{"id":405056,"date":"2026-03-26T14:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T14:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/405056\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T14:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T14:37:12","slug":"undergrad-coin-toss-led-to-paul-hayes-setting-up-beachhut-pr-while-ryan-tubridy-went-to-rte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/405056\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergrad coin toss led to Paul Hayes setting up Beachhut PR, while Ryan Tubridy went to RT\u00c9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Tech PR guru shares the wisdom he has gleaned from a career working with creators and innovators\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Paul Hayes founder of Beachhut PR. Photo: Frank McGrath\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2d97a90c-794e-4f4a-89cd-daa5d93d6f50.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Paul Hayes founder of Beachhut PR. Photo: Frank McGrath<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When Paul Hayes and Ryan Tubridy were finishing up their arts degrees at UCD (including an in-depth study of Greek and Roman civilisation), both men decided their next career move with the toss of a coin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It was 1993, and the young graduates were considering options in politics and broadcasting, Hayes recalls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tech PR guru shares the wisdom he has gleaned from a career working with creators and innovators Paul&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,4771,11545,19,17,6501,1181,26666,455,30168,96534],"class_list":{"0":"post-405056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-fianna-fail","11":"tag-guinness","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-john-burns","15":"tag-rte","16":"tag-ryan-tubridy","17":"tag-technology-news","18":"tag-the-late-late-show","19":"tag-web-summit"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116295987725079731","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}