Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2010 is almost upon us and we are very proud of our Fred for being nominated.

For the next three Fridays at 7.30 on RTE1, we will meet the 24 shortlisted bosses for this years Entrepreneur of the year, with Fred appearing in  this Fridays show (1st October).

We are really looking forward to pointing and laughing at Fred…..did I say that out loud? I meant watching and supporting him while he cringes having to watch himself on TV!

As embarrassing as videos may be, we’re all so proud of our Fred and wish him and all the finalists the best of luck as the final judging nears an end.

Here’s a sneak peak of Fred in action.

Ahoy Me DoneDealers!  Cheers for all your mighty entries.  The DoneDeal Pirate bounty of a Blu-Ray player with the Pirates of the Carribean blu-ray DVD’s are being shipped to the mighty Trevor Valentine who be hailing from the county of Kildare.

Our 5 DoneDeal pirate Booty Bags are on route to James Redmond from Wicklow, John Doyle from Kilkenny, Karen McEvoy from Tipp, Pauline Reilly from Meath and Richard Cunningham from Cork.

Congratulations me DoneDealers, aaarrrrr!

AAaaaarr me hearties! Tis Talk Like A Pirate Day on Sunday 19th September and by way of celebration, the crew of the good ship DoneDeal are giving all you land lubbers the chance to plunder our chest of goodies!

If you can tell me the name of the pirate Johnny Depp plays in Pirates of the Carribean, you’ll be in with a chance to win our Pirate Bounty -

• A Blu Ray player with blu ray discs of the 3 Pirates of the Carribean films along with your DoneDeal Pirate Booty Bags!
• 5 Booty Bags to be sent out to runnuers up.

Closing date for entries is Tuesday 21st of September.  If ye be wantin to enter, email your Full Name and Address to competitions@donedeal.ie, Savvy??

The number of Irish people on Facebook has doubled over the past year to 400,980.  Now, you can Share your ad from DoneDeal on your facebook page to give all your friends the opportunity to snap up your item for sale.

When placing your ad on DoneDeal, you will see a link to Share on the last page, simples!

You can also “Like” those really cool ads you come across on our site so that your friends can have a look. On each ad you will see a Like button in the blue box beside each ad.

If there’s something you like about an ad, the photo, the item for sale, or whatever grabs your attention, click on Like in the blue box beside the ad and all your facebook friends can have a look!

We love to have a chat with fellow DoneDealers, to hear all your ideas, how your day’s going or anything you guys want to talk about!

So we have launched our Discussion‘s section on our Facebook Page.

We’ll send a fancy DoneDeal mouse mat to the first 10 people to start a new thread. So, please come over to our Facebook page and get the conversation started!