Archive for September, 2008
Louis Walsh’s new girl band lineup
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Update 8.30pm 30th September: Leanne Moore confirmed as NOT in the line up.
Update 8.40pm 29th September : Quite possibly the Mirror (and therefore this post) has jumped the gun and this lineup may have put Leanne Moore in, when it should be Leigh Learmont. Will update again when more information to hand.
Lous Walsh’s new €1 million girl band lineup was revealed in the Mirror today.
Are these the new Girl’s Aloud? From left to right they are:
Sharon Condon: Finalist in the RTE talent search competition, You’re A Star. She was hotly tipped to win the competition outright but was beaten by fellow band member Leanne Moore. 23 year old Sharon lives in Co. Kildare but is originally from Dublin.
Corinna Duran: 22 year old Corrina is being dubbed as the “Nadine” of the band – with striking good looks and a powerful voice.
Jodi Albert: Jodi, at 25, is the oldest member of the band and is well known for her role in Hollyoaks. She is currently engaged to Kian Egan, one of the Westlife boys.
Kasey Smith: 18 year old Casey is the youngest member of the group and has done some fashion modelling. She is from Dublin.
The band’s first single will be released before the end of the year. No name for the band yet – suggestions on a postcard….
What if the world could vote?
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The Economist are trying to determine what way the world would vote in the US elections.
I think, not surprisingly, it is looking like a landslide for Obama at the moment – look at all the countries in blue. Ireland has 8 electoral vote, and of the votes cast so far the result is 16% McCain and 84% Obama.
The most striking thing for me about the world map is all the white – the countries that have not registered enough votes for the colour of their country to change either red or blue. Regrettably, it’s all too familiar division on the world map.
Voting closes on November 1st, when a winner will be declared. Doubt if Paddy Power will take bets on the result.
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Apprentice bits ahead of Week 2
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The first show in the season pulled in 237,000 for TV3. The Herald said on Thursday that:
“New figures show that the Bill Cullen-fronted show, which is expected to be the station’s greatest success story, only scored half as many viewers as Who Do You Think You Are? on RTE.”
The RTE1 programme took 471,000 viewers. A comment during the live blog last week pointed out that RTE shifted the start of Raw from 9.00 to 9.55 and showed an old CSI instead. They are repeating that this week, which is perhaps a sign that RTE know they won’t win on ratings in a head to head with The Apprentice. No doubt the viewing figure will be watched closely to see if the interest is sustained over the remaing 11 weeks.
Live Blog of this weeks episode is happenig over at Deborah’s place, so keep an eye out there and join in the discussion.
The house where the Apprentice Candidates were holed up for the duration of the filming is a closely guarded secret. The Herald (again). got a good look at the plush surrounding.
Local newspapers report on their Apprentice hopefuls. Orla McAdam, Ronan Whitty.
Andrea Roche will make a guest appearance and the show bosses hope she will add “some glamour” to the mix.
Bill’s lookee-likee, Mark O’Rourke is getting great encouragement from his mates on his Bebo page. Latest comment is classic – reproduced verbatim below.
“alright mark seen that you where on the apprentice thingy you’ve come a long way from selling crack to kids to selling 5 banana’s for 50 on moore street you should of fit right in with the big gay head on ya lol.(maybe not since the place is flooded with them imports and tiddley winks)
Sure I’m only jokin about the big gay head thing but them kids will never be right after that dodgy batch.
Anywho a big congrats from the Kelly’s in Oz and we hope ya do well”
There’s no mistaking, this version of the Apprentice is uniquely Irish 
This week’s header image on le craic
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This jumped out off the flickr pages. It’s a view of Belfast from the Cavehill Country Park, the largest open space in Belfast. A magnificent vista.
There’s a really nifty 3D view from the same spot on ispyni.com
Photo by etrusia_uk and used under the terms of a CC license.
