Archive2019

Odgers to work on Vodafone at Carat

Carolyn Odgers is to join Carat following the recent move of the Vodafone Ireland media account to the Dentsu Aegis Network agency from GroupM’s Wavemaker. A proven planner, strategist and project manager, Odgers worked at OMD Ireland for almost nine years. Prior to that, she was in charge of strategy at Chemistry for five years. […]

The Federation of Irish Sport (FIS) has appointed Munster Rugby’s head of enterprise Enda Lynch as an independent director. FIS is the representative organisation for the National Governing Bodies of Sport (NGBs) and Local Sports Partnerships (LSPs) in Ireland. The federation’s membership comprises over 100 NGBs and LSPs from throughout the country. The announcement was […]

Musgrave-owned Frank and Honest Gourmet Coffee is to plant 3,000 native trees by Christmas. The company have teamed up with hometree to plant the native trees in Moy Hill Farm in Co Clare. The trees being planted will not be cut down or sold for the duration of the tree’s lifetime. For every reusable cup […]

Christmas FM returns to the airwaves this week with Cadbury, Coca-Cola and An Post as main sponsors. As the running of the radio station is funded by sponsorship, all donations raised by Christmas FM this year will go to Barretstown, the charity that helps seriously ill children with services which are provided to the public […]

Ireland’s international PR agency Hume Brophy has appointed former special advisor and political director to Tánaiste Simon Coveney TD, Caitríona Fitzpatrick, as senior account director in public affairs. She will provide advice to clients in Ireland and overseas and will contribute to the agency’s strategies on Brexit and other trade issues. Fitzpatrick spent 11 years […]

GroupM have announced the appointment of Jonathan Conlon as chief operating officer. With over 17 years’ industry experience, Conlon will move to the newly-created position with effect from November 25 from his current role of joint managing director at Wavemaker. Prior to this, he ran GroupM agency Maxus from its launch in Ireland in 2010. […]

In the age of influencers, social pressure and ‘group think’, In the Company of Huskies has rolled out a launch campaign for the new-style Nissan Juke urging young people to be true to themselves. The ad says trusting your instincts and not being the same as everyone else reflects both the Juke’s individuality and those […]

Business Post Media Group (BPMG) will roll out the new look Business Post print and digital versions this weekend as the newspaper goes on sale every Sunday and Monday. First published in November 1989, BPMG, owned by Enda O’Coineen’s Kilcullen Kapital Partners, includes the flagship newspaper, website, events and new data and research services. […]

Irish event agency Verve has been listed in 34th place in the The Drum’s top 100 independent agencies league. A first-time entrant, Verve competed with 10,000 other UK agencies. The agency’s founder, Ronan Traynor, said the listings is powered by The Drum’s independent agencies census, an in-depth study of UK communications companies. The census measures […]

As the dust settles on the Rugby World Cup (RWC) in Japan and the curtain drops on a decade that saw spend on sponsorship grow by 70 per cent to over €220 million this year, Vodafone Rugby and AIB GAA rank as Ireland’s stand-out sponsorships of the year and the decade respectively, sponsorship agency Onside […]

‘When It’s Club, It Lives Forever’ is the new slogan for this season’s AIB GAA Club Championship campaign across TV, radio, out of home (OOH), press, social and digital. Created by BBDO Dublin, the first wave will support the championship’s provincial finals and run until the finals in January, with a focus on the role […]

News Ireland’s Mark Tighe was voted Ireland’s top journalist at the NewsBrands Ireland Journalism Awards. Tighe was also named top news reporter and saluted for scoop of the year for his Sunday Times reports into the FAI and its former CEO, John Delaney. Staff writers, reporters, columnists and freelancers were honoured in 25 categories. Reporter, […]

The Black Friday shopping craze has been embraced by Irish consumers with many saying they are on the lookout for the best deals on offer, particularly electronic goods and fashion. Research by PML Group points to the shopping intentions of Dubliners on Black Friday. The study found that 40 per cent of Dublin adults will shop […]