Tags: Aviva Stadium, Big Brother, Castlepalooza, Elevate PR, FRU, Galway Races, Jedward
Friday Round Up
- Lots happening around the country for the bank holiday weekend – the Westport Music Festival, CastlePalooza and Indiependence to name a few.. are you going to any of them?
- Another big sporting weekend with the All Ireland Football quarter finals in Croker and Dr Hyde Park. The Galway Races and the 3 Irish Open which is taking place in Killarney finish up on Sunday.
- The first rugby game takes place at the Aviva Stadium tomorrow between the combined teams of Leinster/Ulster and Munster/Connacht
- New boy band ‘The Wanted‘, which includes Dubliner Siva Kaneswaran, are set to be number one in the UK this weekend with their latest single ‘All Time Low’ One of the Elevators saw them live at the Clothes Show in London a few weeks back and said they were brilliant!
- Davina and Jedward are going into Big Brother tonight as part of a task… Housemates will fail the task if they react to the new additions..
30/07/2010 – 15:50 view comments
Tags: BOTW, Elevate PR, Sabrina Dent
BOTW
As well as designing her own websites for a living, American-born businesswoman (now living in Cork) Sabrina Dent provides advice and tips for any up-and-coming business or website on her blog. Her light witty tone makes creating your own website a much less daunting task.
In addition to providing information and support on how to set-up your own website, Sabrina tells tales of her various trips around Ireland (for example to Galway, where she won the coveted ‘Best blog of business’ at this year’s IBAs) as well as her occasional visits back to the US, including a rather eventful trip to Vegas resulting in a dislocated shoulder!
Keen to dispel the myth that web-designers are ‘latte-drinking … Mac-plugged hipsters,’ Sabrina’s honest, funny blog makes for informative but light reading. And with a portfolio to rival any other big-brand web-designers, sabrinadent.com is a necessity for all those people looking to ‘pimp-up’ (her words, not ours!) their existing company profile.
29/07/2010 – 09:55 view comments
Tags: Elevate PR, FRU, GAA, Inception, iPad
Friday Round Up
- The iPad went on sale in Ireland today…. will you be getting one?
- Lindsay Lohan locked up.. but for how long?
- We saw Inception this week – would thoroughly recommend it. It’s a fantastic film with a stong Irish contingent with Cillian Murphy and Pete Postlethwaite playing very important roles in the movie
- Plenty of places to visit this weekend including: Carlsberg Comedy Festival and the Festival of World Cultures
- Both were beaten by Meath, one more controversially than the other, but who will win between Dublin and Louth, all will be decided tomorrow in Croker. Kick off @5pm
23/07/2010 – 16:20 view comments
Tags: Elevate PR, The Anti-Room
BOTW
We’re delighted to see the return of Irish blog The Anti-Room. The blog was founded in 2008 by four Dublin-based journalists, including Anna Carey, Edel Coffey and Sinéad Gleeson and was nominated for Best Group Blog at the Irish Blog Awards in 2009.
The blog has expanded to welcome a wide range of regular contributors, including Tanya Sweeney, Aoife Barry, Fiona McCann, Catherine Brodigan, June Caldwell and Claire O’Connell. The Anti-Room covers a range of topics from fashion to feminism, pop culture to politics, and everything in between.
21/07/2010 – 17:08 1 Comment
Tags: Elevate PR, Elevators, Tanzania, TanzEd, Volunteer
Elevate
Travel
Karen, one of our Account Executives in Elevate, is volunteering in Tanzania for six weeks… here’s how she’s getting on:
I’m having such a great time, and am now half way through the project – I can’t believe how fast it’s going. We’ve just been so busy, it’s crazy! It feels like I’m here about three months not three weeks.
The school I’m teaching in is super nice, it’s called Top Stars and it’s really far away from the place that we’re staying in, but the principal comes and picks us up every morning in her pickup truck which is hilarious because we sit in the back with the bikes and chickens and food and stuff!! We all got bikes because we cycle everywhere! Seriously surprised I haven’t shed half my body weight because there have been daily bouts of sweat and tears on that bike.
In my school, there are only about 10 teachers but they’re all amazing people. It’s a nursery and a primary school so there are super small babies there, who are just adorable. The kids in the school are 3-10, years so they are quite young to be learning computers, but the teachers are really good with them. All our teachers started teaching the kids computers this week and they are really good, its great thinking that we taught them all of the stuff that that they know now…feeling very proud of myself!
