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by Nigel Heneghan The weekend of the All-Ireland Hurling Final and since, you could not have missed Largo Foods’ advertisements for its crisp brand strewn across most of our national print titles. While it is a buyer’s market at present, the cost of the media purchased must be well into a six-figure sum. The marketeers…

by Nigel Heneghan Newspaper licensing is regulation familiar to most public relations consultants and many of our clients. In Ireland, licensing is carried out on behalf of Irish media interests by Newspaper Licensing Ireland (NLI) and the UK’s Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA) which in general oversees UK titles sold in Ireland. In my opinion this…

by Nigel Heneghan In professional terms it has been an unusual start to the year and in differing ways, a sad one. Early on 30th December, I received a call from the Guinness family regarding the death, in the early hours of that morning, of their mother Countess Miranda Iveagh. Miranda’s passing had been expected…

After years of dedication to Lost, I had mixed feelings and felt more confused than ever after the final show. A friend sent me the below summerisation, and while I’m still confused over some aspects, it does answer questions about the Island, and help me tie up a few loose ends in my own mind….…

by Nigel Heneghan Following an engaging and robust campaign culminating in polling on Thursday (6th May 2010) and a compelling overnight count into Friday, it is likely that political stability of sorts will in the next day or so return to the UK, probably with a David Cameron led Conservative involving direct (coalition) or indirect…

Not quite a case of “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” on Saturday, but it was close as one might get. Following two unscheduled nights in London it was a 5:15 am alarm call just off the King’s Road and a 6:00 am taxi to London Euston for the first of three trains to Holyhead – Euston…