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Marketing executive Aisling Harmey will head the project, which will offer small and medium sized companies the chance to produce their own professional television ad made - and have it placed on Irish TV channels - ALL for well under €10,000!

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Sean Rocks will MC a key event at the West Cork Literary Festival this weekend.

The Celebration of Those Who Have Gone Before will take place on Sunday 3rd July at 8.30pm in the Maritime Hotel, Bantry. 

Rocks, the presenter of Arena on RTÉ Radio 1 (Monday - Friday 7.30pm), will introduce special guests Senator David Norris, Pauline McLynn, Niamh Cusack, Peter Sheridan and Tom Hickey. 

They will read from their own favourite dead author. This will be a fun and light-hearted evening with readings from the best practitioners of the art going back through the centuries. 

We will also be auctioning a painting, Fireland, donated by Cork artist Carol Hodder. 

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Ryan Giggs and the super injunction is a story you'll all be familiar with. But now an Irish footballer is at the centre of a similar storm.

TV3's Ireland AM addressed the issue this week.  In studio to give their views on the power of social networking over super injunctions was TalentBase legal expert John O'Keeffe, and Sheena McGinley, from entertainment.ie.

WATCH JOHN O'KEEFFE ON IRELAND AM

READ ENTERTAINMENT.IE ON THE ISSUE

RTE's Evanne Ní Chuilinn has been making her own headlines this week - by revealing that she practices what she preaches!

The Kilkenny native, who presents the sports bulletin on the Six One News on RTÉ, is still lining out herself with the Portobello Camogie Club in Dublin.

The all-rounder also plays basketball with Springfield in Tallaght.

In this interview with the GAA website, BreakingThrough.ie, she reveals that Katie Taylor is her dream playing partner...

http://www.breakingthrough.ie/2011/06/evanne-ni-chuilinn/

Roisin Ni Thomain has been announced as an adjudicator for the final of the 24th Glinsk Song Contest in Galway next month.

Roisin, a graduate of NUI Galway and Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, is best known as the presenter of TG4's An Jig Gig, but she is also seen regularly on RTE.

Glinsk Song Contest judges will mark each of 13 songs according to three key ingredients...

1.Commercial potential of the song

2.Originality of the Lyrics and music

3.The degree of musical accomplishment

Glinsk is approx. 3 miles from Ballymoe and 7 miles from Glenamaddy.  The song contest is in Glinsk Community Centre on the night of Sunday, July 3rd.

Ireland will play the USA in the quarter-finals of the Champions Challenge at Belfield, Dublin, this Thursday.

Wins over India and Azerbijan and a draw with Spain have put Ireland comfortably top of pool B.

The event is for teams ranked 9th - 16th in the world.  Ireland's women, currently ranked 15th, are competing for honours with the USA, Azerbaijan, India, Spain, Japan, South Africa and Scotland.

Liam Molloy, General Manager ESB Electric Ireland, said that the ESB Electric Ireland FIH Champions Challenge I is a fantastic opportunity for the Irish teams to test themselves in front of a home crowd, against other nations who will also be fighting to qualify for the Olympics over the next 12 months. 

National Women s Coach, Gene Muller said "We will come into this tournament on the backdrop of a period of hard training so we will want to play well to do our preparations justice. All the teams here are very close in world rankings so there will be no opportunities for us to take anyone lightly."

Tickets start at 5 euro and can be purchased on line at www.hockey.ie or on the day of the event at the ticket office located beside the National Hockey Stadium, UCD.

Ireland's men, meanwhile, are also in action at Belfield - playing a 4-nations tournament against China, France and Pakistan.

TalentBase has produced the 32-page souvenir programme for the event.

Go on - get hooked on hockey!

Calling all alumni of the Rathmines & Rathgar Musical Society...

RTE's Myles Dungan is researching a book on the society, which will be 100 years old in 2013.  

The R&R staged its first production - Gilbert & Sullivan's Mikado - in December 1913. 

Your stories, memories and photos are sought - and could appear in print!  

Email info@talentbase.ie

Evanne Ni Chuilinn is to be the guest in the hot seat on Raidió na Gaeltachta's Nótaí Ceoil on Friday June 24.

The RTE star will be telling host Fiachna O'Braonáin about her love for the year 2001, chatting about her life, and playing her favourite music from that era.  

For more, check out this week's RTE Guide, page 84.  

Sean Rocks, fresh from the heady success of hosting Queen Elizabeth at Dublin Castle, is now preparing to meet "the best President America never had."

The RTE Radio star will be doing a public interview with Hollywood actor Martin Sheen - of "The West Wing" - on Sunday, July 10 as part of Galway Film Fleadh.

The Monaghan man won plaudits for his hosting of the presidential dinner when President McAleese hosted an evening event for Britain’s Queen on May 18.

The Matchmaker

Avril Mulcahy

Meet Avril Mulcahy - champion matchmaker!

A Tipperary native, Avril has been organising singles events and matchmaking eligible men and women for as long as she can remember, travelling the world hosting singles events - dinner dating, tall men dating, speed dating… you name it!

Avril first came to prominence on the Australian version of Take Me Out - and is now an entrepreneur, a PR consultant, a NLP Life Coach and the founder of Singlelista, the online dating advice and events forum.

Seen regularly on Irish TV - including TV3’s Ireland AM and RTE’s Saturday Night Show - Avril is best known for her 40 dates in 40 days expedition, which was the first ever-Lenten expedition of its kind in the world. 40 dates was Avril’s quest to gain as much knowledge as possible about the singles scene in Ireland and perhaps find Mr. Right.  The journey was chronicled in a daily blog and featured in press both national and international.  The expedition culminated in a massive charity singles party in Aid of the HOPE Foundation MC’d by Avril herself. 

Avril, who has a BCOMM degree from UCC and a Masters in Public Relations from DIT, worked in PR in Ireland and Australia before gaining experience in the professional development and coaching industry. After returning to Ireland last year, Avril completed her training as a NLP Life Coach.

She is much in demand as an MC for events of all kinds.

CHECK OUT the TalentBase Singlelista page...