Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam

Joe Lynam takes a look at today's business news headlines.

If you've enjoyed a beverage at the Aviva stadium recently you’ll doubtless be familiar with the little electronic boxes on which you tap your card.  They’re provided by my next guest’s company: SumUp.  They’re also used in many pop up food trucks, coffee shops and other places where a fixed line would be too expensive and impractical.  But SumUp are more than just for low value pur...

The Digital Hub in the Liberties area of Dublin was designed by Bertie Ahern two decades ago to lure high technology companies to the west inner city.  But the Digital Hub survived and is now home to 59 start-ups and scale-ups.  But plans are afoot to expand into a living as well as working quarter with 550 homes being built. But will they be affordable to ordinary people and will t...

Wednesday's business news review along with Newstalk Business Editor Joe Lynam.

Tourism is a very important part of the Irish economy and a huge employer in rural Ireland. The government is pumping €4.7bn into the sector over the coming years to especially boost tourism outside the capital and the usual hotspots such as Killarney and the Cliffs of Moher. It comes as tourism numbers are declining. They were down 2.8% last year compared to 2024 amid the rising cost of holidayin...

How many of us love booking dental appointments?  And how many of us hate waiting on the line in order to do so.  India Healy O'Connnor has created an artificial receptionist to handle those callers who might otherwise hang up due to delays processing the call.  It sounds quite human and there’s a slight delay as the virtual receptionist processes what you've just asked for, but it...

Tuesday's business news review along with Joe Lynam.

Driving to every single household on this sparsely populated and often remote island is no easy task and creates logistical and environmental issues.  But my next guest decided to make every An Post vehicle have zero emissions.  No mean feat when we’re talking about hundreds of them.  In fact the national postal service aims to be net zero by the end of this decade. And it is for th...

Friday business news and market review with Joe Lynam and Leonie MacCann from Irish life Investment Managers. 

The Irish are famously among the biggest tea drinkers in the world.  It used to be a choice of either Lyons or Barrys but increasingly we are branching out in the types of tea we drink including Matcha, Chai and Green tea.  One tea importer in Galway, called Solaris is run by a German couple who have now achieved the rare accolade of a B Corp Status denoting the highest standards in how...

In Davos last week the EU Commission said it was pressing on with the introduction of a new type of European corporate entity, called EU Inc, which would be recognised in all 27 member states.  It would create a single, harmonized set of EU-wide rules for company law, insolvency, staffing, and tax and could save a lot of money. It’s often referred to as the 28th regime and our own Michael McG...

Thursday's business news review along with Newstalk Business Editor Joe Lynam.

If you're a small or medium-sized retailer and don't fancy installing expensive wired infrastructure to sell stuff such as coffee, furniture or burgers, then you may be familiar with the small white boxes on which your customers can tap their cards. Often those boxes are fittingly made by the technology company Square which is staying with a geometric theme and i...

If you're a business and you had some of your key staff at arm’s length via a contract in order to avoid PRSI and pension payments, you are rapidly running out of time to get your relationships in order with the tax man. That's because Friday at 5pm is the deadline for you to have declared staffers who weren’t on PAYE, paid any outstanding taxes and or...

Joe Lynam brings us Wednesday's business news headlines.

Ireland hosts the EU presidency from July and many sectors are hoping that they can magically improve their lot within the European Union in that six month period. Among those are the bankers who want to see a lot more simplification and perhaps even dilution of some of the strict regulations put in place following the financial crisis, caused mostly by the banks. Speaking to Joe to discuss this f...

Joe Lynam brings us Tuesday's business new headlines.

The European Motor show starts this weekend in Dublin.  There’ll be plenty of glossy new vehicles on show but also a lot more hands-on experiences rather than red ropes for would-be motorists.  Close Brothers provided finance for 12,000 car purchases in Ireland last year whether through Hire purchases or PCP deals. Although buying a new car has soared in this decade, the demand for finan...

Crypto-currencies haven't had a great 12 months.  Bitcoin alone is down 25%.  Despite that, the number of people trading the digital money has continued to blossom.   People may be aware of trading platforms where retail investors can buy crypto such as Coinbase or Binance and now CoinJar is investing €5m to make Dublin its European HQ.  Joining Joe this morning was Niall Carso...

Monday's business news review along with Joe Lynam and Russ Mould.

Ryanair shares may have jumped 3% on Thursday alone and there was a mini spike in ticket sales after the online spat between Michael O’Leary and Elon Musk. But investors will be far more interested in what the airline is earning per passenger these days and what’s happening with a €256 million fine from the Italian Competition Regulator. And now we know that the average fare in the 3rd quarte...

With little sign of the housing crisis abating in 2026, Fianna Fáil Councillor Deirdre Heney has suggested the re-introduce a programme similar to the defunct Rural Resettlement Scheme. We ask is decentralisation the answer to our housing crisis? Ciara and Shane debated this morning.

Friday business news review with Newstalk's Business Editor Joe Lynam and Economist Austin Hughes.

Imagine being able to solve some of the most complex issues in hours rather than decades. Imagine being able to do the kind of calculations that can speed up the delivery of brand-new treatments and medication. Imagine being able to do all the calculations to send a man to the moon in seconds. They are just some of the opportunities that Quantum Computing offers and Equal1 wants to keep some of th...

Thursday's business news review with Newstalk's Business Editor Joe Lynam.