Congrats to one of Ireland’s best admen and one of the most colourful guys in Irish business - Stuart Fogarty of AFA O’Meara. This week the news of his merger with McConnell’s was confirmed:
The enlarged group will have a turnover of €89m, the company announced yesterday, and will be known as The McConnell Group.
The deal […]
Every blogger I’ve ever had more than a ten-minute conversation with eventually comes around to a confession of their deepest, darkest desire. For love of the game, eventually, doesn’t pay the bills. It’s why some of the island of Ireland’s best bloggers have, from time to time, had to scale back to focus on the […]
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Damien Mulley posted an unimpeachably comprehensive look at the hyper-targeting ad programme that Facebook’s exponentially growing popularity - 167,000 Irish users and growing, according to my former colleague - is making possible. For advertisers it seems like a dream come true.
Maybe more of a nightmare for the advertisees, however.
Earlier this week privacy advocates started to […]
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Harry McGee of the Irish Examiner reports that Fine Gael are poised to launch a poster campaign that uses the image of a happy looking PD leader, Tainaste and Minister for Justice Michael McDowell alongside statistics about rising levels of reported crime.
Cian over at Irish Election calls it “negative campaigning” - anticipating I’m sure the […]
Tags: politics
Publius is a column covering media and marketing in all of its glory and shame in the Business section of the Sunday Tribune, which I edit, as some of you may know. It’s gotten some good responses from the advertising and PR industries - and provoked the ire of a few people…Irish Times wunderkind […]
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