Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam

In this episode, Joe was joined by Steve Thomas, General Counsel with Kelkoo, to discuss the upcoming ruling from the European Court of Justice on Google's appeal over alleged anti-competitive practices in the price comparison market. The EU accused Google of favouring its own comparison-shopping service in search results, sidelining competitors like Kelkoo. With a potential €2.4 billion fine at s...

Joe was joined by Seán O’Driscoll, former CEO of Glen Dimplex and current chair of the ESRI and the governing authority of University College Cork where Seán shared his deep frustrations about the state of university funding in Ireland and the slow pace of infrastructure development. The conversation kicked off with a focus on how Irish universities are funded and why the current system needs urge...

We give you Monday's business headlines and news with Russ Mould.

Emirates has doubled the number of flights it makes from Ireland to Dubai every day.  Joe spoke with Anita Thomas, the Ireland manager with Emirates and began by asking her how business is for them. The Sligo luxury goods maker Voya will now provide fragrances and cosmetics on Emirates business and First-class flights and in its lounges worldwide.  Joe asked the founder of Voya, Mark Wal...

The AI large language model belonging to X known as Grok has agreed to stop harvesting personal information and data from European union users. It follows a complaint from the Irish data protection commissioner and is probably the first notable victory against X since Elon Musk took over two years ago. But does it matter and has Grok already harvested enough information from us without our consent...

Aidan Donnelly from Davy's brings us through all the big business headlines.

A report published yesterday says Europeans may need to eat less meat and buy more locally produced produce. Is it a sop to Farmers, who may have to radically change what they do and which may end up costing consumers a lot of money or is it a realistic solution to cutting emissions? To discuss further with Joe was Olof Gill is a spokesman for the EU Commission.

A shocking 51% of adults have yet to write a Will and only 14% of those bequeath any money to charities.  Now the advocates MyLegacy hope to persuade more of us to start writing a Will and think of worthwhile causes when it comes passing some of your money.    Niall O’Sullivan, Chairperson of My Legacy spoke to Joe this morning on the show.

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

The Land Development Agency was set up only three years ago to turn state-owned land into affordable homes.  It's set to become the biggest single house builder in Ireland. But its future may be in jeopardy as Sinn Fein has said this week it would scrap the LDA in order to speed up house building.  Speaking to Joe this morning was John Coleman is the chief executive of the Land Developme...

Dublin airport is only allowed a maximum of 32 million passengers in a single year under planning rules from 15 years ago. It’s applied to raise that cap to 40 million to meet surging demand but that process could take years and so now today DAA which runs Dublin and Cork airports can confirm that it will indeed breach that cap this year.  Kenny Jacobs the Chief Executive of DAA tells us why?

We give you Wednesday's business headlines and news.

IBEC, which represents most Irish employers, is not a political party and is not running for Office but it has just published its manifesto. It’s heavy on aspiration and acknowledges that implementation is a lot easier than publication.  It calls for the speeding up infrastructure delivery, investing in public services, enhancing lifelong Education and reducing red tape  To discuss the m...

In exactly four weeks, the Finance Minister Jack Chambers will issue his first and the coalition’s final budget before the election. Every sector has its thoughts on what the government should do including the investment and money management sector.  Wealth managers Elkstone, who invest only in Irish ventures, have issued their proposals and there are some interesting suggestions includi...

A look at Tuesday's business news headlines with Joe Lynam.

What do Canberra, Connacht, Leinster and Mexico have in common?  The answer is Darragh Fanning and the Zambrero chain of restaurants.  The former rugby player loved the food so much while playing in the Australian capital that he brought the franchise to Ireland. And this week he marks the amazing feat of opening his 25th outlet.  All the while his group has provided 81 million free...

The Lockdowns of 4 years created a boom in DIY people tried their hand at doing bigger jobs in their own home rather than pay someone to do it.  One of the beneficiaries of that boom was the giant hardware chain Screwfix which has more than 900 stores in Britain, Ireland and France.  John Mewett the Chief Executive of Screwfix  is worried about a decline in apprenticeships and peopl...

Joe Lynam takes a look at the main business headlines this morning along with Ross Mould from AJ Bell.

Soon the annual Business to Arts Awards take place in which those companies large and small who make the biggest effort to support music, theatre and dance, and get public recognition for their donations and collaborations.  Some businesses donate to help struggling artists, others do so as an act of staff retention and some do it for the tax incentives. Either way the Arts certainly need the...

In order to deal with global credit card providers such as Visa or MasterCard, companies need something called a PCI which proves that their own IT systems are robust to deal with in a safe and secure way. One Irish company specialises in this and even provides services to the Central bank of Ireland Joining Joe this morning was Ian Brown is the Executive Chairman of Integrity360. 

Kate English from Deloitte reviews the stories of the week along with Joe Lynam.

Every business is trying to reduce its carbon consumption and its carbon output these days but one business has designed a device to suck carbon out of the atmosphere and it could really be a game changer on a worldwide scale if it breaks through. Carbon Collect is an Irish-owned company which has former Taoiseach Enda Kenny on its board, which has worked alongside Arizona State University to desi...

A look at Thursday's business news and updates with Newstalk Business Editor Joe Lynam.

For live music fans it’s been an amazing summer:  Springsteen, AC/DC and Taylor Swift and that's before Coldplay arrive here this weekend.  Live music revenues were up 23% last year as we queued up to pay good money to be entertained.  That’s according to PwC’s Entertainment and Media Outlook which says the live sector will grow to €530m by 2028.  It also says that the overall...

There was a time when the vast majority of employees in the financial services sector in Ireland were based in Dublin.  No longer.  Now the latest ‘Ireland for Finance’ report by the government says that a quarter of the 57,000 banking and fintech jobs are outside the capital.  It comes as Irish banks are enjoying record profits.  But is this mini banking boom sustainable?&nbsp...