Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam
Episodes
Friday's business news headlines
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Aidan donnelly from Davys and Tom McEnaney brings us Friday's business new headlines.
Newstalk’s Green Businessperson Of The Month
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joining Tom on the show is Newstalk’s Green Businessperson Of the Month is Oscar Lai, Director and Co-founder of Ecoset. All with thanks...
The business of Smurfit Westrock
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The biggest cardboard box maker in the world Smurfit Westrock has trimmed its expectations for annual profits and the markets really didn't like it.&n...
Chief Executive of Vodafone Ireland Sabrina Casalta
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There’s been a lot of talk about our infrastructure deficit and how to circumvent it. There’s no doubt that major physical digging needs to ...
Today's business news review
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's business news review with Joe Lynam.
The pre-portioned home preparation business is growing here
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The rising cost of going to a restaurant for a proper meal probably hasn't escaped your attention. It means that many of us are trying to cook q...
Wednesday's business news healdines
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Lynam takes a look at Wednesday's business news headlines.
Duncan Graham, Managing Director of Hidden Hearing
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Around 2.2% of the population has a hearing-related disability. The HSE suggests that as many as 8% have the much broader "disabling hearing loss...
David Smith the Deputy Chief Executive of Echelon
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One sector which knows a bit about objections is the Data Centre industry. David Smith is building a large one in Arklow as we speak and hoping ...
Turnover was up 4% at Maxol to €486m last year
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The budget 3 weeks ago increased the cost of fuel up to an average of €1.72 per litre of petrol and €1.68 for diesel. We’ve also learned t...
Tuesday's business news headlines
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tuesday's business news headlines along with Joe Lynam.
EIB to boost Ireland's district heating scheme
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is the finance arm of the EU. It provides loans and grants for projects which it believes will support start u...
Singapore Prime Minister on new global trade order
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Singapore is on the other side of the world, and like Ireland is a small and very open economy. It relies on free trade and has grown wealthy on FDI. ...
Friday's business news
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kate English, Chief Economist from Deloitte, joined Joe this morning to look at all the business news.
Mark Loftus the founder of Paddy Box
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ireland is a nation of emigrants, explorers and travellers and many of us miss the flavours of home when we’re abroad. Paddy Box is the compan...
Business news headlines
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Business news headlines along with Joe Lynam.
Support need if Dublin is to be Europe’s Silicon Valley
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a year since the Dublin taskforce reported and the changes have been incremental at best and glacial at worst. Dublin accounts for 5...
Enabling small investors to get in at the seed funding
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wonder why the big venture capitalists get all the financial upside of a startup while retail investors have to wait until after the floatation? ...
Is the Argentinian economy worth saving?
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Argentina's Peso has fallen to an all-time low against the U.S. Dollar and has now collapsed by 99.8% since 2009. Now the Trump administration wants t...
Wednesday's business news
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Lynam takes a look at today's business news headlines.
Chris Upton the Chief Executive Havas Dublin
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Every year the French media buying giant Havas carries out a large consumer survey about brands. Which ones are up and which are on the wane.&nb...
Tuesday's business news
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A look at Tuesday's business news headlines with Joe Lynam.
The business of Ericsson
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ericsson used to make mobile phones in the 1990s and 2000s before switching to the sale of the kit that mobile operators need to get their signals out...
NorDan is rapidly scaling across Ireland
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
NorDan, a Scandinavian windows and doors manufacturer, is rapidly scaling across Ireland with a 5 million euro investment and creating 30 new jobs in ...
Monday's business news review
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Healy look at Monday business news headlines along with Russ Mould from AJ Bell.
Mark O’Sullivan the High Potential Start-Up Founder of the Year
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For ambitious Irish entrepreneurs, getting the right support to scale quickly can make all the difference. One of those who’s done just that is Mark...
Friday's business news and markets
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Friday's business news and markets with Joe Lynam and Aidan Donnelly from Davys.
The business of Workday software company
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Workday is a Californian software company which handles financial and HR issues using the cloud. They were voted by Fortune magazine in the Top 5 comp...
A new route for China shipping
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Shipping still transports the vast majority of products around the world. The longer the journey the more it costs per item. But the attacks on s...
Thursday's business news
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Lynam takes a run through the business news pages this morning.
Will selling cars become a lot less profitable than it was?
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Now days we do much of our shopping for cars online and some even buy the vehicle without setting foot in it. Much of that is thanks to platform...
A new broadband product specifically aimed at SMEs
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
SIRO is the broadband provider set up by Vodafone and the ESB to provide high speed internet all over the country but mainly to smaller towns and larg...
Ardian Mula the Chief Executive of Foodhub
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Foodhub is a smaller rival to Diveroo and JustEatbut. Foodhub was set up by an Albanian immigrant in England who is now moving his global HQ to Dubli...
