Everyday Business with Aidan Donnelly

Few executives have played a more influential role in shaping Ireland’s premium consumer technology retail sector over the past decade than Ciarán McCormack, CEO of Select Technology Group, the Irish-owned business behind some of the most recognisable names in technology and consumer electronics retail. As the leader of what has become the largest Apple Premium Reseller network in the UK and Irela...

John Concannon is one of Ireland’s best-known entrepreneurs and the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of JFC Group, a global manufacturing company headquartered in Tuam, Co. Galway. In 1987, while working in the calf-trading business, he developed the innovative “Triple Bucket” calf feeder, a simple but highly effective product that enabled farmers to feed multiple calves simultaneously. The ide...

Michael Hynes is the Chief Executive and co-founder of Evara, one of Ireland’s leading residential development companies and the country’s largest private homebuilder by annual housing completions. Michael has been at the forefront of Evara’s growth story since its formation in 2019, helping to build a business that has delivered thousands of new homes and played a significant role in addressing I...

Today’s guests are two of the most respected strategic thinkers in Ireland’s communications and brand advisory sector, Sharon Mooney and James Dunne, the co-founders of Hyphen Strategy, a Dublin-founded strategic and creative consultancy that helps organisations create a competitive edge through the fusion of strategic intelligence and creative storytelling. Hyphen was established in 2022 and has...

Qashio is one of the fastest-growing spend management platforms serving businesses across Europe and the Middle East. They help companies issue unlimited virtual and physical corporate cards with customisable spending controls, automate expense management, and gain real-time visibility over company spend. In addition, their rewards ecosystem allows businesses to earn points and miles with leading...

Fidelma McGuirk is the CEO and founder of Payslip, a technology company delivering payroll control, integration and automation AI. With 20+ years’ experience scaling international business and leading multinational teams across global HR & IT functions, McGuirk identified the need for a technology solution to help multinational employers standardise and centrally manage their global payroll. P...

John Corley is Co-founder and CEO of Spanish Point Technologies, a Dublin-headquartered company that builds enterprise software products and intelligent Microsoft-native cloud platforms, and that modernise complex organisations at scale. He has over 30 years of experience in the technology sector, beginning his career in software development in the early 1990s. In 2005, he co-founded Spanish Point...

Biraj Rath is the CEO of Braahmam International, a global language services and market-expansion firm he co-founded in 2000. The business has grown from a localisation specialist into a strategic international growth partner for enterprise brands across Fintech, eCommerce, SaaS, and eLearning. Under his leadership, Braahmam has built a remarkable track record — serving over 250 clients worldwide,...

Clann Credo was established by the Presentation Order of nuns in 1996. While social finance was a well-established concept in America and Europe, there was nothing like it in Ireland. After a successful pilot project, the Presentation nuns put €1m seed capital into a social investment fund. Other religious charities chipped in, and now Clann Credo also borrows money from the Social Finance Foundat...

Ciaran Mulligan is an Irish entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former managing director of Blue Insurance and now, the founder of YES Insurance. Over more than two decades, he has become one of Ireland’s most recognisable figures in the niche insurance sector. In 2003, Mulligan co-founded Blue Insurance alongside Rowan Devereux. Initially focused on travel insurance, the company quickly...

The Keogh family have been farming in North County Dublin for over 200 years growing fresh produce, particularly potatoes, and supplying the local markets. As part of the farming community for generations, being a good neighbour and supporting local communities is very much part of the Keogh Family Ethos. Tom Keogh, is a director of the family business, who has guided it through considerable indus...

Exemplar is Ireland’s trusted energy advisor, combining deep market expertise with personal, dependable service for businesses that cannot afford to get energy decisions wrong. They bring together expertise across energy procurement, market trading, engineering and on-the-ground performance. This joined-up capability allows them to look beyond price alone and help clients make smarter, more defens...

DPD Ireland is one of Ireland’s leading parcel delivery and logistics providers, specialising in domestic and international courier services for businesses and consumers. The company operates as part of Geopost (formerly DPDgroup), the parcel and express delivery arm of La Poste, the French national postal service. DPD Ireland delivers tens of millions of parcels each year through a franchise-base...

