Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock

To look at the measures introduced in today's budget, Business Editor Ciarán Hancock is joined by Fiach Kelly and Cliff Taylor (The Irish Times), Peter Reilly (PwC) and Marian Finnegan (Sherry FitzGerald). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Inside Business Podcast LIVE at the GPO: "The Future Of Retail"Irish Times Business Editor Ciaran Hancock talked to a panel of retaill experts about the future of the industry in the digital age for our second ever live recording of Inside Business. The event took place at the G.P.O.'s Witness History museum on O'Connell Street, Dublin. On the panel: Maurice Pratt, formerly the face of Quinnsworth...

Ryanair is making headlines for all the wrong reasons for a second week running, with 400,000 customers set to be affected by further flight cancellations over the winter period. On the latest Inside Business podcast, Barry O’Halloran says Michael O’Leary’s airline could have been forgiven for an isolated mess up that led to last week’s PR disaster and the cancellation of two per cent of its fligh...

It's been a week of uncharacteristically poor PR management at Ryanair with the airline forced to cancel 2 per cent of its flights over the next six weeks, due to a cock-up concerning pilots holidays. Irish Times Consumer Affairs correspondent Conor Pope says Michael O'Leary is clearly raging over the blunder but it's unlikely to have any lasting impact on the brand. He joins business reporter Bar...

John Teeling has been in the mining business since 1969. Since then he says he has had "two or three big winners, that's all" but he has made more money than more he has lost. John Teeling has been in the mining and exploration business since 1969 and says he has had "two or three big winners, that's all" throughout his career, but he has made more money than he has lost. In the second part of the...

The Fiscal Advisory Council and the Irish Tourist Industry Confederation both launched pre-budget submissions this week. FAC chairman Seamus Coffey urges caution and tells presenter Ciarán Hancock that the body will be watching with interest to see what Leo Varadkar and Paschal Donohoe will do with their first budget. In the second part of the show, Irish Tourist Industry Confederation chief execu...

On today's podcast, Eoin Burke-Kennedy on the ongoing social housing shortage and Joe Brennan has the details of new Irish property venture, Oaktree, which hopes to list on the Irish stock market. In the second half of the show, Mark Paul and Martin Wall are in studio to talk about WRC hearings relating to working conditions for grooms and exercise riders at Ballydoyle racing yard. Hosted on Acast...

Irish Times journalists discuss the big business stories of the week. This week: Mark Paul on INM's boardroom battle, Barry O'Halloran on Cerberus's moves against debtors in the courts and Sean Quinn's move into online betting, and Fiona Reddan on the massive increase in rents - bad news for tenants, but a big opportunity for homeowners with a spare room. Hosted by Ciaran Hancock. Produced in asso...

"An absolutely magnificent idea", is how economist Jim Power views the prospect of Athlone City. He joins Destination Athlone Chairman John O'Sullivan and Irish Times business journalist Mark Paul to discuss the Westmeath town's push to be designated a regional city under the State’s new spatial plan. In the second part of the show, Cliff Taylor and presenter Ciarán Hancock go through the UK's Bre...

According to a new economic outlook from Goodbody Stockbrokers this week, Ireland’s economy is returning to its “previous peak” with close to full employment and domestic spending back at 2007 levels. So, has Ireland's economy really emerged from a "lost decade"?Irish Times business journalist Fiona Reddan joins presenter Laura Slattery and deputy business editor Dominic Coyle to discuss the repor...

President of the Irish Exporters Association Nicola Byrne explains why Ireland is “way ahead of the posse” in preparing for Brexit. There is still a lot to do, but there is also a “huge amount that can happen in the right direction” for Ireland after Britain leaves the European Union, she tells presenter Cliff Taylor. They are joined by associate research professor at the Economic and Social Resea...

The wheels are starting to come off the German auto industry, with the country’s five biggest car makers facing allegations that they have engaged in cartel-like behaviour for more than a decade. Speaking on the latest podcast, Irish Times Berlin Correspondent Derek Scally says the industry, worth around €400 billion to the German economy annually, is too big to fail, but if the latest allegations...

