Hotelier Liam Griffin, who coached the Wexford hurling team to victory in Croke Park in 1996, next week highlights another success story from the county tourism. Already 830,000 visitors bring more than £84 million a year into Wexford, but locals now have a new goal: the development of a visitor centre and amenities at Hook Head Lighthouse, The Last Resource reports, on RTE 1, Tuesday, 8.30 p.m.-9 p.m.
Rural Ireland and industrial Germany: The Money Programme examines how two very different regions of Europe will be affected by the introduction of the single currency, on BBC 2, Sunday, 7.30 p.m.-8 p.m.
Meanwhile, the president of the Bundesbank at the time of the 1990 Rome Summit recalls how he tried to allay Britain's concerns about moves towards the euro: "Margaret Thatcher said, `I will never go to the Queen and present to her European bank notes which do not include her picture.' I said: `Well that we can solve . . . We can put a picture of the queen of England on the backside of the euro note'." But the lady wasn't for turning, reports the penultimate part of The Money Changers, BBC 2, tomorrow, 8.10 p.m.-9 p.m. The final episode is on BBC 2, Sunday, 8 p.m.-8.50 p.m.
Oxford Street is one of the busiest shopping streets in Europe, achieving sales of £6 billion sterling a year. But a further £1 million worth of goods disappear each week into the pockets of shop-lifters and dishonest staff. Retailers determined to stop the rot, are installing closed circuit television for the first time. What impact will it have? A Crime Beat special: Shops, Robbers and Videotape, reports on BBC 1, Wednesday, 9.35 p.m.-10.15 p.m
Finally, after participating in a week-long international business challenge, representatives of more than 500 firms gather on the Val de Loire to report how they fared, in Eurochallenge: Chefs D'Enterprise Autour Du Monde, TV5, tomorrow, 10 a.m.
