3aeeea1All my PR colleagues and friends call me Moggy PR. The name came about because I was always helping charities and small businesses with their PR in my spare time. The name just stuck. However, my actual name is Mary Gleeson. And now Moggy PR is a new practice, offering PR services to all sorts of SME, independent, indigenous businesses and service providers.

I worked in one of the largest PR agencies in Ireland (FleishmanHillard), was the media operations manager for the 2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games (the largest sporting event held in the world that year), and a senior press officer at the Health Service Executive. So it’s safe to say I have much experience of working in-house and in agency-land within both the public and private sectors.

I’m a full member of Public Relations Institute of Ireland (PRII) and my work has been recognised by my peers as follows:

  • Winner of the 2010 Awards for Excellence in PR (PRCA) for best public sector campaign publicising the HSE National Counselling Service
  • Finalist in European Communications Awards 2010 for best PR campaign UK and Ireland for the HSE National Counselling Service campaign
  • Winner of the 2009 Award for Excellence in PR (PRCA) for best public information campaign for HSE Focus on Fostering Week project
  • Finalist for the 2008 Marketing Institute of Ireland AIM All Ireland Marketing Awards in the PR Campaign category for Special Olympics World Summer Games ‘Road to China’ fundraising campaign
  • Finalist in the 2008 Awards for Excellence in PR (PRCA) in the Not-for-Profit category for Special Olympics 2007 World Summer Games in China media relations campaign

I also continued with my professional training and earned a masters diploma in marketing strategy with digital marketing from the IMI and UCC in 2013. Of course, within the ever evolving media world, I keep up-to-date with communications techniques and strategies but find that the fundamentals of PR are the same as they were when I first started out.

Stuff I like

Links to websites I like and work with:
www.appassionata.ie
www.theforesttrain.ie
www.orlawalsh.com
www.sophia.ie
www.theallergyexpo.ie
www.MyDealDoc.ie
www.greenaer.ie
www.crossrugbylegends.com
www.sportssurgeryclinic.com
www.rightathome.ie
www.marcosullivan.ie
www.theanaloguestudio.ie
www.specialolympics.ie
www.theconstantknitter.ie
www.murphysheehy.com