Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam

We live in an age where appearances matter and forming a good first impression is important. None more so than your smile. Hamish Khayat developed his first dental hygiene products when he was at school and has now built up an empire including electric toothbrushes, floss and teeth whitening strips for sale all over the US and UK.  Now he’s arrived in Ireland selling his Burst oral care...

Throughout the 90s and the 2000s, the world became a smaller place in trading terms and globalisation was dominant. But now in the age of Donald Trump, tariffs and trade sanctions are very much on the menu. But do tariffs actually work or do they in fact encourage the tariffed nation to innovate more and potentially become an even bigger arrival as is the case with China? All to discuss with Macro...

Thursday's business news headlines along with Joe Lynam.

€900 not bad for a few minutes work.  That’s the average refund for people who file their tax return online.  The Revenue wants more people to use the MyAccount facility online and join the 440,000 people who were entitled to a refund that's 80% of all those who filed returns last year.  For advice on how to file your tax return Joe spoke to Aisling Ní Mhaoileoin, Manager of Revenue...

Wednesday's business news headlines along with Joe Lynam.

Europe has continuously lagged the US in terms of startups and capital investment in new companies. Much of that is down to the perception of red tape that exists when operating across the 27 member states. There is a new proposal which aims to get over this by creating an EU wide recognised legal entity called an EU Inc. Joe was joined on the show by serial investor Andreas Klinger who led this p...

25% that’s the new tariff that the US has provisionally placed on its closest and biggest trading partners Canada & Mexico.  Their crime supposedly not adequately combating illegal migration and the opioid crisis.  That's despite Trump renegotiating a trade deal himself with both nations to create the USMCA when he was last in office.  To discuss these tariffs Joe spoke to Brad...

The total value of pension savings in Ireland stands at €142bn and rising.  Most of that money will be invested in bonds and equities but most of those shares will be large American companies who aren't shy of a bob or two. Speaking to Joe this morning was Alan Merriman the Chief Executive of Elkstone and he believes that a certain proportion of our huge savings pot should be required to...

Monday's business news headlines along with Joe Lynam.

As we all know from 2007, a booming economy can collapse very quickly if there’s a major external shock.  We’ve similarly low unemployment and high house prices today. So are we just as vulnerable to a serious Trump-shaped externality?  Are about to entirely miss the AI boat in Europe?  To discuss further Joe spoke to Neil Hughes the Chief Executive with Azets Ireland.  

Friday's business news headlines along with Joe Lynam and Kate English Chief Economist with Deloitte.

The largest private healthcare insurer, VHI, announced across the board price increases yesterday. That will affect hundreds of thousands of customers. Overall, around 50% of Irish adults have private health insurance. That is among the highest in Europe. The body charged with ensuring fair play and that you are not overpaying is the health insurance authority.   Brian Lee is the Chief E...

Joe Lynam takes a run through this morning's business news headlines.

Despite a robust economy Irish business owners and managers have been screaming out that they are bearing the burden and that profit levels have been cut through higher minimum wages and a slew of new benefits for employees including sick and holiday pay. The hospitality sector has been among the most vociferous in its demands for a cut in VAT rates. They look as if they’ll get their wish but...

Two large South American nations have been in the news lately.  One displeased Donald Trump and the other has managed to turn a huge budget deficit into a surplus.  Colombia faced immediate tariffs of up to 50% at the weekend because it refused to accept its immigrants deported in shackles from the US. Meanwhile Argentina’s far right president appears to have pulled an economic rabbit ou...

Joe Lynam brings us Wednesday's business news headlines.

We’ve spoken about the energy required to run data centres in the past and how AI will drive that energy demand through the roof.  But the sudden arrival of DeepSeek from China seems to suggest that you might not need the type of scale that the US technology giants have been advocating.  Indeed Deepseek has suddenly forced investors and engineers to think again about how AI can and shoul...

You had probably never heard of the Chinese AI company Deepseek until last weekend that is.  It released a Gen AI model which has proven to be just as good if not better than ChatGPT except it cost a mere fraction of what OpenAI has pumped into ChatGPT.  It’s caused consternation on the markets as investors fear they've overpaid for Nvidia which are the chips we were told have to use to...

The formation of a centrist coalition should be positive for housing, planning, regulation, and infrastructure.  However Trumpenomics, including a potential tariff war and a radical cut in Corporation tax in the US could pose problems for the commercial property market.  They are some of the assessments of the latest property outlook for 2025 by CBRE. Speaking to Joe this morning was Col...

Tuesday's business news headlines along with Newstalk's Business Editor Joe Lynam.

Joe Lynam is joined by Neil Sorahan, CFO with Ryanair, to go through another profit loss for Europe’s biggest airline.

Joe is joined by Kathleen Brooks from XTB to go through all the big business news this Monday.

Joe Lynam sits down with the Chief Economist with Goodbody Stockbrokers, Dermot O’Leary, to talk the economist’s view of ‘Trump 2.0.’ ‘The risks are on the whole tilted towards the downside’.  That’s the glass half empty view of Goodbody stockbrokers as we start the first full week of the Trump presidency.

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

Through gritted teeth Ireland agreed to raise its long held Corporation Tax rate from 12.5% to 15% for large companies as part of the agreed OECD tax rules. But Donald Trump has now removed the US from that scheme entirely, placing its global implementation.  On top of that he’s now talking about punishing countries that charge American companies higher tax rates as well as creating an Extern...