Hunting and fishing clan leave it to the lawyersThe Watts Brothers's business on Ormond Quay thrived in the days when huntin', shootin' and fishin' were popular pastimes for…Thu Feb 03 2000 - 00:00
Heineken connects with LondonHeineken has moved the creative side of its business to London agency Partners BDDH, following the lead set by several other …Thu Feb 03 2000 - 00:00
Tragic image of heroin baby aims to end tragedyA new advertisement for Barnardo's charity caused such controversy in Britain that, just three hours before its first appearance…Thu Jan 27 2000 - 00:00
Nascent Internet advertising business marks successesMost major Irish advertising creative awards would expect to reel in hundreds of entries but, as web advertising in Ireland is…Thu Jan 20 2000 - 00:00
Benetton focuses on death rowIt's already used a bloody newborn baby, a man dying of AIDS and a dead soldier's uniform to sell its sweaters and now Benetton…Thu Jan 13 2000 - 00:00
Devil is in the detail in Ryanair price promiseIt's hard to beat a headline that promises a return fare of £9 to London - which is why Ryanair doesn't even tryThu Jan 13 2000 - 00:00
Advertising 1999 - the good, bad and uglyMr Martin Larkin, managing director, the Larkin PartnershipThu Dec 30 1999 - 00:00
New RTE schedule increases number of sponsored slotsRTE's new television schedule begins next week and the line-up includes more sponsored programmesTue Dec 28 1999 - 00:00
Millennium trouble aheadAs dream clients go, the National Millennium Committee would appear to have it allThu Dec 23 1999 - 00:00
Audiences keep media buffs happyThere was much jumping up and down in the print media this week over falling TV viewership figures and, while it might make for…Thu Dec 09 1999 - 00:00
Bonanza Christmas as shops open early and stay on lateFancy buying a designer evening dress at 8Wed Dec 01 1999 - 00:00
Charity wins with $1m from `lost money'Cause-related marketing sounds like a "touchy feely" 1990s idea but it is increasingly becoming an important weapon in brand …Thu Nov 25 1999 - 00:00
Guide to media trendsThe Institute of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland (IAPI) has produced a guide to media trends over the past five years detailing…Thu Nov 25 1999 - 00:00
Budweiser lizard winsLouie the Lizard's dastardly tricks won out in the end because the slimy candidate got the majority of the 35,000 votes in Budweiser…Thu Nov 25 1999 - 00:00
Teaser campaign working for FordOgilvy & Mather's teaser campaign for Ford seems to be working with one potential customer reporting that he had seen a Wasis…Thu Nov 25 1999 - 00:00
Louie v Frog a winner for BudThe hand-wringing following the low turnout in the recent Dublin South Central by-election is set to go into overdrive once politicians…Thu Nov 18 1999 - 00:00
Advertising/MarketingIncome results from CanWest, the largest shareholder in TV3, indicate the Irish station has been selling its airtime at steep…Thu Nov 18 1999 - 00:00
Victorian redbrick back on market for £720,000-plusA three-bed Victorian semi-detached house at 51 Morehampton Road is expected to fetch over £720,000 when it is auctioned by Sherry…Thu Nov 11 1999 - 00:00
Travellers give voice to exclusion"What is a knacker? I mean do I look like a knacker?" asks a young girl in one of a series of three new radio advertisements …Thu Nov 11 1999 - 00:00
Drug firm advert raises ethical issuesA drug company is introducing a new television advertising campaign tomorrow night on RTE 1 which raises the issue of advertising…Thu Nov 04 1999 - 00:00
Period home has air raid shelterA five-bedroom house on Highfield Road, Rathgar, is set to make over £700,000 at a Hamilton Osborne King auction on November …Thu Nov 04 1999 - 00:00
Irish publication goes down a new `Avenue'Magazines, and particularly Irish magazines, tend not to be the most innovative sector of the media but Avenue, a new Irish bi…Fri Oct 29 1999 - 01:00
£290,000 for three-bed home in StillorganIt is six years since the large Fosterbrook housing development in Stillorgan was completed and the houses are now starting to…Thu Oct 28 1999 - 01:00
Boru stable pitches for share of growing whiskey businessCan you really see a whiskey drinker ordering a Clontarf and coke? Pat Rigney and Dave Phelan canThu Oct 28 1999 - 01:00
