Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam

A look at today's business papers with Newstalk Business Editor Joe Lynam.

Joining Emmet Oliver this morning to run through the H1 results from Home Building Finance Ireland is their CEO, Dara Deering who talked us through the results.

For over 80 years, Irish Life Investment Managers (ILIM) have been working with clients to deliver investment solutions. Here to give us a mid-year investment outlook is Anthony McGuinness, Chief Investment Officer of ILIM...

A run-through of some of the business stories today with Emmet Oliver who was filling in for Joe Lynam Aidan Donnelly of Davys.

Unmanned aerial vehicles – or UAVs – as they are more commonly referred to, can aid in the inspection and maintenance of hydroelectric plants – so says ZenaDrone. Business Development Manager Simon Henry joined Emmet Oliver on the show.

Champion Green is launching the go-to retail destination for 'Support Local' shopping this summer on Clarendon Street. To tell us more about this Carina Galavan from Aviva Life and Pension joined Emmet Oliver on the show this morning.

A run-through of some of the business stories today with Emmet Oliver who was filling in for Joe Lynam.

The European Council has adopted new rules to combat pay discrimination and help close the gender pay gap in the EU. Under the pay transparency directive, EU companies will be required to share information about how much they pay women and men for work of equal value and take action if their gender pay gap exceeds 5%. Linda Hynes is a Partner at Lewis Silkin and joined Emmet Oliver on the show thi...

Mortgage drawdowns have decreased 17% in volume and 12% in value in the space of a year. That’s just one of the findings in the Banking and Payment Federation’s Mortgage Drawdowns Report for Q2 2023. Brian Haynes, CEO of the Banking and Payments Federation of Ireland joined Emmet Oliver on the show.

A run-through of some of the business stories today with Emmet Oliver who was filling in for Joe Lynam.

The food and drink sector has called on the Government to extend its energy support schemes for businesses as cost pressures linger. Jonathan McDade is the deputy director of Food Drink Ireland and joined Emmet Oliver on the show.

One company is aiming to reach net zero by 2024 and calls for the energy scheme to be extended. ‘Hitting net zero is hard work but anything worthwhile is’ - so says David Russell, chief executive of Elio Networks who joined Emmet Oliver on the show.

A run-through of some of the business stories today with Emmet Oliver who was filling in for Joe Lynam.

What started out with the simple need to provide a service for local people in and around Wexford town, now has 61 buses on the roads travelling not just from Wexford but also to Maynooth, Carlow, Wicklow, Waterford, and Dublin airport. Brendan Crowley is the founder of Wexford Bus and he’s our July Businessperson of the Month. All with thanks to Eversheds Sutherland.

As part of the government’s Housing for All strategy, The First Home Scheme was set up last year with a €400m war chest to get first-time buyers on the housing ladder. Its first annual progress report is out this week and 2000 buyers have been approved with 500 of them already moved into their new place. The scheme - like all things in housing - faces criticism that the government may in fact be p...

A look at today's business papers and markets with Aidan Donnelly from Davy's.

Earlier this month, the IDA revealed that the pace of inward investment had slowed compared to last year. The State’s inward investment agency said it had secured 139 investments in the first six months of the year - down 10pc on the same time the previous year. The number of jobs that could be created was also down 33% on the first half of last year. It all shows that competition is hotting up fr...

A run-through of some of the business stories today with Newstalk Business Editor Joe Lynam.

We all recall the winking paper clip which said ‘it looks as if you're composing an email’. And we all know that chatbots with your broadband provider rarely end up helping much. But now an Irish company Viatel is launching a generative AI chat bot for Teams which will do a lot more than direct you to the website. Speaking to Joe this morning Finian Nally Head of Microsoft Cloud Solutions with Via...

The owners of Centra and Supervalu supermarkets - Musgraves - say they’ve cut their carbon in both chains by 9% since last year and aim to slash their overall emissions by 46% by the end of the decade. They did it focussing on packaging and waste a lot as well as replacing all light fittings with low energy bulbs. Owen Keogh, Musgrave Head of Sustainability joined Joe this morning on the show.

Earlier this week, Russia said it was tearing up the grain shipment deal which allowed Ukrainian grain to pass freely through the Black Sea and on to mostly poorer African nations that need it. We ask how the war is affecting Ukraine as well as Russia economically as we pass the 500-day mark since it started. Joining Joe on the show this morning is David Zaikin Co-Founder of the consultants - the...

A run-through of some of the business stories today with Newstalk Business Editor Joe Lynam.

We’ve all heard of horrifying cases of young people being bullied online or watching videos that encourage them to harm themselves. Ireland’s new media watchdog and media development agency, Coimisiún na Meán, is canvassing views from the public about Ireland’s first binding Online Safety Code. The idea is to ensure that giant social media platforms such as Instagram and tiktok take swift action t...

The good news for a news station like Newstalk is that the public appetite to stay up to date is as strong as ever according to the latest PTSB Reflecting Ireland study. Even better news is that Radio and TV are the 2 most trusted sources for news. But there is a growing sense of distrust about the reliability of social media as a source of news. The research also found that worries about the econ...

A run-through of some of the business stories today with Newstalk's Business Editor Joe Lynam.