Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam

This has been a big week for the digital economy. The Irish Recorded Music Association which ensures that record labels get paid for their clients’ creativity, hosted a conference on “Copyright & Human Creativity in the Age of AI”. It is striving to ensure that human creativity remains valued and protected amid rapid technological change. A lot to discuss with David Kitching, Head of...

A run through Friday business headlines and markets with Joe Lynam and Austin Hughes. 

ArmadilloPay works with large, usually-American corporations to send small amounts but in large batches of payments to individuals in one go. Using card services companies such as MasterCard or Visa.  Joining Joe in studio was Liam Sheehan the co-founder of ArmadilloPay. 

Two clubs in the FAI National League, Newbridge Town and CK United, have partnered with Future Ticketing. This platform that helps clubs move from cash and paper payments to online purchasing.  Speaking to Emmet was Liam Holton, Future Ticketing CEO. 

Private investment of more than €1 billion could be required over the next five years to help Ireland close the gap between its healthcare capacity and OECD average levels. Emmet discusses this further with Stephen Beale, an Associate Director at Cardinal Capital Group .  

Thursday's business headlines along with Emmet Oliver.

Public Affairs executives or lobbyists are supposed to register every meeting they hold with civil servants or State bodies. The agency that monitors that registry is called the Standards in Public Office registry. To explain its workings was Aoife Drudy, from SIPO Commission.

This week the leaders of Germany, Italy and Belgium called for a way to be created for national governments to pull a brake if proposed EU legislation would make competitiveness weaker in Europe. So should governments have a veto? To discuss with Joe was Lucinda Creighton is a former government Europe Minister who now runs Vulcan Advisory in Brussels. 

Wednesday's business headlines along with Joe Lynam.

This time 2 years ago asking prices for property were rising nationally almost in double digits.  This is according to MyHome.ie, the biggest jumps in asking prices were outside the capital where they rose by 4.8%.  Are we looking at a more sustainable market or perhaps even a correction in prices?     Joe asked Conall Mac Coille the Chief Economist with Bank of Irela...

Amarach have conducted a new customer experience survey.   Overall Ireland’s CXi rating internationally rose this year with supermarkets and banks doing much better than in previous years.  To find out more details on the survey findings was Gerard O’Neill Chair of Amarach who carried out this survey. 

Tuesday's business headlines with Joe Lynam.

The hyperscalers are set to spend ¾ of a trillion dollars this year building infrastructure to meet the demand for AI services.  The Government’s AI summit starts in two days and the ‘West by West’ festival in three days in Castlebar.  So where are Irish companies when it comes to preparedness for technology which will doubtless transform our working lives?   Joe discusses this...

Monday's business headlines along with Joe Lynam and Russ Mould from AJ Bell. 

Rossa White has played major role in resuscitating Ireland’s public finances and engaging with bond market investors to help Ireland exit the bailout. Now he’s joined EY and his first act will have been to assess last week’s budget. Rossa White, Chief Economist with EY  spoke to Joe about his new role.

Startups and scale-ups got a shout out in the budget this week.  The capital gains tax was cut to 31% and a brand new €1bn scale up fund was announced.  Music no doubt to the ears of my next guest who runs the Guinness Enterprise Centre. It is marking its 25th year in existence with more than 160 companies currently under its roof in Dublin 8.  David Varian is the Chair of the Guinn...

Friday's business headlines review with Joe Lynam and Aidan Donnelly from Davys.

While governments and investors rave about the potential of AI, many workers are anxious about whether their jobs will be lost or at least become unrecognisable in future.  So ahead of the official AI summit in this country next week, the trade unions are organising an AI ‘Counter summit’ tomorrow.   Speaking to Joe was Ian McArdle is the Deputy General Secretary with the Communicat...

Whatnot is the app on which you can get a live demo from sellers all over the world about what they are selling. Sellers promote viewing windows to would-be buyers who tune in live and ask questions directly about the product. Speaking to Joe was Daniel Fisher is the Head of Categories and Expansion, Europe with Whatnot.

Ripple‘s bathrooms install almost 20 bathrooms every week in homes up and down the country. But he is certainly noticing how difficult it is to hire and retain Staff and tradesmen and women.   A lot to discuss with Joe Flynn the owner of Ripples bathrooms. 

Thursday's business headlines with Joe Lynam.

Newstalk's Business Editor Joe Lynam is at PwC’s HQ in Ireland to assess the budget which was announced yesterday afternoon. To take a deep dive into what the budget means for companies Joe was joined by Harry Harrison a tax partner with PwC and Colm O’Callaghan also from PwC.

Wednesday post budget business headlines with Newstalk Business Editor Joe Lynam. Broadcasting live from PwC’s HQ in Ireland.

District heating is where local homes and businesses get their heating from a single source in the area. Which ideally gets that energy from renewable sources such as heat pumps or solar. Last year the very first district heating scheme was announced in Ireland and nine more projects were approved only last week. Pauline O'Reilly, Irish District Heating Association spoke to Joe this morning. 

There are plenty of grants and credit around for research and development for companies. But the bureaucratic effort to get them is often a huge disincentive to apply.  Equally small companies struggle to grow because they can't get the qualified staff or the financing. So what should the government announce later today in the budget to make it simpler for SMEs? To discuss further with Joe was Par...