Defence Forces appoint Cawley Nea as advertising agency

The Defence Forces have appointed Cawley Nea as their advertising agency

The Defence Forces have appointed Cawley Nea as their advertising agency. Thirty-two agencies initially tendered and six made it to the final pitch including McConnells, McCann Erickson, Doherty and Javelin. Cawley Nea begins work immediately on the £2 million (E;2.54 million) recruitment campaign.

The poster advertising GI, Ireland's new gay magazine which shows two men in GAA jerseys kissing, has caused a predictable flurry of complaints to the Advertising Standards Authority. There's even one from the GAA's solicitors, saying the organisation objects to the use of the GAA in a poster advertising a magazine "which has as its object the promotion of a lifestyle which is alien to the lifestyle promoted by it [the GAA]". People can complain all they like because the campaign finishes this Sunday, weeks before the authority will even sit to consider what action it might take.

Bernice Harrison

Bernice Harrison

Bernice Harrison is an Irish Times journalist and cohost of In the News podcast