Joe Lynam

Isn't it also fair to say that Ireland is a small country and it's never going to have the infrastructure, even for data centres or AI investment, that maybe it should concentrate its efforts elsewhere?

And who's to blame for that?

Is that the law, or is it the legal system, or is it just individual NIMBYs that just object to everything?

Well, Maurice, thank you very much for coming in.

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

It is Monday the 13th of October coming up to 6.32.

Coming up on today's show we'll be talking to the boss of McCabe's Coffee and we'll be looking at whether Ireland will miss the AI boat due to the lack of data centres and all the markets as usual.

You can email us business at newstalk.com.

But first, let's have a look at the main international business stories in the newspapers and websites, which we shall do in the amazing company of Ross Mould from AJ Bell.

Good morning, Ross.

I had a lovely weekend in Bristol and back in the West Country, which was lovely.

And we got lovely weather and got in a bit of rugby as well.

It was a very nice weekend.

Very good.

Now, Friday, when we arrived in Bristol Friday night, was very tumultuous because Mr. Trump decided to put out a tweet.

And just before that, there was a massive crash in cryptos.

20 minutes, 20 minutes before the post on Truth Social, a huge short position on cryptocurrencies was taken out.