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13/02/2024

Self-determination: Why LK Shields remains proudly independent

The Georgian offices of LK Shields greet me with an old-world hush as I climb the stairs to meet with managing partner Richard Curran. It is the Friday afternoon before the bank holiday and it feels like everyone has already left the building or is working from home. This impression turns out not to...

25/01/2023

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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19/01/2023

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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11/01/2023

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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04/01/2023

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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21/12/2022

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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14/12/2022

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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07/12/2022

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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03/12/2022

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.
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02/12/2022

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30/11/2022

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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24/11/2022

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23/11/2022

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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16/11/2022

Leaving the world of mass manufactured alcohol behind, Karen O’Neill founded a new drinks brand with a modern take on mead. BEEKON BATCHES was going gangbusters, O’Neill tells Rosanna Cooney, but then the unimaginable happened and she had a decision to make: to fight on or fail.

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09/11/2022

Siobhán McHugh is the Chief Executive of the Demand Response Association of Ireland, whose members scour businesses for power usage that can be postponed when a surge occurs on the national grid. She tells Thomas Hubert how this emerging industry works and who can take part.

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02/11/2022

Food is an essential and integral part of our existence and our culture, but what if you could see inside your own body in real-time, to know what impact that food is having on you. In this podcast, Rurik Bradbury, chief executive of the heavily backed start-up Limbo, speaks to Rosanna Cooney about glucose monitoring and how it changed his perspective on food entirely.

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26/10/2022

Evelyn Kelly, the founder of Orphan Drug Consulting, works in an industry fraught with difficult decisions. In this podcast, she talks to Rosanna Cooney about her company’s role in bringing medicines to market as quickly as possible, the growth in the orphan drug market, and the challenges of equitable access to medication.

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19/10/2022

The restaurant and hospitality sectors are in the eye of a storm, with a slew of insolvencies and closures expected in the next twelve months. Damien Grey, the two-star Michelin chef, and owner of Liath, talks to Rosanna Cooney about the misguided perception of a restaurant as anything other than a profit-seeking business, his obsession with daily accounts and when to let go and walk away with integrity.

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