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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. […]

AIG has extended its partnerships with Dublin GAA, Dublin LFGA and Dublin camogie for another five years for an undisclosed sum. The announcement was made at Beann Eadair GAA Club in Howth as young club members joined representatives from Dublin’s four inter-county senior teams. The current AIG deal expires this coming November. By the time the […]

An Post chief executive David McRedmond has come out strongly against the referendum on the 8th Amendment campaign posters appearing on our streets, calling them “amateurish and insulting to women and men”. Speaking in a personal capacity, the former TV3 boss said the posters fly in the face of the Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland […]

Eir Sport and the Guinness PRO14 have agreed a partnership giving the broadcaster rights to every game for the next three years from next season. The deal means that for the first time in Ireland rugby fans can watch all of the tournament’s 152 games on one TV channel, with over 30 hours of rugby […]

Insurance brokers for public sector employees Cornmarket has a new brand identity which was created by Originate. The rebrand is part of a programme being undertaken by the company, with former Eir executive Lisa Kelly in charge of the revamp as Cornmarket’s head of marketing. The process was a collaboration between staff, customers and community. […]

Fyffes, which was recently acquired by Japan’s Sumitomo in a €750 million deal, has launched a new out of home (OOH), online and TV campaign developed by Simon Betson’s Insight Marketing and Mindshare, working to the fruit importer’s marketing manager, Emma Hunt-Duffy. The tagline ‘Peel Different About Bananas’ is a follow-on to ‘Fyffe Times Better’. Hunt-Duffy […]

A co-founder of the Fallon agency in London famous for creating the Cadbury’s Gorilla and Sony ‘Balls’ ad campaigns has joined Boys+Girls as non-executive chairman. Robert Senior’s appointment coincides with the agency undergoing a “refresh”, the first in its eight and half year history when it launched with a much talked about Lego table in […]

The O’Callaghan Collection of hotels has signed up as sponsor of the Guinness PRO14 finals. This year’s series ends in the Aviva Stadium on May 26 where the champions will be crowned after a season that has seen what was the Pro12 championship add two teams from South Africa – the Southern Kings from Port […]

In recent days, media personalities brandishing toilet rolls in parts of Dublin have been urging people to ‘Give a Sh*t’. It is the culmination of a two-month-long ad campaign by the Marie Keating Foundation to raise awareness about bowel cancer. The campaign, created by JWT Folk, urges people aged 60 to 69 to “Give a […]

With just one month to go until the new General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) come into effect, the Digital Marketing Institute (DMI), which sets standards for digital marketing education and practices, has said that marketers must take more responsibility when it comes to companies preparing for, and upholding, GDPR compliant practices. Forrester Research reported that […]

Chloe Barton and Ciara Brennan from AIB are the winners of the young marketers’ category in IAPI’s Cannes Young Lions competition sponsored by Core. Barton and Brennan will represent Ireland in the worldwide contest at this year’s Cannes Lions festival in the south of France in June. They will compete against marketing talent from over […]

Over 12 million kilometres have been logged with the Toyota FaceItDown app which equates to an estimated 3,799 trips around Ireland’s coastline. The Japanese carmaker and the Road Safety Authority (RSA) is calling on Irish motorists to put their phones face down while driving. Rewards include a free hot drink at Topaz ReStore or €50 […]

Michael Carey has been nominated by Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy as the new chair of the Housing Agency in place of Dr Conor Skehan. The minister has nominated Carey, who has chaired Bord Bia, as he has experience overseeing state bodies. In 2014, the then Minister for Tourism Paschal Donohoe to chair the Grow Dublin Tourism […]