8th November, 2011; Dublin, Ireland: Be prepared to recapture the allure and energy of a golden age of music, dance and fashion as The Royal Marine Hotel in Dun Laoghaire will be awash with glamour this Sunday, when it hosts the Vintage Fashion and Décor Fair. The fair will be a celebration of the fashion and style of the 20th century, from the 1920s to the 80s, and will showcase fashion, beauty, home décor, music and dance of the era.
It will be a magnet for lovers of fashion and “style with a history” with over fifty specialists from all over Ireland displaying and selling a wide range of vintage clothes and retro décor. There will be plenty to satisfy the discerning shopper looking for something unique with all sorts of original memorabilia – from 1950s radios to film posters, pretty china to opera glasses. It is a treasure trove of all that was loved and cared for in the 20th century. Continue reading “Vintage fashion and style comes to Dublin” »
We invited TV3′s Morning Show and presenter Sybil Mulcahy up to Taekwon-do Grandmaster Robert Howard’s ‘dojang’ (Korean for school) in Cabra this week for a demonstration on the skills of Taekwon-do.
Grandmaster Howard talked about his promotion in North Korea and showed that at 73 he’s lost little of prowess. Some of his younger more nimble students did the more complicated kicks and punches including a smashing of brick with one punch and the breaking of up to ten tiles with flying kicks. They were even able to break tiles just with their wrists, thus proving that any part of your body can be used to defend yourself.
Sybils was a great sport and even held board as it was broken by Grandmaster Howard’s seven year old grandson Finn.
A great job vacancy has arisen for anyone interested in fashion, Snickers Workwear are currently recruiting for a new Marketing Coordinator. Snickers Workear are a Swedish company that practically invented workwear in 1970s. Since then they have become synonymous with stylish, durable and comforable workwear. These days their gear is worn by everyone from tradesmen (and women) to sailors or snowboarders. Whether it’s work, outdoor pursuits or just relaxing about, their clothes can withstand anything the elements can throw at them and because they’re designed as workwear they’re very comfy.
Here are the details:
Marketing Coordinator
Snickers Workwear is Ireland’s leading supplier of high quality functional workwear, designed for professional trade’s people as well as the service, maintenance, distribution and manufacturing sectors. Our products are designed specifically for professionals and the companies they work for.
Reporting directly to our sales and marketing manager the ideal candidate should be a good communicator, market oriented and excel when working individually. You will be part of a dynamic team and will receive a full introduction in our Dublin office as well as our head office in Stockholm.
If you are enthusiastic and would welcome the challenge of working in a fast moving industry we would like to hear from you. Applicants should preferably have at least 2/3 years experience but this is not essential.
This morning Taekwon-do Grandmaster Robert Howard was interview in the studio for the Tom Dunne Show on Newstalk. Whilst in the studio he also did a demonstration of smashing tiles with his hands. You can listen back to the interview here.
My new client’s the Republic of Ireland Taekwon-do Association (RITA) had some big news this week when their President Robert Howard was promoted to Grandmaster at a ceremony in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. Grandmaster Howard is the first European to reach such a lofty status in the Korean martial art and his is now ranked eight in the world at Taekwon-do.
The retired roofer renowned for smashing roof tiles.
72 year old Dubliner and Taekwon-do Grandmaster, Robert Howard, has been having a whirlwind few weeks. After being inducted to the Taekwon-do hall of fame in North Korea he has been in much demand from the media wanting to talk to him about his achievements.
Journalist Matt Cooper is a big sports fan and his drivetime radio show, whilst it does feature heavily on current affairs does like to focus on some stories that are a bit different. So they had Grandmaster Howard on the show yesterday.
Shane Curran the head of Global Flood Solutionsm, the Roscommon flood prevention firm, made his mark on national radio this week when he was interviewed by the lovely Kathryn Thomas. She was standing in on the John Murray Show, which airs at 9am every weekday on RTE Radio 1.
Shane was asked to come onto the show after his Big Bags System flood barrier was used to protect the largest wasterwater treatment in the world, situated along the Potoman River in Washington DC. As Hurricane Irene hit last week there were fears that the treatment plant could be flooded. Thankfully disaster was averted.
Being an ex-professional footballer and former GAA Inter-County player Shane is no shrinking violet and he certainly wasn’t complaining getting a chance to talk to Kathryn. She must’ve enjoyed talking to him too as she had him on for nearly ten minutes.
Please click the link below to listen to the interview:
The legal PR work I am doing is continuing to pay off handsomely for Dublin law firm Anthony Joyce & Co, after having Anthony on RTE TV’s main Six One News last week, and getting him a front page splash in Ireland’s best selling newspaper The Sunday Independent yesterday, today his story also featured on page 2 of The Irish Times (see below) following a telephone interview he did as he was cycling around the countryside on Sunday.
Today he also featured heavily in the broadcast media where he was on Newstalk’s Breakfast Show, a national radio station for which he also did a pre-recorded interview on Sunday. Then he did a live interview for Today FM’s Ray Darcy Show, also a national radio station, the same interview was then also used on the much respected Last Word, hosted by ex-Sunday Tribune Editor, Matt Cooper.
I’ll be adding MP3s of these interviews shortly, meanwhile here’s The Irish Times piece.
The Irish Times article by Kitty Holland (click to zoom).
Today I had a bit of coup getting the front page headline, known in the trade as a ‘splash’, on Ireland’s biggest selling newspaper The Sunday Independent. The newspapers has over a million readers, that’s a quarter of the country’s population, so it was a big day for the client, Dublin legal firm Anthony Joyce & Co.
It’s incredible how sometimes a story can gain momentum. We contacted by the journalist Ronal Quinlan following Anthony’s appearance on the TV on the RTE Six One News on Thursday please click here to see it. Ronald needed written confirmation of the decision from the mortgage lender before his editor would give the approval for the story, so we needed to get approval from the client to release the letter and give get to him for his internal approval process. A newspaper doesn’t wait as print deadlines can’t be missed and ended up cutting it a bit fine, but thankfully the front pages are the last to be completed, needless to say I had a busy Saturday. But, it was well worth it to get such a major from page for a client.
The Sunday Independent 'splash' (please click to zoom).
We had a great bit of legal PR for Dublin law firm Anthony Joyce & Co yesterday when Anthony featured on TV in RTE’s Six One News. He was interviewed by Paul Colgan, who recently also interviewed him for RTE1′s Primetime TV show. Anthony was discussing a case where a couple of clients sold their house and were able to get their mortgage lender to write-off the €200,000 balance of their mortgage.
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