Daily Archives: November 18, 2009

The Apprentice Week Nine – What Happened?

  By Darren Byrne | November 18, 2009 - 12:31 pm | Apprentice, Apprentice, Featured Post, The Culch, TV
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Alternative Title: The Unfortunate Fall of The Great Breffmeister It was a sad day for fans of The Apprentice, as Breffny Morgan departed in a blaze of…whatever the opposite of glory is. The man was often the butt of jokes, made some terrible decisions, fell over and mumbled his way through pitches, but he was always entertaining and added something to this year’s show that elevated it above last year’s first Irish Apprentice. Before I go on with this week’s review, here’s Breffer’s finest moment:

Guest post: I’m a Zelebrity get me out of here (see what i did there?)

  By Kitty Catastrophe | November 18, 2009 - 11:50 am | I'm a Celebrity, The Culch, TV
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Yesterday Spider gave you the run down of what happened the first couple of nights of I’m a Celebrity. Today, we’ve been lucky enough to get Kitty and Tcup from Red Lemonade to give us their thoughts on the good and bad from this year’s show… - Darren Hi Culchies! So we’re both very cited to be reviewing for you guys even if it does involve watching I’m a zelebrity. We sort of took the bull by the horns and have written a review about the first two days just to get the ball rolling. We hope to maybe then do a weekly review of the show if that suits? I’ll write a bit and Kitty will right a wee bit too so here is our first installment. I’m a Zelebrity get me out of here, according to tcup and kitty And so it falls on myself and Kitty to … There’s more →

Star Wars: In Concert in Dublin

  By Darren Byrne | November 18, 2009 - 11:39 am | Gigs, Movies & TV, Music, The Culch
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I was never a massive Star Wars fan. Born in 1981, I think the Star Wars mania of the late 70s/early 80s just missed me. In fact, I think I only got around to watching them in sequence about three years ago. When the new wave of Star Wars films came out (Episodes 1, 2 and 3), I did watch them, but I was far from amazed. The poor acting and dodgy plot did not save them from being nothing more than interesting action films. Anthony Daniels and C-3PO’s head So, what do I think of the new Star Wars: In Concert? Well, I’m open minded. It’s described as a Massive multi-media event features stunning visuals, a live orchestra, choir and narration, so the sales pitch is fairly exciting. There’s no doubt that hearing John Williams music performed by a large live orchestra is a huge draw for me. Narrated … There’s more →

Cool but Ultimately Pointless - Social Media comes home

  By Niall | November 18, 2009 - 8:56 am | Games, The Culch, The Internet, TV
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After all the hype in the last few weeks about Facebook and Twitter integration coming to Xbox 360 it finally happened yesterday. Today Sony has launched a firmware upgrade to 3.10, which will allow Facebook trophy and game sync support. So Microsoft’s great coup lasted all of one day? Nice.