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There’s a new kid in town!

Published on November 21, 2012 by in Fashion

The bright and the beautiful headed Northside last night to the launch party of Style Club North Earl Street.  This is the third Style Club which is the brainchild of Peter Mark* co-founder Mark Keaveney and is the fiercest, funkiest salon around for anyone looking to do something a bit different with their tresses! As the Christmas party season ramps up a gear, you’ll find team Pembroke indulging in some Style Club magic as we’re transformed from office lovelies to party divas – whether we’ll manage to get the lads to take a chance on some high shine pop colour

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PR Job Needed to Give New York Back its Shine Post Sandy

Published on November 20, 2012 by in Business, Current Affairs

Barack Obama will need to start a very proactive comms outreach and show he means business after his re-election which followed a bitterly divisive and very expensive campaign. With New York recovering for Hurricane Sandy, the Big Apple must also clean up its mess, and it is not just the street debris and attack on its complex infrastructure I am talking about. New York must also convince the world that it is open for business and spend thrift tourism. In what must have been a really unfortunate coincidence, as explained by Danny Rogers of PR Week, Sandy struck just as

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Fundamentals Key to Teeling’s Success

Published on November 20, 2012 by in Business, In The Papers Today

Entrepreneurship is fuelled by risk and the formula for success is not as simple as calculating the cost of failure versus that of the potential reward and ending up in the plus column. John Teeling has been navigating this precarious equation for over 40 years and although he may have his doubters, there is no doubting his belief in long-term investment and his recent track record. Last week, the Teeling chaired Petrel Resources* announced a potential 1 billion barrel discovery in the Porcupine Basin in the Atlantic Ocean offshore Ireland. Petrel had been exploring for oil offshore Ireland 20 years

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Jimmy’s winning matches…. And sport psychology is playing a major role in how he’s doing it.

Published on November 20, 2012 by in Current Affairs, Lifestyle, Sport

Jim McGuinness has been paid the ultimate compliment by being recognised by another sport, in another country, for another role as a result of the success he’s had with Donegal.  Celtic clearly took a lot of notice of the skill set the Glenties man has that catapulted Donegal to All Ireland success. In just two years Jim McGuiness transformed a team that, in 2010 prior to him taking the reigns, had gone out in the early qualifier rounds. I believe that Jim McGuinness’s qualification and experience with sport psychology had a massive amount to do with the success he brought

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The Journey!

Published on November 16, 2012 by in Advertising, Entertainment, Media, Video of the Day

It’s perhaps a little too early for Christmas ads but when I came across this one it would have been rude not to share! The new John Lewis Christmas TV ad celebrates the extra mile we all go to at Christmas to find the perfect gift. Ok, yes you’re watching a snowman’s journey but while you travel with him and listen to the stunning music you’re sure to be touched by it. The ad is called ‘The Journey’, it opens in a family’s snow-covered garden, with children making a snowman and snowwoman. When the snowman has mysteriously disappeared the next

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Fade Street Social – A Review!

Published on November 13, 2012 by in Current Affairs, Entertainment, Lifestyle

This may well be a new departure for me! A blog that has nothing to do with sport or the business of sport and sponsorship or indeed with the Irish language…instead a blog about food and in particular a recent visit to a rather high profile restaurant! Will it be a once off foodie blog or will this be the first of many?   Sure we’ll give it a shot and see where it goes!   Fade Street Social…a review!   So it’s here. After much legal wrangling the doors of Dylan McGrath’s latest venture have finally opened and judging

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Sports Pic of the Day: Tactical Dilemma

Published on November 13, 2012 by in Sports Pic of the Day

In what is an unglamorous international fixture between Ireland and Greece the media were no doubt struggling to fill column inches around a fixture that was never going to capture the sporting public’s attention to any  extent. Thankfully for them first assistant manager Marco Tardelli steps forward and states that 2012 was a fantastic year for Ireland and now Glenn Whelan has spoken at his frustration of being overrun in midfield as opposing teams easily overcome Ireland’s rigid 4-4-2 formation. Today’s picture is taken from the Irish Examiner and you can read the full article about Whelan here.  

 
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Pic of the Day: Bravery Awards

Published on November 13, 2012 by in Pic of the Day

Pictured in today’s Irish Examiner is Garda Brian Dromey with his sons Sean, Paul, Conor, Gerard and David after he received his Scott Medal at Templemore Garda College for facing down a gunman. Every so often we are reminded the vital, and often dangerous, work the Garda Síochána undertake on a daily basis. These awards go a long way to not only recognizing the bravery of the winners but also draw the public’s attention to their actions that often don’t grab the headlines.  

 
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Infographic of the Day: How People Spend Their Time Online

Published on November 12, 2012 by in Social Media

The latest infographic on how we spend our time online is out, which I first spotted on mindjumpers.com, and it makes for fascinating reading. Of no surprise social media and search dominate how people spend their time online, 22% and 21% respectively. Despite all the talk about the future of Facebook it is the site that still dominates peoples’ time online, 7 hours and 45 minutes per month. Certainly no one is giving up on it just yet. Interestingly only 5% of time is spent on online shopping. E-commerce was heralded as the future of shopping and as the death knell

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Byrne’s Comments May Sharpen Focus of Tourism Drive

Published on November 12, 2012 by in Current Affairs, Media

Gabriel Byrne’s comments on the government backed Gathering, a joint initiative of Failte Ireland and Tourism Ireland, has caused a national debate and media storm. There are those who see it as a nail in the coffin before the year has started and an unwelcome PR disaster but I for one think the comments are a positive development. Let me start by saying that our company represents several tourism related clients, so we have no interest in anything but positive news when it comes to the hospitality and travel trade. However, it must be added that there is confusion as to what

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