Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam

Kepak has teamed up with Tirlán and Tesco to create a new ‘lower carbon’ range of beef products - using nutrition, genetics, animal health, as well as the type of cattle to cut emissions by 23% on average. Joe discusses this and more with Mick O'Dowd, is Head of Agri-Business at the Kepak Group. 

Almost 50% of all mortgages are arranged through a broker.  The sector is booming amid a very robust housing market.  Finance Solutions arranges mortgages but also commercial loans and asset finance and is hiring an additional 100 staff in the coming year or so.  Philip Healy, Head of Commercial lending with Finance Solutions spoke to Joe this morning.

Joe Lynam along with Kate English from Deloitte tales a look at Friday's business news.

Thursday's business headlines with Joe Lynam.

Consolidation is definitely under way amid the professional classes.  We’ve seen it among the accountants, auditors and PR consultants in the past 4 years and now we’re seeing it increasingly in the legal world.  Winston Strawn merged officially this week with Taylor Wessing to form Winston Taylor.  But will these mergers avert what could be mass job destruction in the sector caused...

We have seen some disproportionate layoffs in Ireland’s tech sector recently, on the whole the economy appears to be weathering the fuel shock caused by the US and Israeli war against Iran.  But will that last as AI, Chinese subsidies and geopolitics start to have a lasting impact on the European economy?    To discuss all with Joe was Brian McEnery the Managing partner with BD...

Wednesday's business headlines with Joe Lynam.

The problem with traditional pension schemes in Europe is they are mostly not portable - i.e. if you start saving in a scheme in Estonia you can't continue with it if you move to Ireland and vice versa.  There’s a new Pan-European Personal Pension Product or PEPP being rolled out across Europe which gives that portability.  Tamara Vrhovec Sekáč, is the International Business Expansion Ma...

Irish property prices have increased by an astonishing 51% since 2020.  So if you were a property investor that would have been a serious return.  David Jelly the Chief Executive of Property Bridges has created a way for ordinary retail investors to help fund house construction and get into the property market without having to worry about conveyancing and legal costs and without having...

Tuesday's business headlines with Joe Lynam.

EirSpace brings high-achieving students from third level institutions to collaborate on aerospace projects with it's Bell Burnell Rocket. To hear all about their business and projects was Keith Egan is Director of Operations at EirSpace.

DASH Leaders announces the official launch of its leadership development platform, introducing a fresh and practical approach designed to accelerate performance through Edutainment.     Susan got the details of the platform with Maria Langan, Founder and CEO.

A look R Friday's business headlines with Susan Hayes Culleton along with Aidan Donnelly From Davys.

Thursday business headlines with Joe Lynam.

Every company wants to do its bit for the environment so long as it doesn't cost too much. SustainabilityExamples.com at has created a website which shares how small companies all over Ireland have introduced small but notable steps to cut emissions. It does what it says on the tin and allows SMEs to learn from each other without having to pay huge consulting fees. It’s run by Andrew Sheehan...

Geopolitical risks brought on by the Iran war are the Central Bank of Ireland’s biggest concern but the Irish economy is resilient and one of the best placed nations to benefit from AI.  They are some of the views of the Governor as he published the first financial stability Review of the year. Joe discussed those global risks with the Governor.

Wednesday's business headlines with Joe Lynam.

The technology sector contributed €107bn to the Irish exchequer last year and data centres are at the heart of that windfall but are being ‘demonised’. That’s the view of Digital Infrastructure Ireland in a new report which also found that any restrictions on new data centres would cause considerable harm to our economy in the age of AI.   Speaking to Joe to discuss this and more was Mau...

The Dublin Tech summit starts today. Autonomous cars on our streets will be discussed and nations such as Croatia and the Netherlands have already approved their limited use but await full EU approval, which may take time.  Thomas Zimmerman the boss of the biggest European ride hailing app Freenow and he will be speaking to delegates about self-driving vehicles today. Thomas joined Joe this m...

Qashio is a fintech, which supplies corporate credit cards to businesses. The company, which was co-founded by a Cork woman, enables easier expense management for staff and is growing rapidly in the Middle East where it is based.  They’re hoping to ramp up here in Ireland and Europe. Lydia Foott the co founder of Qashio joined Joe in studio. 

Tuesday's business news headlines with Joe Lynam.

The picture according to a survey from Chartered Accountants Ireland looks worrying for SMEs.  71% of them are more pessimistic than they were six months ago and all of them are worried about rising costs.  Conversely a quarter of small companies reported increased profits. It comes as accountants themselves face huge challenges from AI and mounting legislation. Joe discusses the survey...

Monday' business news review with Joe Lynam and Economist Austin Hughes. 

There is a new piece of legislation being haggled over in the EU called the Financial Data Access regulation or FiDA.  The idea is to share banking data with fintechs and banks in order to democratise financial services and create way more competition in the banking sector.  It’s quite complex as to what will happen to this personal data and many are nervous about sharing anything with t...

Given the decline in the number of letters that we are sending each other, An Post urgently needs to earn more money from parcels and packages .The logistics giant said that it now ranks 4th in the IPC sustainability index thanks to removing all its diesel vans and replacing them with EVs as well as using 99% renewable energy in all its buildings nationwide.  But change in the form of major c...