Breakfast Business

Almost 100,000 people have come to Ireland over the past year most of them fleeing the war in Ukraine.  They also bring skills with them but may often need some sort of retraining in order to fill the glaring vacancies that many employers have in this economy.  The online marketplace giant eBay is working with the Irish Refugee Council to help with interview skills as well as providing more mundane items such as nappies and kids’ toys. Speaking to Joe this morning Siobhan Curtin is eBay Ireland’s Director. 

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

Should we be worried about the health of the world's second-largest economy - China?  It’s officially in deflation and interest rates are going down in order to stoke up a very weak economy that is facing a huge property crash thanks to a mountain of debt.  If it plunges into recession it would almost certainly affect the rest of the world. To discuss further Joe spoke to the former Goldman Sachs Strategic Adviser Jens Nordvig who now runs a think tank called Exante.

Irish pyjama company, JimJams has announced a partnership with an Indian Social empowerment programme for women #ProjectThrive  Deirdre Adams, Founder of Irish Pyjama Company JimJams joined Jonathan this morning with more on the new partnership.

Over the weekend, the EU Digital Services Act came into force.  The law is designed to curb potentially harmful practices carried out through online service providers and large social media platforms such as Amazon, TikTok, and Facebook.    With more details on this Jonathan spoke to Deirdre Clune, Fine Gael MEP.

A run-through of some of the business stories today with Jonathan Healy.

There are a lot of Americans in town this weekend.  Most of them are here for American football but a few are also here to take part in a big Cybersecurity Symposium starting today. Attending the Symposium Prof Mitch Kajzer from the University of Notre Dame has carried out a specific initiative to train students to start combatting the swarm of cyber attacks that threaten companies and consumers with increasing regularity.   

This week the Central Bank of Ireland admitted that some people had information held about them on the Central Credit Register for up to 3 months longer than it should have.  It means that up to 20,000 people may have had an adverse credit rating which has underlined the importance of the CCR for all of us.  With more on this Joe was joined on the show by Denis Eustace from Progressive Financial Services.  

A look at today's business papers and markets with Joe Lynam and Austin Hughes – Independent Economist. 

An estimated 40,000 American tourists are set to land in Ireland this weekend just to see a game of football their kind of football.  Notre Dame University takes on the US Navy in a spectacular match to be beamed all around the world.  It’s a jamboree of sport but also promotion and expect a few business deals will be haggled between quarters. Speaking to Joe this morning was Padraic O’Kane, Co-Founder and Director of the Aer Lingus College Football Classic.

The expansion of legal practices in Ireland over the past few years has been phenomenal.  Much of it is due to the surge in investment here from global companies and some of it is down to Brexit and UK lawyers hoping to use Ireland as a springboard to continue selling services into the Single market.  Joe caught up with Alan Connell the managing partner of Eversheds Sutherland who is also the sponsor of our Business Person of the Month, and began by asking him what role Brexit was playing in the rising number of legal practitioners here. 

A look at Thursday's business papers and websites with Newstalk Business Editor Joe Lynam.

With the budget 7 weeks away, expect the various sectors in the economy to start pushing for what they want to see in it. One of the first up is the Employment and Recruitment Federation which wants drastic action to tackle skills shortages and how much tax must be paid by those on average rather than high incomes. Brendan McGinty, Managing Partner, Stratis Consulting as he penned the report for the Employment and Recruitment, Federation joined Joe this morning on the show.

Volkswagen, Virgin Media, Bank of Ireland, and even so-called Influencers were among the entities to have their knuckles rapped by the Advertising Standards Authority last month in its latest quarterly assessment of misleading or inaccurate adverts. The advertising watchdog examined 13 individual cases and fully upheld 9 of them. Speaking to Joe this morning on the show was Orla Twomey, Chief Executive of the ASAI.

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

Jess Kelly will run us through the best laptops to buy when returning to college.

We discuss 'August anxiety' or 'August blues' and why it arises as summer ends due to shorter days and colder weather with Stephaine Regan Clinical Psychotherapist, Media Contributor and Host of the podcast the ToughLove podcast.

We may grumble about the cost of living here in Ireland and moan about the weather and the lack of public transport but for jobseekers around the world, Ireland is the 3rd most popular country in the EU for inbound job searches. But is it only for the money? Joining Joe this morning with more on this was Pawel Adrjan, Director of EMEA Economic Research at the Indeed.com website.

Some of the brightest minds in global engineering gather in Dublin this week for the CIRP assembly to discuss the biggest issues being worked on in labs all over the world including electric cars, 3D printing, robotics, and of course AI. Speaking to Joe this morning Professor Edmond Harty is an innovator and entrepreneur with Innovalogix who previously worked in modernising the dairy sector.

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