After a competitive national tender process, the DDFH&B-owned agency BespokewithDirection has been retained on the Fáilte Ireland consumer PR account. Slattery Communications was the other agency in the final reckoning. The account is now under consumer marketing and as such the agency will continue to be the agency of record for all of the tourism […]
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Ryanair and Murrays part company
Ryanair has ended its relationship with PR firm Murray Consultants on an “amicable and mutually agreed basis”. Murrays has handed the low fares airline since before its stock exchange flotation in 1997. A tender process is now underway to find a replacement agency to handle the business in Ireland and the UK. In a statement […]
Duffy in tie-in with Cork agency
Gavin Duffy, media training coach, entrepreneur and part of the Dragons’ Den panel of judges on RTE 1 Television, is to work with Cork agency H+A Marketing+PR. Duffy will provide media training sessions for the agency’s client base in Munster, along with any new clients which want stand-alone media training. Aideen McGrath, director, H+A Marketing+PR, […]
WHPR to sponsor world conference
Wilson Hartnell Public Relations (WHPR) is to sponsor the second annual World Non-Profit & Social Marketing conference in Dublin next April. The seminar will bring together experts in social marketing, the behavioural sciences, health promotion, community engagement, policy development and advocacy. As well as keynotes speakers, the event will see workshops, poster sessions and an […]
It's Arthur's day at PR Awards
Arthur’s Day, the celebrations to mark 250 years of the Guinness brewery in Dublin, has won the supreme prize at this year’s Awards for Excellence in PR presented at a lunch in the Conrad Hotel yesterday. WHPR and a team headed by Sharon Murphy accepted the honour from the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Micheál Martin. […]
Ocean boss keen to acquire
Doug Baxter, founder of Interactive Ocean (IO) and Ocean PR, has said that he is actively looking at acquiring other marcom companies in a bid to broaden the business further. The IO group recently acquired Providence PR, an agency specialising in charities and consumer accounts. Providence clients included Norma Smurfit’s Irish Famine Commemoration Fund, Niall […]
PR consultant Sharon Prior dies
Public relations consultant Sharon Prior has died after a long illness fought with remarkable courage and integrity. She set up Prior Communications in 1994 to specialise in consumer PR. Prior had worked with Kennys and Grayling and was the PR and sponsorship manager for the Tennents Ireland brewer. From her earliest days in Kennys PR, then […]
Guinness coolest Irish brand in UK
Ireland rugby players Girvan Dempsey, Rory Best and Tommy Bowe at a Guinness Area 22 event Over a third of British consumers voted Guinness as the coolest Irish brand in a YouGov survey commissioned by Irish-owned, London PR agency Eulogy! Alcoholic drinks take the top four spots in the poll headed by Guinness on 36 […]
Bord Gais Energy stays put
After a review of its advertising, media buying and below the line accounts, Bord Gáis Energy has made no changes to its roster and DDFH&B Group and Mindshare have been retained. Publicis QMP and Ogilvy had also pitched for the advertising, while Carat and Mediavest were in for the media. The Irish Times reports today […]
Dublin Zoo hires new PR firm
Dublin Zoo has hired Pembroke Communications after a five-way agency pitch which included Slattery Communications, Weber Shandwick and Fleishman Hillard. WHPR handled the account for over 20 years but did not repitch. Pembroke, run by Michael O’Keeffe, will work to the zoo’s marketing manager, Veronica Chrisp. A new TV show called The Zoo starts on […]
Rugby star backs Haiti appeal
Munster and Ireland second row forward Donncha O’Callaghan has appealed for Irish people to help the the children of Haiti by providing aid to Unicef as a matter of urgency. The country was hit by an earthquake measuring seven on the Richter scale and after-shocks of up to 4.5 magnitude last Tuesday. The quake centred […]
PR firm to spread good news
Jack Murray of Mediaexpress.ie aims to try and lift some of the doom and gloom Mediaexpress.ie has announced a new initiative called ‘Good News Friday’ to take place two weeks from today. On January 22nd, Mediaexpress.ie will distribute all news releases for free. There is just one caveat: all the releases must be about something […]
Irishman's PR firm wins UK award
Adrian Brady’s Eulogy! named the UK’s PR Agency of the Year Eulogy!, the London PR consultancy founded by Irishman Adrian Brady, was named the PR Agency of the Year at an industry awards in the Grosvenor Square in London. Eulogy! competed with agencies across four categories and won the B2B category for Mortascreen deceased data […]
