Competition: Win a Sony Ericsson W595

*** COMPETITION CLOSED *** Thank you to everyone who entered. Emmett has won the Sony Ericsson W595. Congratulations! *** Happy Christmas everyone!!! Happy Christmas to all our Culch.ie readers. As part of our recent award as Connector.ie Tribe of the Year, we were presented with this lovely Sony Ericsson W595, with a ‘Tattoo’ design by Ed Hardy. To celebrate our award and to thank everyone who supported Culch.ie over the last 9 months, we are offering the phone up for competition. The Sony Ericsson W595 is an attractive slide phone with the excellent Walkman 3.0 music player. The phone comes with FM radio, a 3.2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, 3G with HSDPA, and “shake control” which lets you choose a tune at the flick of a wrist and the ‘SensMe’ feature means you can create playlist according to your mood, apparently. The exclusive Sony Ericsson W595 Ed Hardy edition is inspired … There’s more

Michael Flatley’s Nemises has arrived at last

After saying goodbye to X-factor post Jedward, I moved my panel-judged reality competition needs to TG4′s An Jig Gig; the finale of which is on this Sunday at 8.30pm. If you’re thinking Irish or Irish dancing is not your scene, you’re mistaken. Not only is this quality competition telly, some of the dancing in it is amazing, in particular (my favourite) Irish Beats. Irish Beats are fascinatingly good. I know feck all about Irish dancing but I know these three young lads are brilliant to watch. They’re modern and novel, they dance with serious power and precision and they have the look. The week before last they danced to Daft Punk and last Sunday they danced to Snow Patrol - check this out: