ONE MORE THING:BRIAN PURCELL, one of Bill Cullen's sidekicks in the TV3 show The Apprenticehas decided to take the plunge and set up his own public relations agency, Big Picture Communications.
Purcell, who hails from Kerry, is leaving Insight Consultants where he spent the last five years.
“I felt it was time to do my own thing,” Purcell told me this week, adding that he will offer corporate and consumer PR and public affairs services to clients.
For now, it’s a one-man show but Purcell is planning to set up an office and hire some help in the coming months.
Bookmaker Ladbrokes and the Irish Greyhound Board are among his first clients, along with Cullen, who has interests in a number of sectors.
For Cullen, it’s a case of You’re Retired in relation to his role as a non-executive director of the Dublin Aviation Authority.
His term with the DAA has expired, along with those of Peter Barrett of RBS Aviation Capital, Sir Michael Hodgkinson, formerly of the BAA, and Marie O’Connor of PricewaterhouseCoopers.
These positions will now have to be filled by Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar in addition to that of chairman, which has been vacant since David Dilger stepped down suddently earlier this year.
