This year’s Cat Laughs comedy festival in Kilkenny over the June holiday weekend will be sponsored by Sky it was confirmed at a launch in the Groucho Club in London last night. Described by the Guardian newspaper as “the best little comedy festival in the world”, Cat Laughs is now in its 19th year. The […]
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Toscani to talk at Offset
Oliviero Toscani, the photographer and designer best known for his United Colors of Benetton ads, will address the Offset creative event in Dublin next weekend. Toscani made headlines worldwide for his provocative images for the Italian clothing brand from 1982 to 2000. The Benetton campaign featured a priest and nun kissing, a man dying of […]
SPAR launches fitness run
Today FM presenter Ray D’Arcy, Geoff Lyons, group marketing manager, Independent Newspapers and Suzanne Weldon, marketing and communications director, BWG Foods, owners and operators of the SPAR franchise in Ireland, at the launch of ‘Join SPAR and Ray for 5k’, taking place in Killarney, Clonmel, Westport, Dundalk and Dublin from Monday to Friday next week. […]
Festival tourists to spend €50m
Over 120,000 overseas visitors will spend at least €50m during the St Patrick’s Festival, the Dublin Chamber of Commerce says. Over 800,000 people are due to take part in this year’s festivities, which run until next Monday. Dublin Chamber chief executive Gina Quin says the festival is the capital’s flagship annual event and it looks […]
SuperValu in festival mood
SuperValu has signed up as title sponsor of the Big Day Out in tandem with the St. Patrick’s Festival. The Musgrave brand, which had €2.1 billion in sales last year, invests €4.5 million in community events. SuperValu has supported Tidy Towns for 22 years and became title sponsor two years ago. The chain has supported […]
Spin set for Hollywood
Dublin music station Spin 1038 has been nominated for most innovative international radio station at the Worldwide Radio Summit Awards being staged in Los Angeles at the start of May. The event is described as the yearly gathering of “the most forward thinking minds in radio, digital/social and music.” Spin 1038 is up against some big […]
Masterson to address DCU seminar
Hireland.ie co-founder and former McConnells account director Lucy Masterson is among the speakers who will address a conference on business start ups and social enterprise in DCU next Tuesday. Targeted at entrepreneurs and small business owners, Get Started 2013 will comprise expert presentations and panel discussions with the hope of offering ideas, inspiration and support […]
An Post hosts data protection talk
An Post will host a morning seminar on best practice data protection next week. The company’s regulatory solicitor Linda Ni Chualladh (above) will talk about all things data protection in an hour, with advice on how to maximise business opportunities. At An Post, Ni Chualladh advises on postal regulatory law, competition law, financial service law […]
Mrs Moneypenny for society lunch
British newspaper columnist and businesswoman Mrs Moneypenny is the guest speaker at the Marketing Society Christmas lunch. A writer with the FT, Mrs Moneypenny runs a business in London, outsources her children to various schools and has been married to a golf-obsessed Australian for over 20 years. She has starred in Channel 4’s SuperScrimpers consumer […]
Carat to debate future of TV
Redefining TV is the topic of an industry seminar to be hosted by Carat in the Aviva Stadium soon. While traditional TV viewing still dominates the sitting room in Irish homes, content is increasingly made available across multiple platforms. There is a need to explore the challenges facing broadcasters and advertisers. The seminar, which will […]
Speakers named for MII conference
Brand Ireland is the theme of the Marketing Institute’s 33rd national marketing conference being held in the Four Seasons hotel on November 7. The conference will be chaired by Newstalk’s Shane Coleman (centre) pictured above with Geoff Lyons, Irish Independent and Tom Trainor, Marketing Institute. Speakers include Lorraine Twohill, Google; Oliver Loomes, Diageo; Tom Adams, […]
Top British trumpeter for NCH
Award-winning British trumpeter Alison Balsom will perform at the National Concert Hall as part of next month’s international concert series. Balsom won female artist of the year for the second time at last year’s Classic Brit Awards 2011. Balsom will perform a programme of works by Haydn, Elgar and Seraph for trumpet and strings by […]
Arthur has his day but marketers playing festive card not new
Today is Arthur’s Day, a marketing stunt which Diageo rolled out a few years ago to mark the 250th anniversary of the Guinness Brewery in Dublin. A line-up of top international and home-grown acts will brew up a black storm in the capital tonight as revellers raise a glass to the man who gave the […]
