Launch of our new cocktail bar on April 22nd
Work those heels and take a walk upstairs to experience our brand new cocktail bar. Our official opening takes place next month so we have been busy creating and photographing 37 cocktails for our brand new menu. Don’t worry we did have plenty of help tasting!
To launch our new cocktail bar are delighted to have Suzanne Jackson aka SoSueMe reveal her namesake cocktail, which she will shake and stir on Friday 22nd April at our official launch.
Suzanne Jackson is one of Ireland’s leading fashion and beauty bloggers!
Suzanne created SoSueMe.ie, a one stop shop for celebrity fashion, beauty and lifestyle in July 2010 and since the success of the her ‘little’ blog has succeeded all expectations being voted one of the most influential fashion websites in Ireland, and Ireland’s Best Blogger with Stellar Magazine in 2015.
While we can only cater for 100 people for this exclusive event you can follow our hashtag #skeffcocktails across Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Follow our Snapchat story by adding us theskeff. We will also be giving away some VIP places to our social media fans to stay tuned!
The red carpet will be waiting for our fans as we invite you to decide on your favourite cocktail.
The Skeff Tag Team Campaign gets you home safely
Galway’s Skeff Late Bar & Kitchen ‘Tag Team’ is a key tool for young people at busy times in the city
Tag Team is our campaign which is aimed at students encouraging them to set up a tag team when out socialising. ‘Tag Team’ was the brainchild of our General Manager Brian O’Toole who says that increasing incidents of young people failing to return home after nights out prompted his staff to do something.
Our staff are mainly young adults and like all of us, they are affected by the perceived rise in missing persons especially after nights out. Social media has raised the profile of these cases but I found that it was a regular topic of conversation during staff meetings and generally during the working day. So I asked, ‘what can we do?’
Tag Team is open to students from all over Ireland are they are encouraged to get involved in our campaign.
Students’ welfare
Amy Kelly, GMIT Students’ Union Welfare Officer says:
We think this campaign is a great idea as it gets students talking about not just going out but how they’re going to get home. That’s a very important conversation to have and this campaign seeks to simply spark the conversation that will lead to more awareness around how your night out ends. I would appeal to all students to get their tag team on and make “who are you taking home tonight” a conversation starter.
Jimmy McGovern, NUI, Galway Students’ Union Welfare Officer has also added his voice to the Tag Team campaign.
From the Students’ Union perspective, a student’s safety is our number one priority. Students walking home alone at night or venturing off from their group, is a time where they are most vulnerable. So we are urging students to make safety their number one priority, and to look out for each other when socialising at night. It is important to never assume that friends got home safely on their own, always find a way to contact them and ask. The Tag Team Facebook App is a fantastic initiative to ensuring students are in contact with one another as a means of returning home safely.
Mind your mental health
Marie Whyte, Console’s Counselling Manager says:
I think this is a positive campaign and will create awareness around the importance of not only keeping yourself safe, but to also look out for the welfare of your friend(s). Many people who self harm are under the influence of alcohol/drugs. Our 24-hour Suicide Freephone Helpline is available to anyone who might like to talk to a professional counsellor on 1800 247 247.
How to set up your tag team
- Log onto The Skeff Bar Facebook App
- Share it on your Facebook profile and tag the friends you want to be part of your team
- By signing up to the Facebook App you are entered into a draw to win two tickets to Sea Sessions
- Students are encouraged to discuss nights out with your chosen tag team and plan ahead who you will go home with so everyone gets home safely
- Join the Tag Team Thunderclap campaign which shares public safety messages around safe nights out
- Be an advocate for the campaign. Update your Facebook profile photo to the Tag Team campaign logo and spread the message with your friends.
12 steps to getting home safely
- Plan your trip home as much as you plan your night out.
- Pre-plan who you will go home with and make a date to get home safe – get tagging!
- Keep enough money for a taxi home.
- Have a taxi number on speed dial, pre-book it or Hailo.
- Make sure your phone is fully charged before you go out.
- Don’t walk around the city on your own – tag along with a friend.
- Drink responsibly and know your limits when it comes to alcohol.
- Don’t get separated from your tag team.
- If in doubt and on your own, call a friend, family member and stay in a public place until they arrive.
- In the event that you get separated from your tag friend it may help to have pre-arranged a place / time to meet or send a text before leaving to go home.
- Leave a spare front door key with a friend.
- Promote the campaign on your social networks. Be smart like Bill!
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Who says you can’t be trendy when you were born in 1850?
So we’ve been around since 1850 but we’ve always been trendy. But this year we want to be trending, online that is. So we embarked on a digital makeover. First we re-designed our logo – voila! What do you think?
Then we partnered with Digital Training Institute to deliver a digital marketing strategy with millennials in mind. We asked Joanne Sweeney-Burke the importance of digital strategy for businesses?
Think and act like a millennial
We live in a super social world where real-time is more important than ‘what has happened.’ The Skeff Late Bar & Kitchen is a hive of activity and #skefflife is a hashtag which tells the real-time story of their customers, their team and those partners that they work with. There are so many stories to tell in the walls of such an historic and significant building in Galway’s Eyre Square. So I intend to unlock them and bring their social scene alive on the social web.
Get social with us!
So we are now on Snapchat (theskeff), Instagram, Facebook ,Twitter, YouTube and TripAdvisor. Whatever social network you’re on, let’s chat. We intend to build up our online community so we stay social in between we see each other in real life.
We believe fans deserve a VIP experience
Then we asked our General Manager Brian O’Toole what he could do for our loyal customers (we prefer fans) and he said lots.
Of course our fans are very important peeps (VIPs) so we launched Skeff Rewards which offers exclusive access to our events, earned points for money spent in any the bar or restaurant as well as VIP experiences. Simply sign up by entering your email address on our home page and call in for your Skeff Rewards card which you swipe with every purchase.
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