Joe Lynam

Great to have you on.

You must be quite relieved to get the report out there after all the work that you did over the last few months.

That's a 7% margin.

Is that higher or lower than other European markets for EUSC?

And were you surprised that the government accepted nearly everything that you suggested and there wasn't as much dilution as many of these reports and action plans face?

The revenues were made up of 4.9 million in room revenues and 5.2 million in other revenues.

Reuters reports that the European Commission has outlined plans to make the European Union more resilient to threats such as rare earth supply crunches by improving existing trade measures and using new defences to bolster economic security.

And they include opening up new stores, as we mentioned.

You've got 30 stores in Ireland and that will soon be 36.

The EU executive set out what it called an economic security doctrine for the 27-nation bloc, which is contending with US tariffs and Chinese restrictions that have choked supplies of essential rare earths and chips.

Can you tell us where the six other ones might be?

The bloc wants to remain a global manufacturing leader, but risks being left behind by China and the United States in new technologies such as batteries and AI.

I presume you're opening up in urban centres where there are large populations.

And Dublin Live reports that the record-breaking storm Eoin was the most searched Google term of the year in Ireland.

The storm which battered the country in January was one of the most potent to hit the country since the 1800s.

And can the Irish market sustain that many furniture stores?

The public also turned to Google to decipher how to pronounce the storm's name with how to pronounce Eoin ranking the third most popular how-to search term.

Not just Jysk, but there's obviously lots of other furniture stores around.

We've spoken a lot about the changing in judicial reviews, but apart from that, what do you think is the single most important of the 30 points?

In the year when Ireland welcomed a new president for the first time in 14 years, the election significantly influenced the most searched lists.