UTV Ireland will broadcast a documentary to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Miami Showband massacre tonight at 8pm. The special report by the Ireland Live news team includes eye-witness accounts from the two surviving members of The Miami Showband, Stephen Travers and Des Lee, and looks back on the events from 1975. The massacre saw three […]
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Irish votes sought for Guinness Storehouse
Irish people have until Friday to help the Guinness Storehouse claim the ultimate travel accolade as Europe’s leading tourist attraction in the World Travel Awards. As Ireland’s first attraction to be shortlisted for the prize, the Storehouse is vying with such other historic and famous attractions as the Acropolis in Athens and London’s Buckingham Palace. Barcelona’s […]
Deadline for Bord Bia awards this Friday
Companies interested in entering this year’s Bord Bia Food & Drink Awards are reminded that submissions must in by 5pm this Friday, July 24. Entrants have to be in business for at least two fiscal years, with a minimum turnover of €100k. The awards are open to companies which produce and market products and operate […]
Insomnia to waken up UK market
Insomnia has agreed a partnership with Debenhams which sees the Irish coffee company open a number of Insomnia @ Debenhams outlets across the UK and Ireland over the coming months. The first of these has just launched at Debenhams in the Mahon Point Shopping Centre in Cork and plans are afoot to launch outlets in Rugby […]
Bord Bia launches annual food awards
Bord Bia has launched its 2015 food and drink awards. Through eight categories, the awards will recognize excellence in branding, consumer insight, digital marketing, entrepreneurship, export development, innovation, success on the home market and sustainability. Companies may apply online at www.bordbia.ie/awards and entries close at 5pm on Friday, July 24. The awards are open to […]
Media consumers show big appetite for food
Forget fashion and celebrity culture (42 per cent), sports (65 per cent) and the soaps (44 per cent), a study by Red C for Bord Bia shows that 78 per cent of consumers are interested in cooking, food and drink when it comes to consuming media. TV shows like Home Chef with Neven Maguire (25 […]
An Post returns to mobile market
An Post returns to the mobile market with the launch of Post Mobile. The move includes a range of pre-pay propositions like the ‘all-in’ data for €20 a month, designed to appeal to data consumers on the lookout for a bargain bundle. Post Mobile becomes the country’s biggest retail channel mobile phone operator, with a […]
Call made for Marketing Society nominations
The deadline for nominations for the four vacancies on the Marketing Society council is midday next Tuesday, society chairman Mark Nolan of Ignite Research has said. There are three openings on the society’s general panel, as Pat Stephenson of Boys and Girls, Leona Daly, Heineken and Gráinne O’Brien, Murray Consultants, step down. With Behaviour & […]
Fáilte Ireland in talks with agencies
Fáilte Ireland is in talks with agencies about its creative advertising and media buying services. The State body, which promotes Discover Ireland staycations – as distinct from Tourism Ireland, which promotes island of Ireland holidays to overseas visitors – currently uses DDFH&B and PHD. Among those pitching for the media are Starcom and MediaCom. At […]
Fanning to discuss lessons from Referendum
John Fanning, lecturer in branding and marketing communications at UCD Smurfit Graduate Business School and Marketing.ie columnist, will help tease out the learnings from the Marriage Equality Referendum at a Marketing Society seminar next week. The post mortem on the same-sex marriage campaign will scrutinise how the yes and no sides fared, who got bang […]
Love Hate star gives Yes side a shove
Ireland’s first ever emoji URL is being used to launch a brand new film created by Irish International and Sweet Media, in support of a Yes vote on May 22, featuring actor Laurence Kinlan, who plays Elmo in Love Hate, and available to view at www.idontknow.ie The film was written to help cement the “soft yes” […]
Javelin big winner at Smart awards
Javelin Group took centre stage at the An Post Smart Marketing Awards 2015 taking home nine prizes, including the coveted Agency of the Year. The Smithfield-based agency was honoured for campaigns it devised for Arnotts, BT Communications, Toyota, Lexus, Irish Ferries and Focus Ireland. Javelin’s Joe Dobbin, Kyla O’Kelly (above) and Ken Ivory were on […]
Murphy takes reins at Marketing Institute
Vodafone brand operations manager Paula Murphy is the new chairperson of the Marketing Institute of Ireland (MII) in place of Páraic O’Toole, chief executive of Automsoft, who remains as non-executive director. Before joining Vodafone, Murphy was group marketing director at Independent Newspapers. She was commercial manager with Superquinn and marketing manager with Kerry Foods. She joined […]
