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Irish Apprentice episode 1 to 3
Posted by: | CommentsOooh, look what I stumbled on. Someone has the first 3 episodes of the Irish Apprentice on the internet, in AVI format which can be downloaded. That’s handy. Bet that took them ages to do.
Apprentice bits ahead of Week 4
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This week’s live blog of the Apprentice is being hosted by Every Day is Election Day – so make sure to tune in to the show and the live blog at 9pm tomorrow!
Viewing figures for the show are going up. Monday’s show pulled in 276,000 viewers which is up from the 237,000 that tuned in the first week. Considering it is up against the 9 O’Clock news on RTE1, that’s good going.
The BCI received a complaint about product placement following Monday’s show. Don’t know the rules about product placement but this seems like the action of a crankypants.
Someone wrote a letter to the Herald on Tuesday but I think they are naive to think the producers would offer a chance to someone that hadn’t some sort of business background already under their belt.
“I had been looking forward to watching The Apprentice, but was under the impression that the candidates (like Bill Cullen) would come from humble backgrounds.
So I was disappointed to discover that most of them had attended college and already had well-paid jobs.
Surely this rather defeats the purpose of offering a chance to someone?”
Quarehawk asks is Bill Cullen a mental case? You decide 
The search continues tomorrow on TV3 at 9pm. Be there or be…
Irish Apprentice Watch – Week 3 – The one with “do you want fries with that”
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Week three review by Ian Walsh
After 2 wins by the girls at team Pheonix and 2 men fired, its time for a bit of a mix up this week a mixture of guys and girls on each team. Exciting stuff ! Avril steps up to the mark to lead team Phoenix and Shane for team Dynamo. With the teams and project managers in place, the task is revealed to be managing a branch of Supermacs : O’Connell Street (Dublin) and Eyre Square (Galway). The objective of the task : maximise profit.
Any logical person would say ‘oh without a doubt the O’Connell Street branch will win’, but that wasn’t the case at all. Team Phoenix were very, very poor and lost by almost €1000. They were literally like headless chickens and had no master plan. Team Dynamo put some effort in and had Galway celebs on hand to create some buzz in the form of county hurler Joe Canning & the Galway Rose. Paddy O’ Dea gave a motivational speech to the staff in Galway at the start of the day, and it was they who were the real stars.
In the boardroom it proved to be third time unlucky for Ronan as he was fired for his poor performance. Bill gave Avril a chance because she was a ‘warrior’ and fought. They were all infected with the phrase. The word hasn’t been used so much since Braveheart was filmed. At the end of the shakedown, Ronan became the third candidate and the third male to be fired. This was one of my favourite episodes so far in the series.
There was a great quote from Fiona Looney in the Daily Mail – ‘If there’s a ballroom dancing task anytime soon, the girls are in trouble’.
Apprentice bits ahead of Week 3
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This week’s live blog of the Apprentice is happening over at The National Lottie – be sure to fire up the browser and join in with the commentary!
Don’t forget to check back here for the review by Ian Walsh as well.
Brian Purcell, the really serious looking right hand man of Cúchulainn, reckons that the eventual winner of the €100,000 job will become a hangman.
Cúchulainn reckons the bank bailout package will all come good in the end and he should know as he’s lived through rough times since he became a multi-millionaire. He’s gone through 5 recessions and we should just work our way out of it. Where the jobs will come from isn’t specified
“He [the Taoiseach] seems to have ticked all the boxes and has done it over a period of time. They didn’t rush into the panic station that the crisis was creating. They stood back and took a good view; and from what I can see, they’ve ticked the boxes. I’m sure that something will come up that we weren’t aware of, but overall it’s a tremendous package which gives great comfort to the banks and to the people they’re going to try to borrow for. There is money out there, whether it’s in Dubai or Russia or China. There’s lots of money out there, and I think this is going to stabilise the economy”.
The latest candidate to be fired, Derek Ramsey, has a go at the producers, the other candidates and the universe for what he perceives as unfair portrayal on the show. Thems the breaks Derek – you must have known that the bad tv people would edit things that might not make you look good.
Didn’t know Ronan Whitty was of Whitford House Hotel fame. Wexford People report he is now working for Aer Lingus, so he obviously doesn’t win then?
It was rumoured but it seems to be coming – an Irish Dragons’ Den – also produced by Shinawil and to be fronted by Richard Curran.
UK Apprentice is getting an airing in the US on CNBC – wonder will TV3’s version get seen overseas as well?
Irish Apprentice Watch – Week 2 – The one where the lads get all laddish
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Week two review by Ian Walsh
We get more of an insight into the candidates this week, which is why I am always sad for the person who is fired on week one. They are generally not remembered. For those of you who cannot remember who was fired already it was David Neary.
Launching a video game should be easy, or so I thought, especially in this world of modern technology & games we should know everything there is to know. If in doubt though Fight Club must never be used as the 6 lads proved last night, they suffered a knockout punch of their own by using Adidas branding when launching an EA Game. I’m sure Adidas was only delighted of course but the man from EA wasn’t best pleased.
The lads just cocked it up again, there were just too many mistakes, from Stuart being controlling, bitching, & Derek with his Adidas signs which doomed him into getting fired. Mark (the team leader last week), was yet again a high performer even though he was only in the boardroom by default, for taking Ronan in last week.
Mark is certainly the candidate I would tip to win because he is hard working and focused so far. He’s just been let down by the others.
It’s tough when up against feisty girls who never give up as they made it 2 wins out of 2 before the shuffle up next week which well really make or break the candidates.
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