Paschal Donohoe, Managing Director of the World Bank and journalist Lise Hand return to give their non-fiction recommendations of the year. Their choices are below.

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Lise's choices

1. Careless People: Sarah Wynn-Williams

2. The Secret Life of Leinster House: Gavan Reilly

3. I’m Glad You Asked Me That: Terry Prone

4. When the Going Was Good: An Editor's Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines: Graydon Carter

5. Kitchen Confidential: Anthony Bourdain (25th anniversary ed.)

Paschal's choices

1 A Short History of America by Simon Jenkins.

2 The World’s Worst Bet: How the Globalization Gamble Went Wrong.

3 Breakneck by Dan Wang

4 The Thinking Machine by Stephen Witt

5 Speaking My Mind by Leo Varadkar

6. Love in a Time of Politics by Katherine Zaponne

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Fionnuala Jones and Dave Hanratty join The Last Word to discuss the week's trending stories.

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Irish Times columnist and 'An Irish Diary' writer, Frank McNally talks to Matt about his early career in the civil service and how he got into journalism. In his new book, he turns his attention inwards and reflects on his unusual life.

Frank's book is called Not Making Hay, The Life And Times Of A 'Diary' Farmer.

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Brian Lloyd and Cara O'Doherty join The Last Word to recommend some great movies to watch over the Christmas period.

From 'Saipan' and a brand new 'Knives Out' to Christmas classics like 'The Muppets Christmas Carol', there are so many great movies to playing in cinemas and on TV and streaming.

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For The Last Word on the Environment this week John Gibbons joins Matt to give us some reasons to be cheerful in the fight against climate change

They discuss Ireland's move towards renewable energy like wind and solar

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Matt is joined by Ian Guider for the annual business review for 2025

They look back on some of the biggest business news of the year

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On this week's Tech Thursday Andy O'Donoghue give us suggestions for some last minute Christmas presents

Andy has suggestions for power banks, smart home tech and more

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Fresh from winning the Popular Book of the year at this year's An Post Irish Book Awards for her latest book Paper Heart, Cecelia Ahern joins Matt in the culture club to run through the music, movies, TV, books and plays that have been the soundtrack and influences in her life.

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