The Currency Podcast: Gar Holohan
Through the Aura Holohan Group, Gar Holohan runs the largest health and fitness group in the country. After four decades in the business, he has seen the same mistakes be repeated over and over again. He talks to Rosanna Cooney about flipping the negative attitude to investing in social infrastructure in Ireland.
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Ronan Doherty was a co-founder of ElectroRoute in 2011 and remains the chief executive of the Letterkenny-headquartered energy trading company following its full acquisition by Mitsubishi last year. The business boasts over 10 per cent of Ireland’s electricity supply capacity under management, trading its mostly renewable production across Europe, and is now expanding into Japan. Doherty tells Thomas Hubert why he believes ElectroRoute is an essential cog in the system that will wean us off fossil fuels.
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GridBeyond is an Irish company helping businesses around the world manage their energy input using a combination of consumption management, on-site equipment such as batteries and solar panels, and supplier contracts. Its chief executive Michael Phelan gives Thomas Hubert some tips on how to navigate the volatile electricity market and discusses the impact of the ongoing energy crisis on the much-needed transition to low-carbon power.
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Meredith Greif is a Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, USA. Her work focused on the symbiotic relationship between tenants and landlords. “The point of my work,” she told Seán Keyes in this podcast, “is to show that caring about landlords is important because it means caring about tenants. Landlords’ behaviour is so consequential that if you want to help the renter, you have to think about what’s happening to the landlord. And it’s not condoning or looking away from bad landlord behaviour."
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Seven years ago, Sinead Doherty read the tea leaves and predicted that the future of work would be impermanent, flexible, and based on a contractor model. Her company Fenero, which offers tax and payroll solutions for contractors and freelancers, has since reaped the benefits. She talks to Rosanna Cooney about expanding into India and accountancy’s digital transformation.
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French businessman Richard Dujardin lived in Ireland for eight years and won the first operating contract for the Luas. He now chairs NetworkIrlande, the cross-border business group that recently held an awards ceremony in Paris to highlight companies taking part in the current boom in trade and investment between the two countries.
Thomas Hubert was there and he spoke with Dujardin as well as two of the winners, Danone Ireland’s managing director Killian Barry and Martin O’Donnell, commercial director with the ag-tech start-up Terra NutriTech.
They discussed silver linings from Brexit, shifting export patterns and perceptions between the France and Ireland – as well as the value of the Irish pub to business diplomacy.
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From a weekend hobby stall in Temple Bar, Margaret O’Rourke has built MoMuse into an undercover success story. She talks to Rosanna Cooney about building her jewellery business organically without advertising, and the decision to bring her husband Paul O’Rourke into the business.
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In 2007, Tom Lyons went to the Slieve Russell Hotel and heard Sean Quinn deliver a speech in which he reflected on his life but which also foreshadowed much of what was to come.
This weekend Lyons and Ian Kehoe reflect on Quinn's life and all that led to his rise and fall: https://thecurrency.news/podcasts/
Is the recent wave of job cuts by technology companies a structural shift or a necessary realignment? The Currency’s Chief Economics Writer Stephen Kinsella and Senior Correspondent Thomas Hubert join Editor Ian Kehoe to discuss Ireland’s response to the tech slump - including the opportunities arising from it.
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Aubrey Dunne - The Currency Podcast
There will be around 100,000 satellites orbiting the earth by the end of the decade and Ubotica Technologies , an Irish space tech start-up, has developed a machine learning chip that can process images from inside these cereal-boxed sized satellites. Aubrey Dunne, co-founder and chief technology officer, talks to Rosanna Cooney about the potential applications of this observational technology, from spotting crop failure before it's visible on the ground, to identifying forest fires and oil slicks in real-time.
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