It is quite clearly Sinn Fein that are pressing for a referendum in Ireland on the ratification of the new St. Andrews Agreement, but is it really necessary? In 1998, a referendum supporting the Good Friday Agreement passed, making changes to Articles 2 and 3 of Bureacht na hÉireann (which claimed authority over the entire [...]
An article of mine from today’s Sunday Business Post: A Dublin design agency has stopped working for RTE, citing creative differences over some of the adverts produced by the broadcaster. Last week Rothco quit the RTE contract that it was awarded jointly with another media buying agency, Vizeum, earlier this year. The firms were awarded [...]
Supplimentary article from today’s Sunday Business Post: Thursday, October 5: Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary calls an early-morning press conference to announce the company’s approach bid for Aer Lingus. Ryanair’s offer values Aer Lingus at around €1.48 billion – €2.80 a share – 60c above the flotation price. At the company’s press conference, it is [...]
While flicking through the promotional magazine for this weekends Hey! Big Spender expo being held in the RDS (organised by the Sunday Business Post, iQuest and Mary Rafferty PR) I was a little taken aback when I spotted the following amongst the property and investment exhibitors: In the booklet, each exhibitor is given a paragraph-long [...]
We Irish politicos have been lucky in recent times; just as the steam seems to have escaped from the Bertie/Loan saga once and for all we have another major political debate to turn our attentions to, the restoration of devolution to Northern Ireland. Of course while the opposition in the Dáil were careful enough to [...]
… No, it’s just his lane. Back from London as of last night and still feeling the effects of the late nights, early mornings, finance-ese overdose as well as the constant state of transportation I seemed to be in… In fact, due to the lateness of my arrival in London on Sunday night my total [...]
I had planned on going to the blog conference today. I had registered my interest as soon as it was possible (I had also registered my disgust with Damien for having the conference on a Saturday!) and I was even set to suggest I attend in some kind of official capacity for the Business Post, [...]
An article of mine from today’s Sunday Business Post: With conventional production costs and advertising rates rising, a campaign by ad agency Chemistry showcasing a fake development plan for Dublin Port has highlighted the power of viral advertising. This is the term used for advertising that relies on consumers passing the ad to each other [...]
An article of mine from today’s Sunday Business Post: Wine brand Carmen is using Ireland as a launch pad for its rebrand and a new marketing campaign that revolves around the ‘‘passion’’ of the product. Carmen, which is distributed and marketing in Ireland by Edward Dillon & Co, is the second-best-selling Chilean wine on the [...]
An article of mine from the Agenda section of today’s Sunday Business Post: A sharp, heavy pain strikes you in your chest, stopping you in your tracks. It makes breathing more difficult but just as you start to worry about what is wrong, it disappears again. People of all ages will have experienced something like [...]
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