IT’S the biggest news in Irish broadcasting for years, but Pat Kenny’s departure from RTÉ was brewing for a long time.

Some of the leading lights of corporate twitterati gathered at UCC yesterday to discuss the most effective methods of representing a company in the networked world.

The Social Newsmakers conference — scheduled for University College Cork on Tuesday, Mar 5 — will officially mark the death of the traditional press release.

The Irish Examiner and Mediacontact.ie have joined forces with UCC to launch Cork’s inaugural Social Newsmaker conference.

BEANIES and bling are not a grand-mother “thing” but then neither is rap or hip hop – unless it’s a granny with fire in her belly who’s undergone a successful hip op.