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Nationwide – Monday 12th October, 7.00pm, RTÉ One.

Tonight’s Nationwide focuses on new businesses around the country.

Entrepreneurship in young people is an encouraging signal for the future of our country and two young women who started a company only 19 months ago, Improper Butter, have already taken the food industry by storm.  They have won several awards and have joined forces with an established production company combining great taste, superb marketing with a product that has already gained massive attention at home and abroad. Reporter Mary Fanning finds out more.

Many people from all over the country will remember the Agricultural College at the Franciscan Friary in Multyfarnham, Co. Westmeath.  Now a section of that building has been given a new lease of life.  It’s where the Multyfarnham Cookery School is housed and it’s a cookery school with a difference, as reporter Valerie Waters finds out.

 

Nationwide – Wednesday 14th October, 7.00pm, RTÉ One.

Tonight on Nationwide, presenter Anne Cassin marks the 10th year of ‘Open House Dublin’ with a sneak peek on her very own preview tour.  ‘Open House Dublin’ is a simple concept with many buildings across the city throwing open their doors to the public one weekend a year  allowing us to connect with a range of spaces in an immediate and meaningful way.  Anne takes a tour to find out more.

Also in the programme, reporter Barraí Mescall pays a visit to the The Prince August Toy Soldier Factory in the West Cork Gaeltacht of Kilnamartra near Macroom-  the largest toy soldier exhibition and visitor centre in the world. Comprising of 15,000 pieces each individually moulded and painted, it re-enacts one of Europe’s most defining battles, The Battle of Waterloo.

 

Nationwide – Friday 16th October, 7.00pm, RTÉ One.

 

On this evening’s Nationwide, we travel to County Offaly where one of the largest floral festivals in the country took place recently to mark the 200th anniversary of St. Catherine’s Church in Tullamore.  The event attracted visitors from home and abroad and featured no less than 13,000 flowers on display.  Reporter Ciaran Mullooly goes along for a trip down memory lane.

Next to the South East of the country where one man and his love of music and carpentry has led him down a new career path which is paying handsome dividends so far.  Martin Murphy lives in Wexford Town and makes custom built guitars.  His eye for detail and ear for the perfect note is being well received by musicians, as reporter Damien Tiernan finds out.

Finally in the programme, reporter Niall Martin meets  a crew on a sail training project which focuses on the bringing together of young Irish people from North and South.  He joins them on a leg of their training journey.