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Centra Challenges The Nation To Live Well
May 18, 2016
This week announced the extension of Centra’s sponsorship of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship which will continue to 2019, in support of Centra’s ongoing Live Well programme. To mark the announcement four of the country’s best hurlers, Henry Shefflin, Austin Gleeson, Podge Collins and Seamus Hickey, lined out in CLG Na Fianna in Glasnevin. The Live Well initiative encourages healthy living, provides education and promotes activity. Through the hurling sponsorship, Centra will encourage fans the length...
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FH Dublin Leads the Way for Irish PR at Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity
March 3, 2015
FleishmanHillard, which celebrates 25 years in Ireland this year, was given due praise by Phil Thomas, CEO of the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity during his visit to Dublin this week to deliver his ‘Creativity Matters’ talk. In 2013 FleishmanHillard Dublin became the first Irish PR firm to win a Cannes Lion for their ‘P&G Proud Sponsor of Mum’ campaign. Speaking at the event Rhona Blake, MD of FH Dublin said it was in everybody’s...
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FH Dublin Wins Irish Sponsorship Award
November 17, 2014
FH Dublin Wins Irish Sponsorship Award for BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition Celebrating its 50th Anniversary In January the team from FH Dublin led by Gill Madden and supported by Maria McGrath managed the PR activities for Ireland’s prestigious BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition. Celebrating its 50th anniversary, January 2014 marked the biggest and the best exhibition in the competition’s incredible tenure and a real celebration for BT, the organisers and sponsors. That...
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Web Summit, Far From Peaking
November 5, 2014
Four short years ago the Web Summit was just the brain-child of three very young Irish entrepreneurs. Paddy Cosgrave, Daire Hickey and David Kelly can now count their event among the few "must attend" tech conferences globally as well as among the many successful startups operating out of Ireland today. In fact, Global Entrepreneurship Monitor ranks Ireland as 9th among the 28 European Union countries for entrepreneurial activity. One in 11 people in Ireland, according to the report, is involved...
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Dublin Web Summit 2014 Adores Big Data
November 5, 2014
Web Summit 2014 is bustling with high-energy start-ups full of passion for their business, all of whom are enthusiastically telling investors, potential partners and anyone that will listen about why they have the next big idea. One area that particularly stood out was the number of start-ups in the Big Data space. Big data has big potential for brands and their communications strategies. At the moment the majority of businesses struggle to understand how they can use this...
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My Voyage To The Summit
November 5, 2014
My voyage into today's Web Summit was absorbing, enriching, revelatory and absolutely terrifying... The energy and enthusiasm from everyone was invigorating. So many people were utterly engaged in their new product, app, service, system, gadget or whatever it was that they were promoting. And that was also what made my visit to the Web Summit so terrifying...What exactly is the difference between all of these companies? What separates the has beens, the might be's and...
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From World First Gold to World First Bronze…
June 18, 2013
Michael McKillop’s Paralympic Gold Medal Awarded by his Mum during London 2012 Wins Ireland’s First Ever Cannes Lion Award for PR When 1500m winner, Michael McKillop accepted his gold medal from his mum during the Paralympic Games at London 2012 it was a world first. Catherine McKillop emerging from the tunnel on that night in September 2012 was something the sporting world had never seen. P&G’s Proud Sponsor of Mums campaign made this world first...