Category: Destinations
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Peaceful easy feeling in Jordan
Read more: Peaceful easy feeling in JordanBy Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua I like the way your sparkling ear rings lay Against your skin so brown And I want to sleep with you in the desert tonight With a billion stars all around I got…
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Belfast – what’s the story?
Read more: Belfast – what’s the story?by Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua [THIS IS PART 2 OF A TWO PART DESTINATION BLOG ON BELFAST] When Patrick and I started Delaney Marketing Consultants back in the early 90s our sales trips to the US usually involved…
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Belfast – an overnight MICE success after 20 years
Read more: Belfast – an overnight MICE success after 20 yearsby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua [THIS IS PART ONE OF A TWO PART BLOG ON BELFAST] Throughout our years with Ovation and MCI and now with SoolNua, Patrick and I have spoken at MICE events about destination selection…
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Seeing ourselves as others see us: Dublin as a MICE destination
Read more: Seeing ourselves as others see us: Dublin as a MICE destinationby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! Robert Burns “To a Louse” The sayings of my late mother have featured previously in this blog. This…
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Croagh Patrick, The Greenway and Westport House
Read more: Croagh Patrick, The Greenway and Westport Houseby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Westport was recently voted the best place to live in Ireland, an accolade that has nothing to do with the clemency of the weather there as the town is right on the Wild…
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Dublin for incentives – how to do a great site inspection
Read more: Dublin for incentives – how to do a great site inspectionby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua I remember that Summer in Dublin … It was a warm 22 degrees and the mid morning streets of Dublin were bathed in bright July sunshine. Our pop-up café culture was already in…
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New Orleans – a heart and soul for meetings and incentives
Read more: New Orleans – a heart and soul for meetings and incentivesby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Frisson of Excitement The French Quarter was largely unaffected when Hurricane Katrina caused Armageddon-like devastation in New Orleans in 2005. So on the first morning, as my colleague Aoife and I ambled around…
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Salzburg – much more than the Sound of Music
Read more: Salzburg – much more than the Sound of Musicby Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua I felt sorry for our hosts. Two years working on an event to bring some of the most powerful Professional Conference Organisers in the world to your city and there’s a deluge that…
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MICE in Cork – growing potential for Ireland’s 2nd city
Read more: MICE in Cork – growing potential for Ireland’s 2nd cityby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua For 50 years Avis, the car rental company, used “We try harder” as its tagline. It was a piece of brilliant disruptive marketing, fashioned under the leadership of CEO Robert Townsend, aimed at…
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Ireland: Food Nation
Read more: Ireland: Food Nationby Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Collective Confusion Ireland’s historical relationship with food has tended to be problematical. Our DNA has tended to be encoded with vague, indistinct memories of famine and fasting leaving us collectively confused about the…
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