News & Events

CSL Hospitality, Irelands leading award winning Corporate Hospitality agency, has just signed contracts with two major events coming to Ireland this year.

News just in that retail monster Tesco are planning a move into ticket sales in the UK branches this month in a move that will no doubt have a profound effect on the ticket sales industry there. The question is will the idea travel across the Irish Sea?

The IRB have facilitated an extra 2 minutes for half time for each of the Rugby World Cup games to "give spectators more time to visit food and drink kiosks as well as toilet facilities". It also enables them to provide more ad breaks for inflating the value of the TV packages being sold around the world.

Is that what we get for beating England – it appears that criticism of the 43 days it took to complete is behind the decision to keep the event restricted to 10 countries and prevent the development of the game in places like Ireland, Kenya, the Netherlands and Canada.

Michel Platini hailed UEFA’s centralisation of media rights for national team matches after securing his second term as the president of European football’s governing body on Tuesday.

Todays draw for the quarter finals scheduled for April 7th and 14th has been completed and sees Porto take on Spartak Moskva, Benfica v PSV, Villarreal v Twente and Braga take on Dynamo Kyiv

Liverpool, Manchester City and Ranges all crashed out of the Europa League last night prior to today's draw for the quarter finals. Dublin, as venue for the final on May 18th, can expect to host the top two teams from an elite list of top European clubs.

This was Blatters response to allegations from the England camp of corruption in the now murky and tainted world of World Cup voting. (read on...)

The European Sponsorship Awards winners were announced at a ceremony in Amsterdam during the week and O2 and Irish rugby were award winners in the Business to Consumer category.

The IRFU came out from a crisis management meeting last night stating “it had made an error in its ticketing strategy”, an error which had nearly sent a majority of its clubs to the wall.