Joe Lynam

Breakfast Business with Enterprise Ireland on Newstalk.

Breakfast Business with Enterprise Ireland on Newstalk.

Around 2.2% of the population has a hearing-related disability and the HSE suggests that as many as 8% have a much broader disabling hearing loss.

Good morning and welcome to Breakfast Business and thank you to Shane Beattie.

It is Wednesday the 29th of October at 6.30.

Coming up on today's show we'll be talking to the home cooking and meal kit delivery service Gusto and we'll be chatting to the boss of Hidden Hearing and all the markets as usual.

The technology has advanced now to the point that hearing aids are so small and effective that they are all but invisible.

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With the stresses that the HSE are under, finding private solutions is increasingly the way thousands of us solve the problem of poor hearing.

And the second biggest company for that in Ireland...

with 85 clinics nationwide, is Hidden Hearing.

And Duncan Graham is the Managing Director of Hidden Hearing.

Good morning, Duncan.

Morning, Joe.

What's your definition of poor hearing?

I know you're not necessarily a doctor, but if you start cupping your ears in a pub when you're chatting to your mates,

I'm not quite at that stage yet, Duncan, but...

Neither am I. And so you'd suggest if there is a concern, go to an audiologist, and I'm sure you know a good one or two, in your 85 clinics.

Now, you've got some fairly high-tech kit.

I mentioned that some of these devices are all but invisible.