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Written by Serious PR on June 5, 2010
It’s not every day a client takes Serious PR global. There have been one or two in recent months and we’re proud of that. This week we were delighted to hear of another client literally going world-wide with news that Portadown’s Colin Turkington is to compete in this year’s World Touring Car Championships. It meant [...]
Written by Serious PR on May 30, 2010
Today’s Mail on Sunday shows how Google has admitted it cynically ‘swiped’ details of thousands – or millions – of our wireless network connections so it could target ads to us. According to the paper the technology giant doubled up while shooting images for its controversial Street View project. The Mail reveals: “As Google’s distinctive [...]
Written by david on May 26, 2010
Tomorrow in Ireland is National Fish and Chips’ Day. And to celebrate chippies in the Irish Republic will be offering punters half price deals.
Thought today’s piece in the Irish Times was great. Connecting with our love of chip butties two of their intrepid reporters set off in search of Dublin’s best fish and chip. Not [...]
Written by Serious PR on May 25, 2010
Our favourite story of the day must be the one reported in today’s News Letter about the three soccer-mad clerics who have got together to write a ‘trinity’ of World Cup prayers. According to the paper the three Church of Ireland clerics penned the prayers – two for the teams, hosts and fans and one for [...]
Written by Serious PR on May 22, 2010
New PM, David Cameron, dropped into Northern Ireland on a whirlwind visit this week and confirmed his new coalition was determined to make this little part of the UK an ‘enterprise’ zone. We don’t know what he means specifically. New Secretary of State, Owen Patterson likes the idea of ‘examining’ the possibility of reducing corporation [...]
Written by david on May 11, 2010
Intriguing to see how new media featured in this evening’s handover of the Prime Ministerial reins from Gordon Brown to David Cameron. First we see the ‘official’ digi image from the palace meeting between the HM The Queen and the new PM and then, shortly after flickr was featuring the first official pics of Mr [...]
Written by david on April 16, 2010
We’ve just finished a challenging and varied week rolling out our range of new services and products alongside PR in NI, RoI and GB.
Amongst the suite of new offerings are brochure production, lobbying, web design, internet marketing and business development.
This week we were in Dungannon, Maghera, Belfast, Bangor working with our team of specialists and [...]
Written by david on April 15, 2010
Fascinating to watch the first live TV debate involving Britain’s ‘big three’ political leaders aired on ITV this evening.
In today’s world of spin and sound bite it’s difficult to get to grips with what really makes a politician tick. Apparently each of the interviewees had invested in top US-based body language and presentational coaches to [...]
Written by david on March 26, 2010
The best of NI business was celebrated last night in Belfast – and one of Serious PR”s longest standing clients was amongst the winners.
Patton Fit Out won the Team of the Year category within the Belfast Telegraph Business Awards held at the Ramada Hotel in Belfast.
The accolade is a fitting tribute to Brendan Boyd and [...]
Written by david on February 25, 2010
Amazing how a little skiff of snow can paralyse life in Northern Ireland. Living in Moira this morning I was late in for work because … I couldn’t get my car out of the driveway!
What a contrast to the little Principality of Andorra and the many other skiing resorts throughout Europe and the rest of [...]
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