Celebrity Bainisteoir - Aoibhinn Ni Shuilleabhain (Paperback)

Chapters: Aoibhinn Ni Shuilleabhain. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 29. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The first season of Celebrity Bainisteoir was broadcast in Ireland on RTE One from 23 March 2008. It was won by the radio and television presenter Marty Whelan who replaced Fianna Fail TD Mary O'Rourke as bainisteoir of Maryland, County Westmeath, during the series. Whelan's team beat solicitor Gerald Kean's Cork team, Mayfield, in the final at Parnell Park on 16 May that year. The other six bainisteoiri were television presenter Bazil Ashmawy, model Glenda Gilson, comedian Jon Kenny, journalist and civil rights campaigner Nell McCafferty, panellist Aoibhinn Ni Shuilleabhain and politician-turned bookmaker Ivan Yates. RTE later described the first series of Celebrity Bainisteoir as having "brought the worlds of celebrity and GAA club football crashing together," citing the unexpected early departure of Mary O'Rourke, Nell McCafferty's speech in which she informed her team that the roads were "lined with coffins" when they were young due to the violence in Northern Ireland and Gerald Kean's request for help from celebrity clients who flew in on helicopters as memorable events from the series. The series was produced by Animo Television's Jean Devlin. Eight bainisteoiri competed in the first season Celebrity Bainisteoir. Bazil Ashmawy is an actor and co-presenter of the RTE Two programme, How Low Can You Go? and is described as having "behaved badly" in several international cities. Glenda Gilson is a model and television presenter described as having one of the most recognisable (and photographed) faces in Ireland. Constantly photographed for newspapers and magazines, she is one of Ireland's most well-known faces. Gilson described the show as her "most daunting experience" ev...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2262212