Piaras Kelly PR - Public Relations in Ireland

As reported in the Irish Times last Friday, Ireland ranked 19th out of the 25 EU states for broadband penetration. You get a clear picture on how far behind Ireland is when you see that countries like Lithuania and Estonia are ahead of us.
So is it any wonder that blogging hardly registers in Ireland? [...]

Paul McCabe has a good article in this month’s Business Plus magazine about the declining listenership in the Dublin marketplace. According to the Joint National Listenership Research (JNLR), listenership has dropped from 85% to 81% since 2000.
McCabe blames radio stations for all targeting the same audience, adults aged 15 to 34. In my [...]

There’s a nice feature on Internet banking in May’s edition of Business & Finance magazine by Ciaran Brennan.
The article points out that the service has failed to live up to expectations and threaten traditional banking as was forecast when Internet banking first emerged (will blogging also fail to live up to the hype? )
The [...]

I’m after receiving an interesting email which got me thinking. There are plenty of small businesses out there that would like do a little public relations, but either don’t know where to start or simply don’t have the time.
Well why not get thirty PR students to do some free PR for you? Twice [...]

The BBC reports on the world’s biggest print media gathering at the 12h World Editors Forum. The main message to come out of the event so far is ‘Don’t believe the hype! Newspapers are far from dead.”
The World Association of Newspapers gave some facts to back this up.

Newspaper circulation rose slightly in 2004
Newspaper advertising [...]

I was rather surprised when I saw my name pop up when reading PR Studies entry on why it’s a good idea for PR students and junior PR practitioners to blog.
Richard gives six reasons on why blogging is a good idea for individuals like myself. I’m particluarly blessed because I’m “lucky enough to [...]