New style of branding underfoot
With pressure on schools and colleges to provide top class sports facilities but with less and less direct funding, a trend in the US may well have benefit if crossing the Atlantic.
Read MoreMar 28, 2013 | Basketball, News Members, Venues
With pressure on schools and colleges to provide top class sports facilities but with less and less direct funding, a trend in the US may well have benefit if crossing the Atlantic.
Read MoreMar 27, 2013 | News Members, Sport for Business
Funding through the Women in Sport programme has fallen again for 2013. The drop of around 5% applies across all sports who received grants under the scheme and is most harshly felt in the absence of commercial partnership support.
Read MoreMar 27, 2013 | News Members, Soccer, Social media
Aviva used its advertising space at the FIFA World Cup Qualifier against Austria to promote its Fan Pic, an experience that lengthen’s a fans engagement with an event and is proving a real Irish success story.
Read MoreMar 27, 2013 | News Members, Soccer
Tottenham star Gareth Bale has broken new ground by signing a broadcast ambassador role with BT Sport, another signal of their serious intent to go toe to toe with Sky Sports in the premium TV sports market.
Read MoreMar 26, 2013 | Cricket, News Members
How Cricket and Archery proved to be winners in the core grant funding announced by the Irish Sports Council and which two of the main sports outside the ‘big three’ saw a small increase as well.
Read MoreMar 26, 2013 | Legal, News Members
Benoit Keane’s view of the value of rights, the benefits of pooling and the dangers of corruption through unregulated betting provided much food for thought at the EU Conference on Sport hosted in Dublin in March.
Read MoreMar 26, 2013 | Horse Racing, News Members, Sports Tourism
The success of Irish trained horse at this year’s Cheltenham Festival is to be celebrated in financial style at Punchestown with news that overall prize money for winners over the five days is to increase by €200,000.
Read MoreMar 25, 2013 | GAA, News Members, Technology
Change to rules on the field grabbed the attention at the GAA Annual Congress but it is changes to how sponsorship is handled that may have the greater long term impact for the Association.
Read MoreMar 25, 2013 | News Members, Rugby
Thank You is a powerful phrase at any time, especially in sport when said with meaning from players to fans. Capturing the moment on video builds a good atmosphere around all involved in a team and ought to be used more.
Read MoreMar 25, 2013 | News Members, Soccer, Sport for Business
The loss of a high profile friendly fixture between Drogheda United and Trabzonspor was scant reward for an imaginative twinning that will have benefit far beyond the confines of a football pitch.
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