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You’re Fired! review

  By Niamh | September 25, 2009 - 3:24 pm | Apprentice, Apprentice, TV
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Monday night saw the airing of a much awaited first episode of The Apprentice which, I think it’s safe to say, we all enjoyed watching and live blogging. Darren has reviewed the first episode already. Straight after The Apprentice they had a new addition, a copy of the BBC2 Apprentice spin off show You’re Fired!, the BBC2 version being hosted by the amiable Adrian Chiles, the TV3 version being hosted by Brendan O’Connor. I’ll hold my hand up right now and say that I am not a fan of Mr. O’Connor. Quite the opposite, he gets under my skin and annoys me by his mere presence on the screen. But my love for all things Apprentice, and in the interest of research and fairness, I sat through the whole half hour of You’re Fired!

The Apprentice Week One – What Happened?

  By Darren Byrne | September 24, 2009 - 10:47 pm | Apprentice, Apprentice, The Culch, TV
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It’s no secret, I’ve been looking forward to this year’s Irish Apprentice. I love the build up, the backbiting, the Alpha-male aggression and the subtle nitpicking among the girls. It’s an exciting show to watch and Monday night’s series opener was no different. In fact, it raised the stakes. We followed the show with a live blog on Culch.ie/apprentice and I was overwhelmed with the amount of people who pitched in with their thoughts on the show. Throughout the show, we had 197 people click through to follow the liveblog and we amassed nearly 1,000 comments. Granted, a lot of them were merely reiterating what a nutcase Samantha, the Tallaght music teacher, truly is. So, before I get knee deep in Apprentice week one details, let me thank everyone for participating and making the show even funnier to watch [Comment From Rick] My dad asked me what a Liveblog was. … There’s more →

The Contestants

  By Darren Byrne | September 20, 2009 - 8:20 pm | Apprentice, The Culch, TV
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Here is a short biog of each of the 14 new contestants for this year’s Apprentice Ireland. Over the coming weeks, we’ll have a look at each one in more detail…well, we’ll look at whoever is left. With an average age of 27, the youngest is 22 and the oldest is 33, but who will become Bill Cullen’s new Apprentice? Aoiffe Madden is a 25 year old Galway girl and currently works as the Marketing/Business Development Executive for Clerys Department Store in Dublin. Her role involves developing monthly marketing strategies and promotions and overseeing the in-store and window displays. Aoiffe holds a BA (Hons) in Journalism and Visual Media from Griffith College Dublin and a postgraduate diploma in PR and Event Management. And yes, she does spell her name with two Fs. Breffny Morgan is a 22 year old Harvard graduate from Cork who returned back home to Ireland … There’s more →

Bill Cullen’s apprentice candidates get glammed up for the boardroom

  By lecraic | September 20, 2009 - 4:24 pm | Apprentice, Apprentice, TV
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Saturday’s Irish Daily Mail had a front page teaser reading ‘Exclusive : Meet the new apprentices”. Page 6 and 7 of the main newspaper had a large group photograph and a couple of paragraphs of text. The free ‘You’ magazine inside the paper had the real detail of all the candidates – or so I thought. The 6 page spread in the glossy magazine, had all the female candidates glammed up with a decent bio and mini interview with each one included. As you can see from the photo above, the 7 guys got a passport size shot with a the bare minimum of detail. This leads me to question if any of these women should even be in the competition. In my eyes, they have zero credibility for a €100,000 job in the world of business after signing up to become clothes horses for a photoshoot in a glossy mag. Or maybe I’m … There’s more →