IQ – Irish Queenslander
Established as a glossy, colour print magazine in 2012, Irish Queenslander featured news, events, features and sports. Also founded by Mary Allen, an Irish, Australian and Scottish team worked on its publication, as well as well-known columnists, journalists, community group contributors and photographers. Still active as a website and social pages, it has more than 3,500 followers on Facebook.
Press articles covering the story of Irish Queenslander included an article in Cork’s daily newspaper the Evening Echo, a story in Australia’s national Irish magazine Tintean, and a full page story in the Sunshine Coast Daily newspaper.
Mary was also interviewed on The Irish Program on Radio 4EB, which you can listen to here; on the Ilija Dugandzic show (58,000 listeners) on 96five Family Radio which broadcasts to South East Queensland, you can listen to the interview here; and on the hugely popular Neil Prendeville Show on Cork’s 96FM and 103FM (78,000 listeners). You can listen to that interview here.
Queensland Irish Association Newsletter
In 2020 Mary was asked to become the Public Relations Officer of Queensland Irish Association. She set to work transforming the newsletter from a simple email into a colourful and lively online publication. She also redesigned all of Queensland Irish Association’s suite of ads and website to fit in with a sophisticated theme befitting the club. You can read the newsletter at the club’s website, below.
Queensland Irish Association is very fortunate to have Mary Allen as our Public Relations Officer. Mary has revolutionised how the Association has communicated with you, its Members, and with the whole Irish community.
Mary, a former newspaper editor, has set up a new Facebook group of QIA Friends and Supporters on Facebook to make it even easier to keep in touch with our Members.
In just the first day alone, 432 people joined, many of whom were people who had not previously been following QIA’s Facebook page.
— Jeff Spender, President, Queensland Irish Association
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