Declan Gerald Curry (born 5 September 1971) is a Northern Irish freelance journalist, news presenter and businessman, best known as the former business correspondent for '' BBC Breakfast''.

Early life

Curry was born and raised in Strabane, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

Career

Early career

Curry studied chemistry at Imperial College, London. There he reported for IC Radio and ICNN (Imperial College News Network), as well as the weekly paper ''Felix''. Curry has worked for and broadcast on

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and

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, but has spent most of his career with the BBC.

BBC

Curry started working for the BBC in 1994. He worked on the

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from the channel's inception in 1997. He has also worked for

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, and Radio 4. Curry is best known for his reporting of the happenings in the

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and other British

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news, particularly during the '' Breakfast'' programme on

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and BBC News Channel. On 23 May 2005, Curry did not participate in a staff strike against announced pay cuts. He justified his stance by commenting: "I don't support the strike at all. The management have made a very strong case in my view as to why these cuts are necessary. It's other people's money that we are spending and we have to use it as wisely as we can." On 6 October 2008, Curry began a new role as presenter of BBC Two's ''

Working Lunch ''Working Lunch'' is a television programme which was broadcast on BBC Two covering business, personal finance and consumer news; it was broadcast between 1994 and 2010. The programme was first aired on 19 September 1994. It had a quirky, relaxed ...

'', alongside Naga Munchetty, replacing the previous team headed by

Adrian Chiles Adrian Chiles (born 21 March 1967) is a British writer and television and radio presenter. He has co-presented both ''The One Show'' (2007–2010) and '' Daybreak'' (2010–2011) with Christine Lampard. He was also the chief presenter for foo ...

and Adam Shaw. After the programme ended in July 2010 Curry was a regular host of ''Your Money'' on the BBC News Channel on Saturday mornings until August 2014. Curry introduced the business and finance reports on Radio 5 Live's ''Drive'' programme, and has also presented the programme on occasions. From 5 September 2010, Curry presented ''On the Money'', a Sunday evening business programme on Radio 5 Live, and later hosting the business debate programme ''Show Me The Money'' on the News Channel, also on Sunday evening at 21.30. At the end of summer 2014, Curry, who has been freelance for many years, decided to stop making long term programmes for the BBC. He now concentrates on print journalism, public speaking and acting as a business conference chair.

Awards

On 6 July 2009, Curry was awarded an honorary degree from Middlesex University.Honorary Graduates
Middlesex University, July 2009

References

External links

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Curry biodata @ BBC Presenters

Working Lunch

Video clips

Visiting his home town in July 2009
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