The Institute of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland (IAPI) has added two new members to its executive team. Kate Goldsmith (right) joins as awards and performance director and Sophie Carey as communications and project manager. Goldsmith’s newly-created role will span the overall planning, creation and delivery of IAPI awards programmes, membership growth and initiatives, including the […]
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Aisling O’Sullivan Starcom’s new deputy MD
Core has announced that Aisling O’Sullivan has been made deputy managing director of Starcom. She has been with the agency since 2016, worked as business director for two years and served as a board director for over five years. With over 14 years experience in marketing and media, she previously worked in digital planning, buying […]
PR agency &Smyth hires Hazel Dobbyn
&Smyth, the agency founded by Gemma Smyth (pictured left) in 2013, has hired former Bord Iascaigh Mhara head of communications Hazel Dobbyn as senior director, while Mia Iversen joins as account executive. For the last five years, Dobbyn has managed her own PR consultancy, Narrate PR, servicing clients in food, health, retail, property, tech and […]
Stoney to leave IAPI for European role
Charley Stoney has resigned as chief executive of the Institute of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland (IAPI) to become CEO of the European Association of Communications Agencies (EACA). Stoney will advocate at EU level on behalf of EACA member agencies, promote best and fair business practice, and ensure that the association remains relevant and beneficial to […]
Rea succeeds Carmody in running Edelman
Edelman Ireland has appointed Darragh Rea as the PR agency’s chief executive and general manager. Rea, previously managing director of Edelman’s brand, digital and creative, will oversee the business based in Dublin after Joe Carmody took up the role as chief operating officer (COO) with Edelman UK last month. Rea assume his new position effective […]
Kilduff to head up Love Irish Food
Conor Kilduff is set to replace Kieran Rumley as executive director of Love Irish Food, the representative body for Irish-manufactured food and drink producers, next month. Kilduff was managing director and vice president of customer development at Unilever Ireland and sales and marketing director at Keelings. Rumley, who took on the role at Love Irish […]
O’Donnell rejoins Heneghan as account director
Aoife O’Donnell has rejoined PR agency Heneghan as account director. She previously worked with the Ballsbridge agency for over 15 years. She left to head up marketing communications at the international healthcare brand Affidea, formerly Euromedic Ireland. She later started her own PR business, Vital Communications, specialising in servicing clients in healthcare, corporate, consumer and […]
Walls to head up National Dairy Council
Emma Walls, commercial director of Offaly-based yogurt producer Glenisk, has been confirmed as the new chief executive officer (CEO) of the National Dairy Council (NDC). She replaces Zoe Kavanagh who was 13 years in the job and is now CEO at Repak. Walls began her career in PR at Ogilvy’s Wilson Hartnell (WH) agency. She […]
Fanning to run for Labour in election
Market researcher Martha Fanning has been selected by Labour to be a candidate in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown constituency in the forthcoming general election. She has been a local councillor for Labour in the Blackrock area since 2020 and a party member since her teens, following in the footsteps of her parents, Kaye and John. She […]
Reilly to head up Bauer’s group marketing
Róisín Reilly has been promoted to the newly created role of group marketing director at Bauer Media Audio Ireland. The promotion is one of a number of changes to the company’s leadership team. Eric Moylan becomes managing editor of Newstalk in place of Patricia Monahan who recently moved to RTÉ. Celine McNamara has been appointed […]
Hands lands global media role at Tourism Ireland
Tourism Ireland has announced the appointment of Maxine Hands as its new head of global media and digital. Hands has over 20 years experience as a media agency executive. Based in the organisation’s Dublin office, she will be responsible for leading the global media and digital team, as well as overseeing worldwide media strategy, consumer […]
ASA makes three new board appointments
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), the independent advertising self-regulatory body responsible for promoting, regulating and enforcing standards of marketing communications in Ireland, has appointed Ann Marie Lenihan, Clare Mulcahy, and Michael O’Keeffe to its board. Mulcahy and O’Keeffe bring an independent, non-industry perspectives that will enhance its mission to ‘foster trust in advertising for all’. […]
Donnellan earns wider role at Sky
Last year’s winner of the Marketer of the Year award Caroline Donnellan has expanded her role as Sky Ireland’s director of marketing and brand by taking responsibility for the company’s Now streaming service. Donnellan led several of Sky’s major campaigns, including the launches of Sky Glass and Sky Stream, as well as the ‘Outbelieve’ campaign […]
