will be honoured by Ireland’s entertainment industry later this month when he is presented with a lifetime achievement award by the Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) at the annual IFTA awards. Healy is being saluted for his outstanding work stretching over 55 years in Irish TV and entertainment. […]
