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This week on Down to Business: The knitting industry, buying a car in 2016, and our tech review

Kieran Cuddihy is leaving his 'out and about' reporting duties for Newstalk Breakfast to one side...
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15.27 11 Dec 2015


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This week on Down to Business:...

This week on Down to Business: The knitting industry, buying a car in 2016, and our tech review

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15.27 11 Dec 2015


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Kieran Cuddihy is leaving his 'out and about' reporting duties for Newstalk Breakfast to one side and filling in for Bobby Kerr tomorrow.

Here's what we have ready to go:

  • First up, we take a look at the stories that are making an impact from Saturday's papers with Sinead O’Donnell - PR Account Manager with Carr Communications.
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  • 2015 has been a busy year for tech with the re-emergence of the tablet, Artifical Intelligence worrying Stephen Hawking and Hacking hacked businesses and became big business. To cast a bionic eye over all this is Down To Business Tech Guru Andy O’Donoghue will be in the studio.
  • Motoring Mail Bag with thanks to Toyota - Sunday Independent car-espondnet Geraldine Herbert comes into to studio to answer listeners car related queries and looks at what’s happening in the world of automobiles. This time she also wants to give you some advice if you’re thinking of getting a new car next month.
  • The popularity of knitting and stitching has been on something of a comeback trail recently. Just a few weeks back an estimated 25,000 people descended on the RDS for the annual Knitting and Stitching Show. We'll talk to Rosemary Murphy who is the owner of The Constant Knitter here in Dublin, by Paul O’Sullivan who is the Managing Director of Ireland’s Eye and by Brendan Kavanagh who is the owner of The Knitting Room in Donnycarney about this craft industry.
  • Producer John Fardy takes a Segway tour.
  • The Ice Project has seen Irish explorers taking on challenges such as Killamanjaro, the North Patagonian Icecap, the North Pole and trekking across Greenland to name just a few. Mike O’Shea will tell us about his latest adventure.

All this and more on Down to Business from 10am until midday tomorrow morning, on air and online.

As ever, you can find blog posts and weekly DTB highlights on our show page.


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