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Presented by Newstalk's Business Editor Joe Lynam, this 30-minute programme focuses on the key business stories from home and abroad, market analysis, new business innovations and profile interviews. CONVERSATION THAT COUNTS | Ireland’s national independent talk station for news, sport, analysis and entertainment Listen to Newstalk at http://newstalk.com/listenlive | Download the GoLoud app now, the new home for Newstalk
Brightbeam advises companies in the biopharma, life sciences, insurance and manufacturing sectors about how to use AI. Brightbeam even thinks that Ireland might have an edge in the roll out of AI globally. It comes as the White House literally ordered Anthropic to switch off its latest powerful iteration of Claude. Brian Hanly, Chief executive of Brightbeam spoke to Joe on the show this morning.
The National Economic Dialogue started this week. It’s where the main social partners sit with the government to underline what they want and what's realistic in October’s budget. The Minister for Finance has already flagged that change is coming for how we invest our private funds. Patricia Callan the Director of Financial services Ireland was at the meeting yesterday and explained to Joe what happened during the course of the day.
Joe Lynam takes a look at Tuesday's business news headlines.
Many people don't gardens or gardens big enough to grow lettuce or herbs and may not live beside a supermarket to buy it fresh. Hedley Aylott runs Home Harvest which is a special smart device which looks like a fridge to grow your greens and herbs in. Joe hears all about the business with Co-Founder of Home Harvest Hedley Aylott.
Even though we are all supposed to be moving towards fossil-free fuel methods of heating our homes, demand for boilers has never been as strong. Grant in Birr Co Offaly makes more than half of all the boilers sold in Ireland and astonishingly 56% of all the boilers sold in Britain. Joining Joe to discuss the business was Keith Scully the Training Manager at Grant.
Monday's business news review with Joe Lynam along with Kathleen Brooks Research Director from XTB.
New figures show first-time buyer mortgages for new homes have surged across the country by 50% since 2021. While mover activity has fallen in every region For more on this Susan was joined by the Chief Economist of BPFI, Ali Ugur.
Europe's mobile industry is now worth more than €1 trillion a year to the EU economy, according to new figures published ahead of Ireland taking over the EU presidency Speaking to Susan this morning was the Director General of the GSMA, Vivek Badrinath.
Friday's business headlines with Susan Jane Culleton and Aidan Donnelly from Davys.
Now, Kilkenny Design with The Local Enterprise Offices has today announced the launch of the Kilkenny Design Makers Academy, a business development programme designed to support ambitious local makers, designers and creative entrepreneurs to build sustainable and scalable businesses.The program will see 25 business get their chance to learn the key skills to grow their business under the guise of Kilkenny Designs and their Local Enterprise OfficeTo share all the details of this exciting opportunity for Irish businesses Evelyn Moynihan, CEO of Kilkenny Design, joined Susan Hayes Culleton in for Joe to discuss
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