ETC - Events, Tourism, Communications

11/07/2024

As always, it's been a great experience working across the promotion of Volvo Cork Week 2024 which takes place from Monday July 15th to July 20th in Crosshaven. This year’s event will feature over 120 boats and attract 8,000 sailors and spectators to the harbour town for a week of thrilling races and maritime festivities.

To kick off the week, the Volvo Cork Week Family Day takes place this Sunday, 14th July, from 12-5pm, at Royal Cork Yacht Club.

Activities include face painting, balloon modelling, an expanded family-friendly area which includes a Play Zone for children’s games, and a bigger Coastal Market. Families can also enjoy trails to Camden Fort Meagher, a colouring competition with some fantastic prizes, a children’s marine talk with Sam Cox at 1pm, the famous Pipers Fun Fair and boat trips from Custom House Quay on the Cailin Ór. Red FM’s Katie Jane Cronin will broadcast live from the Royal Cork Yacht Club from 2-5pm. Make a day out this Sunday with Volvo Cork Week!

The Harbour Race on Wednesday, July 17th, promises to be a spectacular viewing event. A number of Championship races will also take place from Monday to Friday. Catch the action from recommended viewing points: Camden and Church Bay in Crosshaven, the new Haulbowline Island Amenity Park, Ringaskiddy, and the promenade in Cobh.

Volvo Cars Volvo Cork Week Royal Cork Yacht Club Johnson and perrott Cork's Red FM

07/06/2024

🔍🎪🌍Looking for something to do with your kids this weekend? Get them excited about the magical world of science and nature at Cork Carnival of Science at Fitzgerald Park, with live Big Marquee and Little Top live science shows, demonstrations and science fun activities galore!
Explore, investigate, experiment, and discover the wonders of science at this FREE event.

Supported by Cork City Council Science Ireland corkcity.ie/en/cork-carnival-of-science

30/05/2024

The Guinness Cork Jazz Festival is back this October Bank Holiday weekend (24th–28th) for the 46th year. 🎷🎤 Ireland’s finest music festival continues to pay tribute to and expand the definition of Jazz, bringing a bountiful weekend of musical expression to the real capital. Mark your calendars!


Tickets go on sale this Friday, 31st of May at 10am.

 

30/05/2024

What a fantastic opening night of Giulio Cesare by G.F. Handel on the grounds of Lismore Castle, Co. Waterford as part of the Blackwater Valley Opera Festival 2024.

Over the coming days visitors will be able to engage their senses as they bask in the summer sunshine with stunning performances by some of Ireland and Europe’s leading classical and operatic performers and bespoke dining experiences, in stunning historic venues. The festival runs until June 3rd.

23/05/2024

One of the hottest tickets at this year’s will be .vq Shared Table - sponsored by this event will see 400 dine on MacCurtain St - a fantastic chef collab showcasing the rich flavours of the area. Supported by . Tickets go on sale at 9am tomorrow and are expected to sell out quickly!! See events at www.corkonaforkfest.ie CorkonaForkFest is a festival supporter by .vq with media partners

23/05/2024

Our MD was a guest speaker at this mornings .vq Destination Forum - speaking about the upcoming - thank you to Katherine and Shane for the invitation to speak and present the opportunities available for for businesses and to get involved. Also great insights from Danielle O’Donovan who spoke about heritage opportunities in the area.

16/05/2024

Superb media coverage so far following the launch of ! 🥃☘️
Thank you to the media who have supported and also those who joined us at the launch on Monday evening.
Check out some of the fantastic print coverage from this week!

15/05/2024

What a night! Our team managing the launch of at with 🥃 ☘️

09/05/2024

Hard to believe but it’s been 3 weeks already since the sensational Waterford Festival of Food took place in the scenic harbour town of Dungarvan and surrounds!

We loved being involved in this heartfelt festival of regional flavours, people, produce and fun and supporting their amazing festival team headed up by Festival CEO Eunice Power, Administrator Martha Macklin and Office Manager Mary Foley.

Between the success of the festival’s events, fantastic media coverage, a record turnout and the gorgeous weather we are still on a high!

03/05/2024

A look back at last Sunday’s event at Cork’s Elizabeth Fort, which was transformed into a literary wonderland for the day as part of the hugely successful Cork World Book Festival! ✨📖📚

We loved working with Cork City Arts Office to promote this super ‘Planning for Outdoor Performance’ Arts event.

Thank you to the media who featured the event and to everyone who visited Elizabeth Fort over the weekend, contributing to shining a spotlight on Cork’s rich literary talents!

30/04/2024

We are closing the book on a wonderful 'Planning for Outdoor Performance' Arts event @ Elizabeth Fort as part of Cork World Book Festival 2024! 📖✨

Cork's Elizabeth Fort was transformed into a literary wonderland on Sunday as part of the hugely successful Cork World Book Festival. Book lovers and word enthusiasts gathered for a lively celebration of poetry, storytelling, writing, and spoken word.

