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Glenilen backs Alone in helping elderly

Glenilen Farm, a family-run dairy owned and managed by husband and wife Alan and Valerie Kingston in Drimoleague, Co Cork, has partnered with Alone, the charity which supports older people to age at home, in a series of online videos which encourage younger people to ask a few simple questions to older members in their […]

Siobhán Masterson, head of corporate affairs for Ireland’s largest lobby group, Ibec, will speak at the Public Relations Institute of Ireland (PRII) conference next month. Masterson leads the team at Ibec responsible for internal and external communications, media, strategic campaigns and lobbying, reputation management and corporate sustainability. At the conference, entitled ’20:20 Vision – PR […]

Aoife Hofler has joined Javelin as director of media. She joins from GroupM’s Wavemaker where she was deputy managing director since May 2016. She was previously business director at MEC and worked with Vizeum, in London as account director and chief liaison officer and in Dublin as an account manager on Kerry Foods, Meteor, Ikea […]

Zurich has a new digital out of home (DOOH) campaign with dynamic capabilities to expand its ‘Be Future Ready’ offer. Weather and temperature triggers were integrated into PML Group’s Liveposter platform with copy for different weather conditions. The copy changes when the temperature rises above 15 degrees, below 10 degrees or whether it is sunny […]

Almost two thirds of people in Northern Ireland believe the economy will suffer as a result of Brexit, a study by Core marketing communications shows. The NI Brexit Barometer research measures how the six counties in Ulster feel towards Brexit and how it will impact their lives. The study shows 58 per cent are pessimistic […]

Former Ireland and Munster rugby player Paul O’Connell fronts a new Aldi TV ad for the German discounter’s official licensed Rugby World Cup (RWC) merchandise. A checkout assistant, played by Irish actress Amy Coleman, assists O’Connell as he puts through his shopping but the starstruck girl tells a colleague she has just served “Ronan O’Gara”. […]

Frankie Carty is the new head of agency business at Virgin Media Solutions (VMS) with responsibility for strategic leadership, management and development of agency trading. Carty joins from Core, where he was director of Core Investment, headed up by Eddie O’Mahony. Gavan Byrne continues as head of trading, with four other appointments confirmed by VMS. […]

O’Donnells hand cooked crisps has signed up as sponsor of Virgin Media Television’s new series of The Restaurant. The reality show returns with six new celebrities putting on the head chef uniform and taking on the challenge to create a menu to impress Marco Pierre White and Rachel Allen. First up at 9pm tonight is […]

Coca-Cola remains in number one position in Ireland’s list of the top 100 grocery brands produced by Checkout magazine using Nielsen data. While Coke continues to lead the top 100 for the 15th year in a row, Brennans bread (third), Avonmore (fourth), and Tayto (sixth) all make the top 10, indicating the loyalty Irish consumers […]

A group of 12 staff at marketing communications company Core will again head off to spend a week with Mama Leah, Patricia and the children in Terrys orphanage in Kenya. Over the past year, the money Core raised helped build new sheds and a proper feeding and milking area for the cows that were bought. […]

Aedhmar Hynes has been confirmed as a speaker for the PRII ’20:20 Vision’ annual conference. Hynes is ranked among the top 50 most influential global communications professionals over recent years. Most recently, she was the CEO of Text 100, the information technology specialist agency with 22 offices in Europe, North America and Asia. Hynes has […]

Tom Gannon and Niall McGrath, the former Richmond Marketing duo who put the Fulfil protein bar on the map, are rolling out Cali Cali, a new California-style, healthy food snack. Co-founding with TV chef Donal Skehan, Cali Cali will be officially launched at a pop-up in the brand’s financial partner Permanent TSB’s HQ on Dublin’s […]

To mark the launch of Jacob’s Club Chunky, Valeo Foods is saluting Ireland’s social clubs with a new ad and activations campaign. Valeo worked with Havas in creating a radio jingle with members of the Booka Brass band, Oisín Walsh Peelo of Hudson Taylor and Irish music recording veteran Ben Rawlins – all backed up […]