We return to the topic of Brexit. Patrick Smyth in Brussels has the latest on negotiations between the EU and UK taking place this week. Joe Brennan tells us about the latest announcements and rumours around banking and insurance moves, while Eoin Burke Kennedy looks at the impact so far on Irish industries. In part two our resident motoring expert Michael McAleer explains the financing method tha...

We look over the components of Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe's summer statement on the public finances. Is there any need for a rainy day fund at all? What kind of capital investment should be prioritised? Should the 9% VAT rate for tourism go? Cliff Taylor, Jim Power and Joe Brennan join Ciarán Hancock to tackle those questions and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more info...

As our absent host Ciaran Hancock pointed out in his column this week, few tears will have been shed among the public at news that motor insurance providers were raided yesterday by the European Commission. But what's really going on behind closed doors in the industry? Joe Brennan and Cliff Taylor explain why lower premiums are unlikely, no matter what the outcome of investigations. Then Eoin Bur...

Sherry Fitzgerald founder Mark FitzGerald is Ciarán Hancock's guest on the Inside Business podcast. He talks about the need for radical thinking to solve the housing crisis, recalls his time in the estate agent business and a few memories of his late father Garret, and shares some tips for first time buyers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Northern Irish hotelier and managing director of the Hastings chain of hotels, Howard Hastings, was in Dublin this week to announce plans for a £53 million investment in a new hotel in Belfast called the Grand Central, which will be the city's largest once completed. He spoke to Ciaran Hancock about his new hotel and about tourism in Belfast, which he says is "sound" and has not yet been affected...

Will the UK's hung parliament lead to a softer Brexit? Maybe according to Director General of The British Irish Chamber of Commerce John McGrane. But it would take "somebody of the unique 'backflipability' of a Boris Johnson to come out and say: I've looked into my heart, de Valera-like, and I've read the will of the people and it's for a soft Brexit."He is joined by economist Jim Power to discuss...

As Michael Noonan prepares to hang up his boots at the Department of Finance, former Labour TD Pat Rabbitte and IBEC's Danny McCoy join Cliff Taylor and Ciarán Hancock to discuss his legacy. In the second part of the show, Laura Slattery and Davin O'Dwyer are in studio to talk about the announcements made at Apple's conference on Monday, including that Amazon Prime will now be available on Apple T...

With an expected price tag of €3 billion, the AIB flotation green-lighted by the Finance Minister Michael Noonan on Tuesday, will be one of the biggest in Europe in recent years. Does that mean the government will have extra money to spend on much-needed infrastructure once the sale goes through? Not exactly, Cliff Taylor tells the latest Inside Business podcast. Under restrictive EU rules, the go...

In the early 1990's John Fitzpatrick went to New York to run a new hotel owned by his father. Today, Fitzpatrick is now one of New York hospitality's most well known names, and his two hotels are havens for Irish visitors to the city. In the 25 years in between he has seen many ups and downs in the trade, from the post-9/11 downturn to monthly Celtic Tiger-era shopping trips by the wealthy Irish,...

Exporters, particularly in the agri-food sector, are already beginning to feel the Brexit pinch, according to Enterprise Ireland. Is enough being done to protect the economy from restricted access to the UK market? Can that damage be offset by growth in the financial services sector? And will we have enough homes to house all the new bankers? To discuss all this we're joined by economist Jim Power...

The path has been paved for the government and public sector unions to enter into talks on a new pay deal for the country’s 300,000 State employees, following the publication of the report of the Public Sector Pay Commission yesterday. On the latest Inside Business podcast, Industry Correspondent Martin Wall joins Director of Research at Savills Ireland, John McCartney, to discuss what will be the...

Trenchant ground is being staked out in Brussels and in London, as Brexit posturing continues before any real talks get underway. In this episode, Laura Slattery steps in for Ciarán Hancock to lead the team in a look at this and some of the other big stories of the week. It was a good day for the exchequer today, as the Central Bank’s annual report recorded a profit of 2.3bn euro for 2016. Eoin Bu...

What role if any will traditional bricks and mortar banks play in the future dominated by disruptive technology like AI, robotics and social media? For the first ever Inside Business episode recorded in front of a live audience, we asked three of Ireland's top experts to predict the future of the industry. The panel: David Duffy, chief executive of CYBG (Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank) in the UK an...