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Programme 66: 20 February 2010 (Dave O'Connell presenting)
AIRLINE INDUSTRY IN A TAIL-SPIN?
It was a busy week for airlines with the Ryanair-Hanger 6 controversy, and presenter, Dave O'Connell, met up with Padraig O Ceidigh, of Aer Arann.Padraig O Ceidigh
Aer Arann
Aer Arann, 1 Northwood Avenue, Santry, Dublin 9
01 844 7700
Email: info@aerarann.com
Web: www.aerarann.com
FLYING THE GREEN FLAG IN THE GREEN ZONE
Cork-based Engineering firm, Malachy Walsh & Partners scored big in recent months when they secured a lucrative deal with the Iraqi Government to help construct sports stadia in the new sports city project in Basra. Joanne Hunt reports.Seamus Kelly
Malachy Walsh & Partners
Park House,
Mahon Technology Park,
Bessboro Road, Blackrock, Cork.
021 453 6400
Email: info@mwp.ie
Web: www.mwp.ie
OLD DOGS IN NEW TRICKS SHOCKER
With Ireland's 75+ population to triple by 2026, there are some pretty obvious business opportunities to be had. These opportunities will be discussed at a conference in Dublin on March 3rd. Three of the speakers joined Dave in studio to chat about these issues - and other issues associated with ageing.Orlaith Blaney
McCann Erickson in Iteland
01 676 6366
Web: www.mccann-erickson.ie/
Feargal Quinn, independent senator
01 618 3410
Email: feargal.quinn@oireachtas.ie
Web: www.feargalquinn.ie
Ed Murphy
Home Instead
Web: www.HomeInstead.ie
ST. JOSEPH STRIKES AGAIN
In the latest instalment of our 'St. Joseph sells houses' series, Ronan Kelly travels to Limerick to visit the founder of the Irish Harp Centre, Janet Harbison.The Irish Harp Centre
The Old Schoolhouse
Castleconnell
Co. Limerick
061 - 372 777
Email: info@irishharpcentre.com
Web: www.irishharpcentre.com
EMI'S LAST DANCE?
When venture capitalist Guy Hands took over EMI, he may have bitten off more than he could chew, put too many eggs in the same basket and now the chickens are coming home to roost..Enough Cliches! Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson joined us from New York to explain how it all went pear shaped (I told you - enough cliches!)
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson,
Financial Times,
1 Southwark Bridge,
London SE1 9HL,
England.
Web: www.ft.com
Tel: 0044 207 873 3000
WE USETA LOVE 'EM. BUT WILL THE AUSTRALIANS?
Ollie Jennings, manager of Tuam rockers, the Saw Doctors, joined Dave for a chat about the music business, and why the up-coming Australian tour isn't necessarily the financial suicide it seems.
Web: www.sawdoctors.com
To listen to the full live version of N17 click here
LONDON IN LUXURY
3 nights in 5 star luxury in the centre of London for you and a friendl. Choose any one of Aer Lingus' 32 flights a day from Ireland to London Gatwick or Heathrow, from Dublin, Cork, Shannon, Knock or Belfast.
And all you had to do was answer one simple question. The winner was Conor Leonard of Fairview in Dublin. Terms and conditions apply.. see Competition / Voting Terms and Conditions item on side of page
Web: www.aerlingus.com
Programme 65: 13 February 2010 (Dave O'Connell presenting)
WORTH THE WAITING (ROOM)?
The Waiting Room is destined for the Waiting Room. Tired of the dog-eared copies of Hello and OK in the doctors'/dentists'/hospitals' waiting room? Galway Vet Maurice O'Scanaill and designer Helen Gunning have launched " The Waiting Room", a free glossy mag tailor made for ..waiting rooms! Dave O'Connell took the pair down to the Castle Medical Centre in Galway City to see the magazine in action, and hear how GP Desmond Bluett approves of Meryl Streep.
You can view the mag online at their website.
The Waiting Room Magazine;
Northampton;
Kinvara;
Co. Galway,
Tel; 091 638205;
Web; www.waitingroom.ie/
Email; info@waitingroom.ie For a longer version of the Waiting Room interviews click here
WHO SWIPED MY EXPENSES?
With the news this week that TD and Senators will have to "sign in" or "swipe in" to claim their expenses, we wondered how this is going to work. Well, Ciaran Rowsome is Managing Director of Flextime, the Dublin company who make clocking in and time managent systems, and they are installing their system in the Oireachtas. Ciaran told Dave how it works and how their business is doing.
