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Weber Shandwick Ireland Walsh Public Relations Ltd
Led by: Mary McCarthy/Siobhan Molloy, joint Led by: Jim Walsh (FPRII), managing director
managing directors
Huband House, 16 Upper Mount Street, Dublin 2
Hambleden House, 19–26 Lower Pembroke Street, Dublin 2 T: 01 661 3515
T: 01 676 0168 W: www.walshpr.ie
info@walshpr.ie
Blog: WPRInperson
Employees: 11 Twitter: WalshPRireland
Established: 1989
Group: The Irish office of Weber Shandwick, which has offices Employees: 10
in 77 countries around the world and is part of The Interpublic Established: 1984
Group Affiliations/association: A partner in IPREX, member of Public
Association memberships: Public Relations Consultants Relations Consultants Association, all PR executives members
Association, Public Relations Institute of Ireland of Public Relations Institute of Ireland.
Speciality areas: Corporate communications, consumer mar- Turnover 2009 (approx): €1m
keting, digital communications, corporate communications, Speciality areas: Corporate and consumer media relations
crisis and issue management and technology PR (including training and evaluation), crisis management,
Major clients include: Samsung, IKEA, Tourism Ireland, Nestlé, corporate counselling, communications management, writing
Law Reform Commission, Warner Bros Home Entertainment, services
Irish Hotels Federation, Irish Medicines Board, Food Safety New business won in the last year: 20pc of turnover came from
Authority of Ireland new business in 2009
New business won in the last year: Warner Bros Home Key/standout recent campaigns: Pharmaton News, Top Toys for
Entertainment, Samsung Christmas, Porridge Season
Key/standout recent campaigns: Multi-tiered communications Recent accolades/awards: In recent years Walsh Public Relations
programme to open the new IKEA store for Dublin. Launch of has won three category awards and been shortlisted for nine
Samsung Solid Extreme mobile handset awards in the Excellence in Communications Awards
Recent accolades/awards: 18 national PR Excellence in
Communications awards from the PRCA as well as 14
commendations
Jim Walsh says: “PR has now become an integral management
discipline. There is no organisation in Ireland of any signifi-
Siobhan Molloy says: “It is an exciting time in PR where new cance which does not use the services of PR professionals
technologies and social media channels offer immense poten- either in-house or on an external basis. Another major change
tial to support and uplift traditional public relations tactics.” has been the increasing emphasis, particularly with multina-
tional organisations, on compliance standards.”
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