Tag: Ireland
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A perfect pint in Dublin
Read more: A perfect pint in Dublinby Pádraic Gilligan, Co-Founder, SoolNua Consulting & Research / Consultancy, SITE Irish people are tricky when it comes to pubs and Guinness. We always prefer the reassuring familiarity of our own “local”, bound by the quiet rituals of where…
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Why you should enter for industry awards
Read more: Why you should enter for industry awardsby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Reflections in the light of Ireland’s Events Industry Awards 2015 During our time at Ovation | MCI, entering for MICE industry awards was a key pillar in our business strategy because it ticked…
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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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Excellence in Destination Marketing – Lessons from Iceland and Ireland
Read more: Excellence in Destination Marketing – Lessons from Iceland and Irelandby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Iceland and Ireland have a whole lot more in common than the 6 vowels and consonants they share. They’re both islands in the northern hemisphere. They both have reputations as great places to…
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Dublin – 10 things to do off-the-beaten path
Read more: Dublin – 10 things to do off-the-beaten pathby Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Off-Beat and Off-the-Beaten Path When the Travel Bloggers [TBEX] conference took place in Dublin a few years ago there were quibbles that these intrepid investigators didn’t really showcase anything new or different about…
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The Power of Live Events – 5 things that Web Summit did for Dublin
Read more: The Power of Live Events – 5 things that Web Summit did for Dublinby Padraic Gilligan, Vice President, Industry Relations, MCI Nasty attack of FOMO At a certain point yesterday that dreaded FOMO syndrome took hold and I embarked on a mad dash around the various stages and pitching areas in a…
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What do travel bloggers think of Ireland? TBEX Dublin
Read more: What do travel bloggers think of Ireland? TBEX Dublinby Padraic Gilligan, Vice President, Ovation Global DMC TBEX, Dublin Technology, the internet and digital platforms have systematically altered the business tourism landscape as dramatically as the recent emergence of luxury destinations like Dubai and Abu Dhabi in locations…
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Donegal and Lough Eske Castle: up here it’s different
Read more: Donegal and Lough Eske Castle: up here it’s differentby Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Up here it’s different! Pat Gallagher of the late lamented Goats Don’t Shave wrote a cracking song called “Las Vegas in the Hills of Donegal”. The chorus goes like this: And if I…
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The Best Place to Holiday in Ireland
Read more: The Best Place to Holiday in Irelandby Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua First published in 2013 I’m re-publishing this post to mark the launch of Fáilte Ireland’s new tourism brand – Ireland’s Hidden Heartlands Cornafurrish is the townland in Co Offaly where my late father…
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