The event showcased a vibrant lineup of local poets, writers, and performers, alongside interactive workshops and captivating music by talented local musicians. Attendees explored a pop-up book fair, lively poetry sessions, and enchanting nature based storytelling sessions. The day culminated in an electrifying spoken word open mic event curated by O’ Bhéal and a spellbinding storytelling performance entitled 'Lifting the Gate' by Ben Mac Caoilte.

Thank you to the media who featured the event and to everyone who attended Elizabeth Fort over the weekend and contributed to shining a spotlight on Cork's rich literary talents!

Cork City Council Poetry Ireland Community

(Pictures by Clare Keogh)

22/04/2024

What an incredible weekend for Waterford Festival of Food! Our ETC - Events, Tourism, Communications team was out in force to support Eunice Power and the festival team with promotion and social media and photography. This year's festival attracted 75k people with increased dwell time and spend! Great boost for the local economy and spotlight on the regions food credentials. We love working on this high quality and enjoyable festival!

Niamh Murphy Clair Phillips Vivienne McCarthy Joleen Cronin Captures by Chani

19/04/2024

Our team were delighted to work with Fáilte Ireland to host a workshop this week on festival event management and marketing at in Kildare 🐎 ☘️

18/03/2024

Busy week in New York with and - Huge congrats to Michael Flatley for receiving the Ireland US Councils Outstanding Achievement Award at . And for hosting a charity dinner with New York’s business leaders for - and generously auctioning your Oscar Wilde print in aid of the charity. Great connections made for Breakthrough and increased awareness of their fantastic cancer research work throughout Ireland.

08/03/2024

Happy - we are so lucky to have such strong, talented, kind, creative, resourceful women on our ETC team who truly collaborate and support each other, in addition to incredible clients! Also a huge welcome to our new colleague Nicole Murphy pictured here at this mornings breakfast .

30/01/2024

With 42,000 cancer diagnoses per year in Ireland, please support this brilliant new digital initiative.  aims to raise funds for world class research into new cancer treatments and therapies, and support services across Ireland. Simply upload a selfie to www.faceuptocancer.ie, and make a donation. Your selfie will then form part of a series of facial mosaics showing the faces of both people affected by cancer, and the research experts working tirelessly to improve cancer care and treatments.

We are delighted to be working on this campaign with on along with and

 

22/12/2023

We’ve had such fun, interesting and busy year. One project for was to celebrate the 200-year anniversary of .

The Palace has held court to Ireland's political leaders, media, cultural icons, and celebrities for centuries. So we thought… what if these walls could talk, what stories would they share?

ETC created a campaign called ‘Talking Walls, stories from a 200-year pub with history in every pour’.

We rolled out a video documentary series sharing stories from the walls of The Palace.

We also wanted to create something that would capture a moment in time. The most iconic piece of artwork is an Irish Times sketch from 1940, depicting The Palace at the epicentre of ‘Dublin Culture’, so we created a replica cartoon sketch depicting todays characters and legends, ‘Dublin Culture 2023’.

This framed sketch now sits proudly on The Palace wall next to the original. We also took out a double page spread in the Irish Times to showcase both, side-by-side.

We created a window vinyl with the original sketch for all to see as they walk past the bar, and also a series of beermats that form a jigsaw of the sketch. Each of the ‘jigsaw’ pieces gives a snippet of a story on the reverse and is linked one of the video documentaries.

Guinness created a special anniversary brew based on a 200-year old recipe from Arthur Guinness’s recipe book, and we used these bottles as invites for the anniversary party.

We also held a PR launch with a 2-hour Talking Walls broadcast from The Palace with .1009 where we unveiled the new sketch and a new Seamus Heaney Artwork.

A book of short stories called Talking Walls has also just been launched by historian Eamonn Casey.

And we secured national and regional media coverage with our PR campaign.

Thank you to and for the opportunity.

Creative concept ETC content creation and campaign roll out and Sketch design .creative photography media buy videography

19/12/2023

The has just announced the first headliner of 2024 🔊 Gregory Porter!

Just in time for a last-minute Christmas present! As a double Grammy Award winner and a jazz legend, is set to captivate audiences at the on a night that promises to be nothing short of spectacular.

Thursday 24th October 2024  🎶

Tickets go on sale this Wednesday at 12pm on guinnesscorkjazz.com.

Next year’s lineup is bigger and better than ever...

   

19/12/2023

We are delighted to be working with the Wander Wild Festival in Killarney again this year. Experience thrills, mindfulness, and natural beauty at Ireland’s great outdoors festival 22-24th March 2024. There are over 100 events designed to cater to the body, mind, and soul of every adventurer. Whether you're an adrenaline ju**ie seeking thrilling experiences or a nature enthusiast who loves going off the beaten track, this festival has something for everyone. If you are looking for a weekend of adventure or serenity check out 
Tickets are on sale now and would make the perfect gift for the adventurer in your life!

