It’s Black Friday next Friday, the 29th of November - and it’s assumed we’ll all go mad shopping online.

But a group of concerned of business people have company to launch a Green Friday Shop Local Campaign which as the name suggests urges consumers not to forget to buy from indigenous Irish Goods.

Bobby was joined by JP Kennedy, the Commercial Director of Retail Excellence to explain a bit more about this initiative.

Live from Kinsale for the Your Town Your Main Street series, Bobby spoke to local business owners like Sam Black from Black's Brewery & Distillery, photographer Giles Norman, champion sea swimmer Alex Jeffers and Change by Degrees' Dr Tara Shine and Madeleine Murray.

From Kinsale for the Your Town Your Main Street series, in this week's Executive Chair, Bobby was joined by Colum O’Sullivan of Cully & Sully, a brand well known for their soups, pies, hot-pots, and broths.

Cully & Sully have since expanded into European markets but as well as making waves across the water they’re also involved in cleaning them up.

From Kinsale for the Your Town Your Main Street series, Bobby spoke to Lucy Hegarty, who runs La Bougie, a local candle and perfume business and went through a journey of different aromas including whale vomit and civet glands.

Live from Kinsale for the Your Town Your Main Street series, Bobby spoke to writer, raconteur and slow adventurer Jasper Winn.

Among many other escapades, the Cork Born slow adventurer has cycled across the Sahara, canoed the length of the Danube, paddled around Ireland and roller-skated the length of the Netherlands and most recently undertook 1,200km pilgrimage in Japan.

 

Live from Kinsale for the Your Town Your Main Street series, Bobby spoke to local business owners like Guny Patel from the Kinari Boutique, local butcher John Barret and Liam Edwards, owner of Jim Edwards Bar and Restaurant.

They also hear feedback from our panel of experts: Landscape Designer Ingrid Smyth and Dan Ryan, retailer who previously worked in Selfridges and Primark.

On shows like this week's Your Town Your Main Street series, 'Down to Business' does a little 'Health Check' with our panel of experts who have a look at the town they are in. In this week's show it was Kinsale's turn.

Bobby was joined by Landscape Designer Ingrid Smyth and Dan Ryan, retailer who previously worked in Selfridges and Primark.

Live from Kinsale for the Your Town Your Main Street series, Bobby spoke to Martin Shanahan, owner of award winning restaurant and cafe Fishy Fishy, who is mad about fish. 

 

Bobby went down to the new FAO Schwarz toy-store in Arnotts and spoke to Valerie O’Neill, Fashion Buying Director about the legacy behind the store and the significance of it opening just its second European outlet right here in Dublin.

He also had the opportunity to play the big piano, just like Tom Hanks in the film "Big"!

 

Bobby was joined by Mike and Edel Treanor of Mullan Lighting, Co. Monaghan, for this week’s Executive Chair, where they discussed the their business' story, their strategies to energize places that have been forgotten, plans going forward and more.