Marc Van Huet the CFO of Calor Ireland
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Calor offers bottled gas solutions as well as liquid petroleum gas for companies and home heating. Now Calor is opening dispensing stations...
Wednesday's business news review
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wednesday's business news review with Joe Lynam.
Trump's tariffs on China
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Those who thought that Trump’s tariff wars had died down a bit were given a rude awakening at the weekend when he slapped a new 100% tariff on all C...
EU commission sided with the airlines over luggage fees
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last week the EU commission sided with the airlines when it said that Spain was wrong to fine airlines for charging customers to take their bags onto ...
Tuesday's business news review
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tuesday's business news review with Joe Lynam.
The business of coffee
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The average price of a cup of coffee increased by more than a fifth in the EU last year. It was as much as 40% in Estonia and a mere 10% here in Irela...
Maurice Mortell the chair of Digital Infrastructure Ireland
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An estimated $5.2 Trillion worth of investment is set to go into data centres over the 5 years to meet the huge, anticipated demand for AI services.&n...
Monday's business news headlines
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Monday's business news headlines along with Joe Lynam and Russ Mould fro AJ Bell.
The business of plastic surgery
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Whether it’s a facelift, liposuction, breast augmentation or hair transplants, demand for plastic or corrective surgery in this country is growing b...
Anton Tsonev the Global Head of Tax with SumUp
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
VAT was introduced first in the 1970s as a ‘temporary tax’. 50 years later it raises over €1 trillion for European exchequers and is going nowhe...
Friday's business news
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Lynam is joined by Kate English from Deloitte to look through Friday business news headlines.
Findings of the latest Myhome.ie survey
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Irish house prices rose nationwide by around 8% last year amid rising real wages and very limited supply of homes. Now the latest myHome.ie surv...
Thursday's business news review
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Lynam takes a look at today's business news headlines.
Government to spend €275bn on infrastructure over the next 10 years
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There’s been a lot of talk about Infrastructure this week in the budget. The IMF says our physical infrastructure lags 31% behind competitor n...
What does Budget 2026 mean for companies large and small?
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So we know what the government will spend our money on next year. Some groups will be happy but most ordinary taxpayers won't be any better off ...
Wednesday's business headlines
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wednesday's business headlines along with Joe Lynam.
What can we expect from today's budget
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Soon today Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe will rise to his feet in the Dail and let us know what the government intends to spend your money on next ...
Today's business new headlines
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's business new headlines with Joe Lynam.
What do small businesses need from budget 2026?
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So we heard from Colm about the macro picture and what we might expect later today from the government but what should small businesses expect and wha...
Some notable changes for bank customers have come into force
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Some pretty notable changes for bank customers came into force over the weekend. One of the changes SEPA or instant payments will mean transfe...
The business of Foresight Group
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Foresight Group is a private equity group which invests in Irish infrastructure and especially in the renewable energy space. They are curre...
Business news review
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Leonie Maccann from Irish Life Investment Mgt joined Joe to run through Monday's business news headlines.
Friday's business news review
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Friday's business news review with Joe Lynam and Austin Hughes.
EU's Financial Services Commissioner Maria Luis Albuquerque
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The EU Commission is launching the Savings and Investment Union to encourage more of us to put our unused money into European companies. But to ...
Thursday business news headlines
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thursday business news headlines with Joe Lynam.
The business of Fleet Connect
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Cotter started in the fruit markets in Dublin aged 14 and graduated into the telecoms sector by putting wifi on buses and coaches. Now h...
Darren Sherry CEO of Galetech
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump told the UN last week that climate change and decarbonisation were the greatest frauds of the 21st century. But the business and scientif...
David Burt the Premier and Finance Minister of Bermuda
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The tiny island of Bermuda in the North Atlantic is home to some of the largest insurance and reinsurance companies in the world. They pay for much of...
Enterprise Ireland’s International markets week
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Differing customs, languages, currencies and product standards make it tricky. Add in the fact that the Euro is 11% more expensive against the d...
Business news headlines review
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Business news headlines review with Joe Lynam.
Shane O’Sullivan the Chief Executive of the IMI
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Irish Management Institute is worried that senior Irish executives are falling behind their international rivals because they lack some of the lea...
Merck Life Science world’s first climate neutral manufacturing facility in Cork
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Merck has been active in Ireland for decades making products for hospital environments as well as life sciences. Now Merck Group, which is based...
Tuesday's business news review
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tuesday's business news review with Joe Lynam.
How can airports protect themselves against cyber-attacks?
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Just over a week ago, Heathrow and Brussels were among a slew of European airports disabled by a cyber-attack. The origins of the attack aren’t clea...
What is the 'digital euro'?
