The MindField festival of talk, thoughts and more will be held in Dublin’s Merrion Square gardens from April 29 to May Day. Capitalism, poetry, Iceland, photography, butterflies, fashion and foreign policy are some of the topics that will feature in over 62 shows on four stages over the three days. Participants include Ryan Tubridy, Simon […]
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Michael Palin for NCH talk
British actor and writer Michael Palin will give a talk in the National Concert Hall on May 25 as part of this year’s Dublin Writers Festival. Palin will look back over his career from his earliest days as a member of Monty Python to his Phileas Fogg recreated fictional journeys in the BBC series Around […]
Media conference for Croke Park
A conference aimed at charting the transformation of media will be held in Croke Park in early May. Mediacontact.ie has lined up 20 international speakers and three workshops for the Mash 2011 theme ‘Exploding media’. The debate will identity key trends, technologies and topics shaping the future mediascape. Speakers from overseas include John Mulholland, editor […]
02 launches free webinars
O2 has announced a series of free webinars aimed at its SME businesses customers to help them build and grow their companies. The first business ‘Ideascast’ webinar will be an introduction on how SMEs can use digital marketing and is presented by Arabella Judd (pictured) from Dublin digital agency, Radical. The first webinar takes place […]
Blaney to address ageing forum
McCann Erickson boss Orlaith Blaney, Gerard O’Neill of Amárach Consulting and Dick Stroud, author of the 50-Plus Market, will speak at the Business of Ageing conference in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham on March 9th. In Ireland, those over 65 have €6.6 billion in wealth and revenues of over €3 trillion. Blaney and O’Neill will provide […]
Josh Howie for Laughter Lounge
Josh Howie is the headline act at the Laughter Lounge comedy venue in Dublin from January 27th-29th. Howie is the son of PR doyenne Lynne Franks, who was the inspiration for Joanna Lumley’s Patsy character in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous. Howie is an ex-public schoolboy, raised as a Buddhist who trained as a rabbi […]
Foodies to descend on RDS
Thousands of food and wine enthusiasts are expected to turn up at one of the top gastronomical events of the year as some of the country’s top chefs demonstrate their favourite festive recipes at the Food & Wine Christmas Show in the RDS Main Hall starting today and running all weekend. Chef Kevin Thornton, right, […]
Alastair Campbell for society lunch
Alastair Campbell, the former British government press secretary and close confidant of Tony Blair, will be the guest speaker at the Marketing Society Christmas lunch in the Shelbourne hotel on Thursday, December 16th. Journalist, author and broadcaster, the often controversial Campbell quit journalism in 1994 to work for Labour. He was an advisor and close […]
UK social media expert for Dublin
British social media guru Will McInnes will give a talk on how to build a social media campaign at a masterclass in Dublin on July 22nd. The event is organised by Mediacontact.ie. A marketer by training, his clients at NixonMcInnes includes BMW, Boots, Channel 4, Chelsea FC, Cisco, HSBC, Oxfam and Zurich. McInnes is on […]
Trevor Beattie to chair Sharks jury
Renowned British adman Trevor Beattie is to chair this year’s Sharks jury at the festival in Kinsale in the second week of September, festival manager Tanya Cawley has confirmed. A founding director of Beattie McGuinness Bungay, his work includes Wonderbra, Fcuk, Sony PlayStation and the Labour Party. There will be two creative speaking events this […]
Sponsors sought for Paul McGrath charity golf classic
A call has gone out for sponsors to support the annual Paul McGrath charity golf classic in aid of Cystic Fibrosis Association of Ireland (CFAI) which will be played at Arklow Golf Club in Co Wicklow on Friday, July 16th. Among the celebrities due to take part are two of McGrath’s former teammates, Ronnie Whelan […]
Scribes in write takeover of Dalkey
RTE broadcaster Des Cahill will be part of a debate on the role of football in culture at the first annual Dalkey Book Festival which takes place the weekend after next at various venues in the Dublin seaside town South county Dublin will be awash with literary talent the weekend after next when the first […]
Irish no-show at Heineken final costly
The failure of an Irish rugby club to reach the Heineken Cup final in Paris two weeks from tomorrow looks set to cost the Irish travel industry over €100,000. As both Leinster and Munster did not progress from the semi final stage of the pan-European competition, savvy travel agents have had to release hotels rooms […]