Morogoro, the town we’re living in is a nice place up in the mountains. When we were on the way here from Dar Es Saleem, it was scary! You get such a culture shock when you arrive, as there are people everywhere, all living along the sides of the road. On our three hour journey to Morogoro, there wasn’t a second that we didn’t see people living in little houses on the side of the road. All of the African people just stare at us all of the time, they seem gob smacked that we are here. They constantly scream Muzungu at you (“white person”), which took a bit of getting used to, as they stare you right in the face and just roar the word at you!
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20/07/2010 – 10:11 view comments
Clients
Friday Round Up
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- Toy Story 3 arrives in cinemas this weekend – we can’t wait to see the antics in 3D
- Brown Thomas launched its Autumn Winter collection this week – we’re loving the new Victoria Beckham dresses
- Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem’s Secret Wedding – don’t they make a lovely couple?
- The National Heritage Week Event Guide, launched this week by the Heritage Council - experience life in 1210 by living in a castle for a week, get an 18th Century Guide to Marriage, trace your ancestors, dance at the crossroads, taste some famine soup, get an insight into the life of Dublin’s women street traders, take a surf lesson through Irish or go on the hunt for bats in Dromoland Castle…..just some of the 1100 events included in the guide
- Bastille Day – we celebrated on board the famous French ship, the Belem, which was welcomed into Dublin with a luxury Grey Goose vodka reception
- 25 years since Live Aid – they are currently filming ‘When Harvey Met Bob’, a movie depicting Bob Geldof’s trials and tribulations as he went about staging this historic concert
16/07/2010 – 14:50 view comments
Tags: Baby Max, Elevate PR, Guinness Storehouse
Clients
Events
Fashion
Tomorrow, 16th July 2010 the Guinness Storehouse will open its doors to a high profile TV fashion show and event in aid of the Baby Max Wings of Love Fund. The event is being filmed for a Dublin-based episode of Norway’s Next Top Model TV show, which follows the same format as America’s Next Top Model. The ten contestants will take part in a closed fashion catwalk task during the day judged by a surprise New York Celebrity Stylist and designer, Jennifer Rothwell. The winner of this will take to the catwalk that night with some of Ireland’s top models at the charity fashion show, amongst them Sarah Morrissey, Sarah Mc Govern, Ruth Griffin, Yomiko Chen, Chloe Arnold, Martha Christie and Karen Fitzpatrick.
Stylist Cathy O’ Connor, celebrity hairstylist Dylan Bradshaw and some of Ireland’s top designers have come on board to support this worthy cause, including Paul Costello, Jennifer Rothwell, Orla Kiely, Mary Grant, Chesneau Luxury Bags, Fitzpatrick’s Shoes and Rebeka Kahn Artwear. Lisa Fitzpatrick will MC the evening with Máire Ní Chuinneagáin and Anne Morgan co-ordinating everything on the night. Guests will also be treated to entertainment from Paddy Casey, ‘Ishna’ and Frank Jez amongst others.
Tickets cost €50 and are available from www.babymax.ie or on the door
VENUE: Concourse Area and Arrol Suite, Guinness Storehouse, Dublin 8
DATE: Friday, 16th July, 2010
TIME: 7.30pm
TICKETS: €50 and are available online www.babymax.ie, by phoning 086 4053184 or on the door
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15/07/2010 – 10:24 1 Comment
Tags: Bicyclistic, BOTW, Elevate PR
BOTW
Bicyclistic is a blog consisting of the muses, thoughts and activities of a cycling artist named Eolaí gan Fhéile. By combining both his hobbies of painting and cycling, Eolaí posts samples of his paintings (which are mostly for sale), upcoming exhibitions, photographs and stories about his dog (Dog-Dog). All of these elements provide a humorous insight into the freedom provided by both the art of cycling and indeed the art of art itself.
Having cycled solo across America and through Europe, it is safe to say that Dog-Dog’s owner is a keen cyclist! As well as displaying his bright and vivid pieces of art, he uses the blog as a means to relay anecdotes of his various cycling expeditions. He describes the blog as being a ‘continuation’ from another blog that he has written – IrishKC – about his experiences of living in Kansas city and invites readers to find out more about him by perusing his work. Mixing light, witty humour, Bicyclistic is a must-read for any keen artist, cyclist or dog-lover out there.
14/07/2010 – 16:26 1 Comment
