Now, if you've ever driven through the rolling hills of County Carlow, and spotted a beautiful native hedge, or a perfectly placed Mature Mountain Ash Tree, there's a decent chance it came from a little place in Hacketstown called Cullen Nurseries.

This is a family business rooted, quite literally, in generations of green fingers. It started with a father and son, a love of the land, and a Saturday spent in a local nursery. Today it's 19 acres, a DAFM-approved operation, and plants travelling the length and breadth of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Joining me this morning is the woman who keeps the whole show growing!

From the admin, to the marketing, to, I'd imagine, a fair bit of mud on the boots, I am delighted to welcome Catriona Cullen into studio for this weeks episode.

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My next guest is a woman who clearly missed the memo that said 'pick one thing and stick to it. Ciara Stanley runs not one, not two, but THREE businesses out of Carlow.

She's dressing you with Ballybar Ireland, feeding you through Coppenagh House Farm Shop, and now embroidering you with Ardattin Embroidery.

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My guest today is Norah Ryan from Barrow Consultancy & Training.

Now if you've ever wondered how businesses get their act together... their compliance, their training, their standards... Norah is the woman behind a lot of that work here in Carlow and right across Ireland.

From healthcare to childcare, health and safety, to ISO certification, Barrow Consultancy covers it all. But what I find really interesting is the impact that has on real people and real organisations.

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Carlow is a small county, but, what's happening here in terms of business is anything but small. Every corner of this county, from the town to the townland, there are people doing really interesting things. Building businesses, creating jobs, making things happen quietly in the background without a whole lot of fuss.

I love is how connected it all is. One business feeds into another, one person knows someone who knows someone, and before you know it, you realise that Carlow has this incredible network just... humming away.

Every episode I sit down with someone whose business caught my eye, and we just have a proper & open chat, on how sports, politics, entertainment, sponsorship, coffee, connects us all in business, as well as how these business owners became what they are today.

What drives these people, Where they started, what drives them, and how they fit into the bigger picture of what's going on here.

It all connects.

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