With social media grabbing all the headlines these days, it’s easy to forget just how important radio remains in Irish life. 85% of us tune into a radio station every day and the average listener takes in a daily helping of just under four and a half hours of music and talk. Morning Ireland remains
Last Wednesday we had the pleasure of supporting the Independent Broadcasters of Ireland as they hosted a briefing day for Oireachtas members. Throughout the day, over 100 TDs and Senators came to Buswells Hotel to meet representatives from independent radio stations across the country and to discuss the place of independent radio in Irish society.
Some of the lessons of the first no vote to the Lisbon Treaty referendum seem to be have been learned, but then forgotten just as easily. We’ll soon know just how costly this will prove when it comes to the crucial Fiscal Treaty poll in early June. One of the big lessons was that engaging
Ask any PR person and they’ll tell you they can spot a novice or untrained media performer in the first few seconds of a radio interview. Our ears are finely tuned after years of providing advice to clients on the do’s and don’ts of the interview. My own PPP (personal pet peeve) is the interviewee
A few weeks ago, my colleague Michelle wrote a blog on the communications fiasco which was the Household charge. You’d think the Government would have learned a few lessons since then but events in recent days relating to the installation of water meters suggest otherwise. Indeed all of the signals to date are of two
The programme for government promised to introduce a statutory register of lobbyists and rules concerning the practice of lobbying. The process moved a step further yesterday when the Government published the submissions made to it on its proposals for a register. The Public Relations Consultants Association (Ireland), a professional body representing public relations and public
The decision by Government to hold a referendum on the Fiscal Treaty came as something of a surprise. Many commentators believed that the narrowly framed Fiscal Treaty had been framed so as to avoid the need for Ireland to hold a referendum. The reasons for the decision to do so remain unclear, but may be
In America, there is a lovely tradition at Thanksgiving where everyone gathered around the table for thanksgiving dinner tell of one thing that they have to be thankful for during the past year. Here in Ireland, we don’t tend to sit around the turkey at Christmas espousing our reasons to be grateful, and we’d probably