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Edelman Wins Ryanair’s UK/Ireland Business

Ryanair, the world’s favourite airline, today announced that it has awarded its UK/Ireland Media/Communications business to Edelman (Ireland) after a very competitive tender process in which over 30 UK/Ireland agencies pitched to represent Ryanair.
Edelman will take over Ryanair’s UK/Ireland communications from Murray Consultants from 1st August 2010 from which date all media queries should be [...]

Dan Edelman at 90

Dan Edelman, our company founder, recently turned 90 and we have pulled together some videos looking back at some of his accomplishments, which are embedded below to view.

Mark Cahalane At The Sales Institute of Ireland Annual Conference 2010

Mark Cahalane, Edelman Ireland MD, recently spoke at the Sales Institute of Ireland Annual Conference 2010 during the session entitled ‘Restoring Trust & Confidence.’ Here is a link to the webcast of the session, which Cahalane discusses some of the findings of the Edelman Trust Barometer.

Get Updates On The UK General Election

Edelman UK will be providing updates on the UK general election here over the next couple of weeks. The Public Affairs team will share insights on how the campaign is progressing and also examine whether social media will have an impact on the election outcome.

Insights on Facebook From Dublin Chamber of Commerce Business Breakfast

I attended the Dublin Chamber of Commerce Business Breakfast Briefing event with Colm Long, Director of Online Operations for Facebook this morning.
Here’s a brief synopsis of what Colm spoke about, which included a lot of very interesting points:

Obviously key to facebook is engagement, Colm referred to facebook as the “most engaging page on the internet” [...]

Social Media and Haiti

The first independent nation in Latin America and the first black-led republic in the world, Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and has experienced political violence throughout its history. The earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12th further devastated a country already in need.
Figures vary, but it is estimated that 150,000 [...]

Edelman Ireland appoints Peter Brennan to its Board

Edelman Ireland has today announced the appointment of Peter Brennan as a non-executive director of its advisory board. Dr Brennan is Managing Director of EPS Consulting (formerly A&L Goodbody Consulting), which he established in 2001. He has a unique mix of public and private sector experience at both national and international level spanning a [...]

Geraldine O’Neill Awarded Fellowship of Marketing Institute of Ireland

The Board of the Marketing Institute of Ireland has announced the names of eleven members who are to be conferred with the highest category of membership, that of Fellow of the Institute. Fellowship is awarded in recognition of a members contribution to marketing and/or to the work of the Institute itself. The new Fellows for [...]

2010 findings of the Edelman Global Trust Barometer to be presented on Tuesday 26th January

Edelman in association with the Marketing Institute will host a breakfast briefing on the 2010 findings of the Edelman Global Trust Barometer on Tuesday 26th January 2010. This is the 11th trust and credibility survey undertaken by Edelman and only the fourth to include Irish specific data.
The Trust Barometer measures levels of trust among [...]

Ireland’s Most Important Celebrity Twitterers Revealed

Father Ted writer Graham Linehan Tops the List Ahead Of Rick O’Shea and Dave Moore according to Edelman’s TweetLevel
Ireland’s most important celebrity twitterers have been unveiled today as part of the launch of TweetLevel in Ireland. TweetLevel is a new measurement tool that calculates someone’s importance on Twitter. It has been developed by [...]