This week’s show features our usual small business round-up and includes a special feature on debt forgiveness for SMEs. Kahlen also explores the glass ceiling with Marion Palmer from Women in Technology and Science (WITS. The Incoming Tour Operators Association also predict another positive year for tourism and John Trethowan from the Credit Review Office talks about banks, small business credit and getting the right information to SMEs.

Most tour groups who came to Ireland last year spent an average of 7.5 nights here.

TOURISM Minister Mary Hanafin has insisted that the Irish tourist industry is reacting in a “consistent, calm and coordinated manner” to the crisis caused by volcanic ash disruption.