Breakfast Business

A look at today's business papers and websites with Joe Lynam.

Today Joe spoke to Barry O'Sullivan, professor of computer science in UCC who became the first Irish person to receive the European Artificial Intelligence Association’s Distinguished Service Award this week.

Mairead Harbron, tax partner with PwC spoke to Joe about how tax’s may be effected after next week’s budget.

Newstalk Business Editor Joe Lynam was joined by Aidan Donnelly from Davys stockbrokers for a look at today's business papers and markets.

The north west of Ireland will need an economic stimulus of more than half a billion Euros to bring it up to the standards enjoyed by the southern and eastern parts of the country. The northern and western regional assembly is calling for a new North West Citizens Assembly.John Daly from the North West Regional Assembly joined Joe to discuss.

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

It’s estimated text scams cost companies and consumers €300m last year.  But how do the fraudsters target companies and what can be done? Dermot Frost from IP Telecom joined Joe.

2012 was the last time that GDP did not grow in a calendar year, but according to the ESRI, 2023 will also see GDP shrink. Associate Research Professor at the ESRI, Conor O'Toole spoke to Joe.

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

Raisin provides details of the best paying interest rates throughout the eurozone with the ability to apply there and then.  They now have a million customers worldwide and €50bn of assets under management.  Katharina Lüth is the Chief Client Officer with Raisin and she spoke to Joe.

Enet is the wholesale broadband provider which emerged from the government’s regional connectivity programme.  It now provides internet services to the likes of Sky and Vodafone and works alongside the National Broadband initiative with what are known as Metropolitan Area Networks. Now it’s been bought by a US private equity group.  Speaking to Joe this morning on the show was John Gilvarry the COO of Enet .

The latest rankings in terms of customer experience are out and as usual, pharmacies are the most trusted sector with the credit unions number one among the public.  But the biggest loser in terms of what consumers felt was the state broadcaster RTE.  it finished last among the 150 best-known brands in the land. Cathy Summers from The CX Company spoke to Joe about these findings.

A run through of some of the business stories today with Joe Lynam.

When you are buying a house, have you ever been gazumped? Has the deal ever fallen through due to legal wranglings and small print? Have you ever walked away from buying a house simply because it wasn’t at all as advertised? All these things will hopefully be addressed when the new conveyancing law comes into force. Pat Davitt, chief executive of the Institute of Professional Auctioneers and Valuers (Ipav) 

Before lockdowns, there were more than 20,000 homes for sale on the myhome.ie website.  Now there are only 13,400.  That lack of supply is keeping house prices high despite soaring interest rates.  The latest quarterly survey suggests that asking prices rose by 4.1% over the past year nationwide.    It all comes as the property sector braces for the budget next week Conall MacCoille is the author of the report from Myhome.ie and spoke to Newstalk Breakfast this morning.

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

15 Years ago one of the most consequential decisions was taken by the then coalition government led by Brian Cowan.  The Irish State would stand over all Irish banks - no matter how solvent they were.  It would lead to Irish taxpayers taking on the debt of the fully insolvent Anglo-Irish bank and nationalising the entire banking sector.  It also plunged the nation into its deepest-ever recession.We take a look at the Bank Guarantee with Aidan Donnelly from Davys and also Brian Hayes is the chief executive of the BPFI - before that, he was a minister in the FG government from 2011 but at the time of the guarantee was a finance spokesperson for the opposition.

A look at Friday's business papers and markets with Aidan Donnelly from Davys.

The PM Group is probably one of the biggest Irish companies that you've never heard of.  Started in Tipperary the Project Management Group builds giant manufacturing facilities or research labs or even distilleries. They have grown globally under their chief executive Dave Murphy and they share their profits with their employees.   Dave Murphy is the chief executive of the PM Group in Ireland and he is this month's BPTM.Our Business Person Of The Month is with thanks to Eversheds Sutherland.

 Much of the success of the German discount supermarkets lies of course in their lower prices.  That’s why they now command between them a quarter of the Irish grocery market.  But it’s not just price.  Both companies no longer source most of their produce from Germany.  They do so a lot closer to home. Only this week Lidl signed a renewed and beefed-up deal with O’Briens Fine Food to supply cooked meat products such as ham and turkey.  But will that push up the price for consumers?   To chat about this and more with Joe was Kevin Duffy, Senior Buying Director for Lidl Ireland.