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The proposed Digital Euro gives spending power for those without banks and to have a Currency which bypasses the giant American card companies such as...
Monday's business news review
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kathleen Brooks from XTB looks at today's business news headlines along with Joe Lynam.
Friday's business news review
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kate English - Deloitte looks at today's business news headlines along with Joe Lynam.
Bernard Flynn of Elis is our Green Person Of The Month
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Elis is a company that provides the garments and gowns to prevent any human matter from getting into the clean room for giants such as Intel. ...
Report shows the consumers are in ‘watch and worry’ mode
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Personal consumption accounts for 27% of Irish GDP. Stripping out the multinational sector, that figure zooms to around 60% of Modified domestic...
We need to provide the infrastructure for the AI revolution
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dell is worried that Ireland is set to miss the boat when it comes to providing the infrastructure for the AI revolution including grid connections, w...
Latest quarterly economy report from the ESRI think tank
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Although less onerous than feared, the new 15% tariff regime represents a clear deterioration in Ireland’s trading environment. Despite that, ...
Thursday's business news headlines
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thursday's business news headlines along with Joe Lynam.
A big shake up for gig economy workers
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2023 the Supreme Court made a key ruling in the employment space which makes it much tougher for freelancers to have arms length contracts with the...
New rules for individual parcels arriving into Europe
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last month Donald Trump scrapped the old de minimus rule for parcels coming into America, which allowed small packages to arrive tariff-free for US co...
Wednesday's business news
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wednesday's business news with Joe Lynam.
Tuesday's business news
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Lynam brings us through Tuesday's business news headlines.
Do high value technology jobs have a far higher multiplier effect?
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Carl Benedict Frey thinks that high value technology jobs have a far higher multiplier effect than manufacturing jobs. Ie each highly skille...
Daryl Hanberry Head of Tax and Legal with Deloitte Ireland
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are exactly two weeks out from the budget, and although the leaking of tax or spending measures hasn't begun in earnest yet, we’re starting to ge...
How do we get more women in senior roles?
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There are twenty listed companies on the main ISEQ index of share on Euronext Dublin but only two of them are chaired by women and no female Chief Exe...
Monday's business news review
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Monday's business news review along with Joe Lynam and Ross Mould from AJ Bell.
The business of Comcast Ireland
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The American telecoms and broadcasting giant Comcast bought Sky in 2019 from Rupert Murdoch. Ggiving it a large footprint in the Irish TV and broadban...
How do investors handle the global tariff war?
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Economic growth has been sluggish in Europe over the past 20 years. Few of the big new technology companies originate from here and red tape is ...
How every parcel from company to consumer faces US tariff
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since last month every parcel no matter how small that is sent from a company to a consumer in the US faces a tariff. It means that if you're an Iris...
Friday's business news review
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Lynam and Aidan Donnelly from Davys brings us Friday's business news review.
Thursday's business news headlines
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thursday's business news headlines along with Joe Lynam.
Latest quarterly economic bulletin from the Central Bank of Ireland
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The latest quarterly economic bulletin from the Central Bank of Ireland is out. On the upside Modified Domestic Demand which is a measure of growth, h...
The business of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You're probably aware of the SEAI grants that you can get for your home to install solar panels or better windows and insulation. But the Authority al...
Government to host public procurement conference
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Public procurement involves governments advertising to companies, encouraging them to apply or tender for State-backed contracts. It could be to...
Wednesday's business news review
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tuesday's business news review, along with Joe Lynam.
Is the lack of young people going into trades a cause for concern ?
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The arrival of AI means quite a few white collar jobs will become redundant in the very near future. It also means that those who work with thei...
A record 44% of food producers are pausing investment
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's time to dig out your wellies for the National Ploughing Championships. But a new study from the consultants Ifac suggests that tariffs and geopo...
Ger Corbett Chief Executive of the Sandyford biz district.
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
They used to be known as industrial estates but given very few of them physically make stuff these days, they’re now known as business districts.&nb...
Tuesday's business news review
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tuesday's business news review along with Joe Lynam.
Many Irish adults have no financial arrangements at all for their retirement
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
More than a quarter of Irish adults still have no financial arrangements at all for their retirement, according to new research published today by the...
Fuel smuggling at an all-time high
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Solid Fuel Merchants Ireland has warned that fuel smuggling and courier-dropped pallets are now at an all-time high, threatening rural jobs and depriv...
The ACORNS programme supporting early-stage female entrepreneurs
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The ACORNS programme has been designed to support early-stage female entrepreneurs living in rural Ireland and runs over six months part-time. &n...
What are the top concerns for Irish businesses?
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Energy costs, global uncertainty and labour shortages are the top concerns for Irish businesses, in a new survey from Irish B2B telecommunications pro...