Wander Wild Festival is sponsored by .ireland and supported by and
     

03/11/2023

Reflecting on an incredible weekend of electric performances at festival last weekend. We are so proud to help promote this 5 day festival which continues to scale year on year - now attracting 100,000 visitors to and worth an estimated €45 million to the local economy. Huge kudos to festival director Mark Murphy and all his team, to the Cork Jazz Festival Committee who run The Big Fringe which brings jazz to life on the streets of Cork - led by the brilliant - to Guinness who invest significant resources and finances to make it all happen, to for their support. Also huge congrats to all the business in the city who pulled out all the stops, and were so warm and hospitable to visitors. To media, influencers and our photographer who helped us promote the festival locally and nationally. The coverage was phenomenal! Finally to our own team on this and and the wider agency team and - pleasure as always working with you all.

03/11/2023

Santa-paws anyone? We’re getting into the festive spirit at ETC as we work with to promote their fantastic Santa experience at - . The brand new experience includes a polar express train, an elf toy workshop, Mrs Claus’ bakery, the South Poll post office and a magical visit to Santa. And a big bonus for many id that it’s dog friendly and fur babies can even be booked on for their own special visit with 🦴🎅Who’s excited? Book on Santas.magicalmarket

26/10/2023

20/10/2023

We were proud to be part of an historic moment in Cork City today as the new statue was unveiled by Lord Mayor and Cork legends Rena Buckley and Jimmy Barry Murphy in front of a crowd of hundreds and the Michael Collins family. Photos by

20/10/2023

We were proud to be part of an historical moment in Cork City today as the new Michael Collins statue was unveiled by Lord Mayor Billy Barry Murphy and Rena Buckley in front of a crowd of hundreds and the Michael Collins family. pics by

29/09/2023

Only one week to go until The Nightmare Realm opens at Dublin’s City Market on Mary’s Lane! We’ve been working with this client for many years and it’s always new and surprising. Voted this year as the Best Scream Park in Europe the Night Terrors theme has 5 terrifying new scare mazes, interactive secret rooms, Halloweentown, food courts, an expanded Museum of Horrors, and lots of entertainment! www.theightmarerealm.ie

27/09/2023

It’s the final countdown to Space Week Ireland 2023- a nationwide festival celebrating space and science from 4-10 Oct.

This year’s theme is ‘Our Planet, Our Space, Our Time and public events across the country will include talks, tours, astronomy events, an astrophotography exhibition, space art, and even a space careers roadshow. There will also be hands-on workshops on rocket making, investigations into the origins of the solar system, and satellite communication. Or learn about hosting a Stargazing Party at home with family and friends!

Here at ETC - Events, Tourism, Communications we are delighted to be on board to launch this interstellar programme of events which brings schools, businesses, community groups, astronomy clubs, and members of the public together with the space community for an out of this world festival!

Science Ireland Blackrock Castle Observatory Clare Keogh ESERO Ireland

For more see www.spaceweek.ie

26/06/2023

What a great reaction to last week’s’s Biseach ón Ailse on . Broadcaster and journalist, , brought two inspiring cancer survivors face to face with two cancer researchers to reveal the life-changing impact this cutting-edge research is having in Ireland today. Great work by and to bring the story to air. If you missed it, catch it on TG4 Player now.

12/06/2023

Cork’s most delicious week returns this August for a feast of fun! 🍴🎪

We are delighted to announce that the programme for is officially live on corkonaforkfest.ie with more events to be added over the next few weeks.

The 5-day programme features almost 100 tasty events and experiences to saviour as Cork City is transformed into one big food festival from August 16th-20th.
We’re delighted to be festival managers on behalf of Cork City Council for one of the most exciting festivals to be launched in Cork City.

Supported by Cork City Council in collaboration with Discover Ireland Ireland's Ancient East Cork Business Association Cork Airport Visit Cork

Take a look at the programme here: https://www.corkcity.ie/en/cork-on-a-fork-fest/what-s-on/

Cork’s most delicious week, Cork on a Fork Fest, will return for five days of feasting and fun from 16th – 20th August 2023

27/05/2023

A great start to the evening for the Cork County Mayors Dinner in Westlodge Hotel Bantry in aid of CancerConnect and Bandon Hyperbaric Oxygen Centre

Cork County Council Bernard Casey Comedy The Mayor of the County of Cork

30/01/2023

Delighted to see Cork on a Fork Festshortlisted in Cork Business Association Best Arts, Tourism & Events category. A fantastic achievement in the festival's 1st year. Winner to be decided in public vote. Link in stories. Voting closes on Feb 13th.

Cork's newest food festival was brought to you by Cork City Council Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media together with local hospitality businesses.