A CAREER in media could be on the cards for Glengarriff Apprentice Conor Galvin after he was fired by a heavy-hearted Alan Sugar.

‘It’s been very nice to meet you, and be associated with you, but I have to think about a gut feeling, so you’re fired,’ Lord Sugar told him on week nine of the BBC reality show.

The business mogul added: ‘You have come through nine weeks of difficult stuff and you have done good, so I wish you well.’

Conor told The Southern Star there have been many takeaways from his time on the hugely popular show designed to test the entrepreneurial skills of 20 ambitious men and women.

‘One of the biggest things I have learned from the entire experience is that when you are yourself, genuinely aligned to yourself, you have no regrets.

‘For the full nine weeks, I was pretending to be, quote unquote, a business person with my serious hat on. I watched myself back and at times I wish I had just been myself.

‘I had insecurities of being too flamboyant, too energetic, or too camp. I thought to myself: “He won’t like that version of me” so I put on a facade.

‘By the end of the nine weeks that just exhausted me and ground me down, so honestly the most affirming thing is to be who you are.’

The 30-year-old is already the owner of an expanding Press Print Paper business. And, yes, the son of Gerry and Anne is flamboyant, funny and rather frenetic.

TV, radio and newspaper reporters have found him a joy to interview, which has led to speculation that he could have another career on TV or as a radio presenter.

One of the positive takeaways was that Lord Sugar clearly liked Conor’s one-liners, the fact that he was nice to other people, and that he could stand up for himself.

‘I think he respected how I could articulate why I made certain decisions during the weekly tasks,’ said Conor who loved travelling to Hong Kong and Egypt, and all of the challenging tasks over the nine weeks.

‘You can take what you do seriously, but you don’t have to take yourself too seriously.’

Being back home is a total joy for Conor: as teenager he said he couldn’t wait to get away, but now realises what he was missing and is ‘falling in love with West Cork all over again’.