{"id":1122,"date":"2014-11-04T09:45:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T09:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2014-11-13T07:30:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T07:30:55","slug":"a-conversation-with-fintan-drury-093-nov-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banter.test\/a-conversation-with-fintan-drury-093-nov-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"A conversation with Fintan Drury (092, Nov 2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/britespacedublin.com\/\">Brite Space Dublin<\/a>\u00a0is a week-long series of discussions and activities from Eventbrite that will explore the future of events and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/\">Banter<\/a>\u00a0will join the party on Monday November 17 for a conversation with sports agent and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/platinumonegroup.com\/\">Platinum One<\/a>\u00a0boss,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ie.linkedin.com\/pub\/fintan-drury\/4b\/32b\/51\">Fintan Drury<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Formerly a news and current affairs journalist at RTE, Fintan moved into PR and sports managements in the early 1990s. Platinum One has a formidable client list, especially when it comes to football and rugby representing the likes of Johnny Sexton, Gordon D\u2019Arcy, Sean O\u2019Brien and over 70 professional footballers in Britain. It\u2019s also the agency of choice for some of the world\u2019s biggest sports clubs when it comes to tours, training camps and friendly matches, has huge experience in the management of golf events (such as the 2006 Ryder Cup) and is deeply involved in many aspects of Gaelic games.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1123\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1123\" style=\"width: 451px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thisisbanter.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/2801_fdrury_i.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1123\" src=\"https:\/\/thisisbanter.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/2801_fdrury_i.jpeg\" alt=\"Platinum One's Fintan Drury\" width=\"451\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/2801_fdrury_i.jpeg 451w, https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/2801_fdrury_i-300x227.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/2801_fdrury_i-200x151.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/2801_fdrury_i-395x300.jpeg 395w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Platinum One&#8217;s Fintan Drury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We\u2019ll talk to Fintan about his role as an agent, his observations on the changing face of professional sport, his views on how the expectations of sportsmen and women have changed as more money comes into play, the places where he sees untapped potential, how he and his fellow agents deal with would-be partners and his thoughts on Ireland\u2019s relationship with professional sports events and sports tourism.<\/p>\n<p>Banter\u2019s conversation with Fintan Drury takes place on Monday November 17 at 6.30pm at 42 Dawson St., Dublin 2. Admission is free but tickets needs to be reserved in advance <a href=\"http:\/\/britespacedublin.com\">here<\/a>. Complimentary beer will be provided by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgargles.com\/\">McGargles Irish Family Brewers<\/a>\u00a0and there will also be complimentary non-alcoholic options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brite Space Dublin\u00a0is a week-long series of discussions and activities from Eventbrite that will explore the future of events and\u00a0Banter\u00a0will join the party on Monday November 17 for a conversation with sports agent and\u00a0Platinum One\u00a0boss,\u00a0Fintan Drury. Formerly a news and current affairs journalist at RTE, Fintan moved into PR and sports managements in the early &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banter.test\/a-conversation-with-fintan-drury-093-nov-2014\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A conversation with Fintan Drury (092, Nov 2014)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1253,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions\/1253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}