Daily Archives: September 27, 2010

Competition Closed: Unislim and The Apprentice

  By Darren Byrne | September 27, 2010 - 11:00 pm | Apprentice, Apprentice, Celebs, Competitions, Featured Post, Gossip, Movies & TV
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*** Competiton Closed *** *** Congratulations to Aideen O’Flaherty and Jenny O’Connor *** Week Two of this year’s Apprentice saw the departure of Elev8′s Project Manager David O’Byrne. Elev8 had so much wrong with their task this week and with no strong leadership, he was the obvious choice. In this week’s task Unislim and TodayFM set the teams the challenge of designing an original and exciting healthy eating menu. They then had to plan a media campaign worth €10,000 and write and record a radio advert. Elev8 started very strongly but dipped in many areas, while Fusion were up and down throughout, but the team, led by Nagaite, won out in the end. Your very own Irish slimming club, Unislim, are the first weight loss club ever to appear on The Apprentice. Unislim have just launched their new website, Unislim.ie, and starting tomorrow, they will have prizes and goodies … There’s more →

The Apprentice Liveblog Week Two

  By Darren Byrne | September 27, 2010 - 8:30 pm | Apprentice, Apprentice, Movies & TV, TV
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Welcome to the second of this year’s Apprentice Liveblogs. If you’re unfamiliar with liveblogs, it’s simply a place to chat about the show while we’re watching. It’s one big moderated chat room for The Apprentice. You can follow it below on Culch.ie or you can launch a stand alone window and follow it there. It’s simple and fun, so please come join us. Also, after the show, I’ll be announcing the winner of last week’s competition and will be announcing this week’s competition in conjunction with Unislim, who are this week’s challenge sponsor. Unislim have just launched their new website and will have loads of prizes and goodies to give away from tomorrow to celebrate their launch and sponsorship of The Apprentice.. The Apprentice Ireland 2010 Week Two Click Here to Launch in a Separate Window

Competition Closed: Nostalgia Week Day 1: Eilish’s Memories

  By Éilish Burke | September 27, 2010 - 12:22 pm | Nostalgia Week, The Culch
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In the first of our Nostalgia Week posts, here’s are some childhood memories extracted from the spluttering neurons shooting blanks in Eilish’s mind. - Sinead TELLY Pajo’s Junkbox It’s Saturday morning and you’re jacked up on Cornflakes with 15 spoons of Siucra. There’s a punk, anarchist rat with a pink mohawk presenting a childrens’ TV show on RTE 2. Alongside him is yer wan who played the nun in the ‘Lent’ edition of Fr. Ted (most recently seen as a cleaning lady in a Meteor ad. One time I saw this woman having coffee in Avoca and was almost starstruck). Pajo was bad-ass. He wore a leather jacket and (if I’m not making this up) may even have had a piercing or two. I can’t confirm this because THERE ARE NO PHOTOS OF HIM ANYWHERE ON THE INTERWEBS. Anyway, he was amazing and a reminder of the time RTE may … There’s more →

Nostalgia Week

  By Sinead Keogh | September 27, 2010 - 12:21 pm | Featured Post, Nostalgia Week, The Culch
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Happy Nostalgia Week! Is that a real thing? Well, if Guinness can have Arthur’s Day, Culch can have Nostalgia Week and while you probably can’t get off work for it, for the next five days we invite you to be retro with us. What does that involve exactly? Well, a certain announcement about 10 days ago made some of us (me) feel shockingly old. The Den…Dempsey’s Den, D’Arcy’s Den, Den TV or whatever it was to you…is no more. After 25 years it’s gone, cancelled, out with the old. If you remember The Den you are officially the holder of a memory of a thing past that will never be discovered by a new generation of kids…which is really very sad if you actually can’t remember a world before The Den. How’s that worth celebrating and being retro? Well here’s the thing. I was an 80s and 90s child and … There’s more →

Culchie Calling Cards - Gigs - September 27 - October 3 2010

  By Will | September 27, 2010 - 12:01 am | Gigs, Music, The Culch
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GIGS Guillemots Frontman Fyfe Dangerfield sounds like he escaped form a 1940′s adventure series rvaling Biggles but he performs. After his band’s “Red” album he started working on his solo debut release called Fly Yellow Moon. He is a fast worker and recorded the ten tracks in five days in the Urchin Studios, London. Anyway, with the album recorded, the promotion tour starts and he plays the Speakeasy, Belfast in Saturday October 2nd and The Academy, Dublin on Sunday 3rd. In support of their False Priest album of Montreal are playing Tripod, Dublin on Sunday October 3rd. Of Montreal is an odd bird of a group, with their frontman Kevin Barnes showing up on the children’s show Yo Gabba Gabba, in collaborations with Spike Jonze, on stage spanking pigs with Susan Sarandon, and even spontaneously performing six songs nude during a concert in Las Vegas. No guarantee of spankings or … There’s more →