Discount retailer to test price over brandIn any other retail category, the arrival of one of Europe's biggest retailers into the market would make the local competition…Wed Oct 27 1999 - 01:00
New arrival pursues the perfect lookBoob jobs and facelifts used to be so exotic and starry that no interview with a Hollywood celebrity was complete without mention…Thu Oct 21 1999 - 01:00
All tobacco ads in Irish newspapers to be banned starting in June 2000All tobacco advertising in Irish newspapers will be banned from June 2000Thu Oct 21 1999 - 01:00
Bray three-bed semis from £180,000Houses in Fern brook, a development of 13 houses on Old Connaught Avenue, in Bray, Co Wicklow, go on sale todayThu Oct 21 1999 - 01:00
Rise of Internet to generate debateExpect a lively debate at today's day-long national marketing conference, especially after Mr Gerard O'Neill of Amarach Consulting…Thu Oct 14 1999 - 01:00
Apartments in Temple Bar for sale at £168,000A new development of 29 apartments in Temple Bar will be on view tomorrow during an open day organised by Temple Bar Properties…Thu Oct 07 1999 - 01:00
Ranelagh redbrick for over £800,000Mountain View House, on Mountain View Road, Ranelagh, Dublin 6, is by far the largest house on this much sought-after road of…Thu Oct 07 1999 - 01:00
Imposing Georgian house and 500-acre farm for over £2.5mA 500-acre farm with an imposing Georgian house in the heart of the Golden Vale is bound to raise a good deal of interest when…Thu Sept 30 1999 - 01:00
£500,000-plus three-storey has period charmWhen estate agents say that a house retains many of its period features they don't usually mean the wallpaperThu Sept 30 1999 - 01:00
Diageo suitors await result of final pitchesWhat is happening with the Diageo pitch? With £15 million (€19Thu Sept 30 1999 - 01:00
Room to grow in architect's homeTop of the wish-list of most architects is to build their own home from scratch and Paul Joyce achieved his ambition when he …Thu Sept 23 1999 - 01:00
Advertisers balk at sales-based paymentProcter & Gamble, the world's biggest advertiser, has announced it is going to pay its advertising agencies on the basis …Thu Sept 23 1999 - 01:00
Donnybrook redbrick for £400,000-plusThe Gunne agency is suggesting a guide of £400,000-plus for 12 Auburn Avenue, Dublin 4, in advance of its auction on September…Thu Sept 16 1999 - 01:00
£175,000-plus for Square dealNumber 2 Havelock Square, in Sandy mount, will be auctioned by Finnegan Menton, on October 6thThu Sept 16 1999 - 01:00
£650,000-plus for a period house with character and great potentialWith a pre-auction guide price of £650,000-plus, a terraced house at 31 Upper Leeson Street, Dublin 4, is undoubtedly going to…Thu Sept 16 1999 - 01:00
Few shocks in survey of teenagersTypical Irish teenagers love hanging around shopping centres, mostly agree with their parents' values, drink Coke, wear Nike …Thu Sept 16 1999 - 01:00
Last orders at the bar as Smyth's finally calls timeYet another Dublin institution is about to be put on the blockThu Sept 09 1999 - 01:00
Sunday broadsheet sheds column inchesThe new JNRR (Joint National Readership Research) figures will give Ireland on Sunday more than enough ammunition to convince…Thu Sept 09 1999 - 01:00
And the news is . . . a home with a contemporary twistLooking at 7 Laurelton, off Bushy Park Road in Terenure, Dublin 6, it is difficult to believe that inside this rather plain looking…Thu Sept 09 1999 - 01:00
Stylish apartments in old school conversionThe sympathetic conversion of interesting old buildings into upscale apartments has been fairly rare in this country but increasingly…Thu Sept 02 1999 - 01:00
£425,000-plus for refurbished 1930s four-bed in TerenurePre-war semi-detached houses in well-established areas are always much sought after as family homes, especially when they have…Thu Sept 02 1999 - 01:00
Telecom makes the eircom switchThe advertising campaign announcing Telecom Eireann's name change to eircom starts this SaturdayThu Sept 02 1999 - 01:00
Period style in Brighton SquareBroadcaster Ciana Campbell, a familiar face on RTE, is selling her Rathgar house as she and her family are relocating to Co Clare…Thu Aug 26 1999 - 01:00
B of I selling service with its Y2K campaignPoliticians rarely comment one way or the other on advertising but in a radio interview this week Fine Gael's Michael Noonan …Thu Aug 26 1999 - 01:00