RKD is a leading international design and architecture practice with 113 years of heritage, redefining architecture through design-led solutions that balance scale with intimacy and precision with purpose. From transforming the Guinness Storehouse into the world's number one tourist attraction to designing LinkedIn's first purpose-built European headquarters, RKD delivers projects that are technic...

Neil Skeffington is the CEO and founder of Meath based Novelplast, an innovative PET plastic recycling company.  Beginning operations in late 2019, Neil’s passion for sustainability in  plastics and developing the circular economy has grown the company sales into a diverse range of industries, employing 60 people and becoming the largest PET recycling plant in Ireland by some distance. Neil has sp...

Colm Lyon is a payments and fintech entrepreneur with more than 30 years’ experience in financial services, spanning banking, payments infrastructure, regulation and digital transformation. He founded Realex Payments in 2000, at an early stage of online commerce in Ireland and the UK. Realex grew rapidly alongside the rise of e-commerce and became one of Europe’s leading online payment service pro...

Village Vets is Ireland’s largest privately owned, vet-led veterinary group, delivering premium companion-animal care to communities across the country. Founded on clinical excellence and local ownership, Village Vets has grown into a market-leading organisation caring for hundreds of thousands of pets every year, supported by a nationwide team of veterinary surgeons, nurses, animal care teams and...

In 2020, Niamh Tallon co-founded Her Sport, a pioneering social enterprise dedicated to increasing visibility, participation and equality for girls and women in sport. Combining her background in business and marketing with a lifelong passion for sport, she recognised a significant gap in media coverage and role-modelling for female athletes in Ireland. Rather than simply study the issue, she acte...

Operating for over 50 years, Dentaltech Group is a multi-award-winning, second-generation dental company leading the way in digital dental innovation. It now operates four state-of-the-art clinics across Ireland, offering comprehensive dental care including teeth cleaning, composite bonding, and implants, with a special focus on 3D-printed digital dentures and smile-enhancing treatments. Sitting i...

It’s the first podcast of 2026 and as they say, go big or go home. We are only a few weeks away from the start of the 6 Nations, and joining me is Ronan Dunne - a Chairman, CEO, Board Strategic Advisor and independent non-executive director. Between 2016 and 2022, he served at Verizon, as President and CEO of Verizon Wireless, Verizon Consumer Group and most recently as strategic advisor to the CE...

Jim Barry is the Managing Director at Barry Group. The business was founded by his late father in 1955, and under Jim’s vision and leadership, it has grown from a once local business to a leading wholesale distribution company. The Barry Group is one of Ireland’s leading retail food and alcohol wholesale providers, servicing over 1,600 customers through a central distribution centre and company ow...

Enda McDonagh grew up in Tallaght attending St Mary's National School and Templeogue College. He went on to study B Comm in UCD followed by a Masters in Accounting in the Smurfit Business School. He joined Craig Gardner Price Waterhouse (one half of what later became PwC) in 1994 via the annual milk-round recruitment sweep of universities that the big accounting firms all do. Enda worked as an aud...

Jessie Collins is a Dublin-based editorial and content strategist with over two decades of experience crafting compelling brand narratives and leading multi-platform storytelling across Ireland’s most respected media, lifestyle, and cultural platforms. Throughout her career, she has steered award-winning editorial teams, launched pioneering initiatives, and helped shape the content landscape for b...

David Cawley has 20 years’ experience in the acoustic and audio engineering industry and will argue that he had been working in the field for the previous 20 years as he began playing music in the family music school at 3 years of age. In 2010 he founded the acoustic and audio design consultancy Allegro Acoustics, and as CEO, he led Allegro Acoustics to become a frontrunner in the European acousti...

Hailing from Barna in Co. Galway, Lorraine Heskin studied in University of Limerick before heading off to New York for 4 years working in a diverse range of food businesses. On returning to Dublin in 2006, she founded the Gourmet Food Parlour, opening its first 25-seater café in Dun Laoghaire. Since then, it has evolved to become Dublin’s most trusted restaurant group, with 12 locations across Dub...