# asai - Friday 6 September, 2019
Complainants considered references to the word to be offensive and unnecessary.
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# asai - Thursday 5 September, 2019
No indication was given in the advertisement that the amount of money saved by purchasing the car was variable.
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# asai - Tuesday 20 August, 2019
The ASAI said new guidelines will help to ensure certain marketing terms are not misleading to consumers.
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# asai - Wednesday 26 June, 2019
A complaint about a radio ad for the newspaper was made to the ASAI.
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Smyths Homevalue shared the video on Facebook to promote Black Friday last year.
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# asai - Friday 26 April, 2019
A woman reported two Facebook posts relating to the Creme Egg Hunting Season.
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# asai - Thursday 25 April, 2019
One of the offending posts featured a sharing pack of Mighty Munch and a message from a “sound spud” who said he would not be sharing.
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The ASAI determined that the advertisement should not reappear in the current format.
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# asai - Thursday 7 March, 2019
One influencer claimed that a gut-health product stopped their irritable bowel syndrome.
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# asai - Thursday 28 February, 2019
Pat Phelan’s cosmetic clinic company ‘strongly repudiated’ a complaint about a social media post.
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# asai - Tuesday 18 December, 2018
Dealz argued the ad was evocative of the Diet Coke window cleaning ad.
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# asai - Monday 17 December, 2018
The offending ad featured a bottle in an ice bucket and two champagne glasses containing “a yellow toned liquid”.
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# asai - Wednesday 31 October, 2018
Four people complained to the authority that it was impossible for hair from a mink, a wild animal, to be obtained without cruelty.
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# asai - Tuesday 30 October, 2018
One of the ads failed to make clear that it extended the length of broadband contracts and increased the price.
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The text also claimed that a breast massage could increase the size of breasts and prevent sagging.
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# asai - Thursday 30 August, 2018
The complaint was lodged over a Facebook ad for a ‘Snow Rave’ in The Pulse Venue in Letterkenny.
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The advert prompted 64 complaints.
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Complainants thought the advert “encouraged drunken behaviour”.
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# asai - Thursday 5 July, 2018
# asai - Tuesday 26 June, 2018
Rosie Connolly used a photoshopped image to promote a Rimmel product.
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The ASAI received 15 complaints about the TV advert because it “lacked information on the whereabouts of the boy’s biological dad”.
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The complainant said it could be construed the man was trying to take his own life.
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# asai - Sunday 29 April, 2018
The total number of complaints increased nearly 60% last year.
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# asai - Saturday 14 April, 2018
The ASAI held an event this week for bloggers and influencers.
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# asai - Wednesday 7 March, 2018
The coupon company issued an offer for a beauty ‘mystery gift’ which failed to specify how many items a customer would receive.
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# asai - Tuesday 6 March, 2018
The ASAI also upheld a complaint against Lidl in relation to a competition it ran.
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# asai - Monday 18 December, 2017
In order to avail of the €1 add-on deal, customers would have to purchase a broadband and TV bundle.
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Outdated fee information had been listed on UCD’s School of Medicine website.
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# asai - Saturday 23 September, 2017
A complaint about a radio ad for the same clinic was also upheld.
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# asai - Friday 22 September, 2017
AIB was found to be in breach of the advertisers’ code.
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# asai - Thursday 21 September, 2017
It did not, however, find the ad was gender stereotyping or that the images were inappropriate.
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# asai - Friday 28 July, 2017
Three times the amount of complaints have been received so far in 2017 compared to all of last year.
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# asai - Friday 21 July, 2017
A report was released this week calling for stronger regulation of adverts in the UK.
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# asai - Saturday 24 June, 2017
The Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland (ASAI) made the ruling against Almond Homeopathy this week.
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# asai - Thursday 18 May, 2017
It followed a complaint over salmon from Scotland that bore the group’s logo.
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# asai - Friday 5 May, 2017
The “classic and elegant” jumper cost €16.99.
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# asai - Thursday 4 May, 2017
Three had claimed that it had the superior data offer, and that Meteor’s advert was misleading.
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# asai - Sunday 26 February, 2017
Insuremymotorbike.ie was taken down after the complaint was lodged.
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# asai - Wednesday 22 February, 2017
The complaint related to Lidl’s InisMara brand of fish products.
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# asai - Tuesday 21 February, 2017
The ASAI made the ruling today.
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