FlexTime Limited
1 Cranford Centre
Stillorgan Road
Donnybrook
Dublin 4
Ireland
Tel : 01 260 9680
Web: www.flextime.ie
Email: info@flextime.ie
Paddy Plunkett in Liberty Lane
SMELL YOU LATER!
Ronan Kelly, he of the Curious Ear, sent his curious nose out to sniff out the smells of business long gone from the streets of Dublin in the company of Paddy Plunkett, Dublin bus driver. Paddy grew up in Liberty Lane near St. Stephen's Green, in the centre of Dublin. Although only 600 feet long, it was alive with business and its aroma.
For more on The Curious Ear click here
FLUSH IN THE PAN!
Fergal Hannigan worked for 15 years in the shop-fitting business but when things started to get quiet he started on this water saving retro fit device for toilets.. With water charges to kick in soon enough, Fergal reckons his 2Flush system is a runner, cutting water useage by up to 2/3rds. He came across this product in South Africa and wants to make a go of it. So we teamed him up with James Carroll, Managing Director of Investor First, the Dublin company who started as a specialised om residential and commercial investment company. These days they cover real estate brokerage, real estate finance, real estate development and investment management.
2Flush
Tel: 087-258-8155
Web: www.2flush.ie
Email: sales@2flush.ie
Investor First
Homestead,
Sandyford Rd,
Dublin 16, Ireland
Tel: 01 2076 200
Web: www.investorfirst.ie
Email: ireland@investorfirst.ie
Love is.... what causes you to loose your concentration.
LOVE IS.. NOT FOR THE WORKPLACE?
We invited 3 loved up types in to talk about the last great taboo,, the workplace romance! Can it work, what happens when it goes sour, is it fair to your colleagues.? Jennifer Maguire is owner of 'Bella The Makeover Studio' in Dublin and former contender on 'The Apprentice' - the British version. Jack Murray is Managing Director of Mediacontact.ie, and he met his life partner through a work connection. And to give us an overview, there's David Kavanagh who is a Relationship Counsellor with Avalon Relationship Consultants.
Bella The Makeover Studio,
1 Johnsons Place,
Off South Wiliam
Street, Dublin 2
Tel: 01 633 4838/01 633 4850
Web: www.bellamakeover.ie
Email: info@bellamakeover.ie
Mediacontact.ie
8 Greenmount House
Greenmount Office Park
Harold's Cross Road
Dublin 6W
Tel:01 473 2050
Web: www.mediacontact.ie
E-mail: info@mediacontact.ie
Avalon Relationship Consultants
Tel: 01-498 22 42
Web: www.avalonrc.com
Email: info@avalonrc.com
HANDS OFF EMI!
When venture capitalist Guy Hands took over EMI, he may have bitten off more than he could chew, put too many eggs in the same basket and now the chickens are coming home to roost..Enough Cliches! Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson joined us from New York to explain how it all went pear shaped (I told you - enough cliches!)
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson,
Financial Times,
1 Southwark Bridge,
London SE1 9HL,
England.
Web:www.ft.com
Tel: 0044 207 873 3000
Programme 64: 6 February 2010
Espousing the executive role...
Colette Young runs a company called ExecuMate, which specialises in supporting the 'executive spouse'. As the wife of a successful, top corporate executive for 20 years, Colette tells John about the value of being a supportive spouse and all the challenges and opportunities that come with such a role.
Colette Young, President
ExecuMate, LLC
11700 Preston Road, Suite 660-517
Dallas, Texas 75230
Phone: 214-883-2598
Fax: 972-386-7811
Email: colette.young@execumate.net
Healthy profits on the way, inshallah
The Government's new Finance Bill includes a provision to extend equal tax provisions to Shariah [Islamic law] compliant investment products. The idea, apparently, is to get a share of the growing Islamic finance industry. Jennifer Fox from Dillon Eustace drops in to explain the move to John.
Jennifer Fox, Partner
Dillon Eustace Solicitors
33 Sir john Rogerson's Quay
Dublin 2
01 667 0022
www.DillonEustace.ie
And in other religion-meets-business news.
Our RTE Radio colleague, Ronan Kelly, has come across a possible miracle solution to listeners' property-selling woes. Cathedral Books, just off Dublin's O'Connell Street, stocks statues of St. Joseph which, when buried on a property site, are said to aid the sale of property.
The statue of St Joseph
More of what's on offer at Cathedral books
www.rte.ie/radio1/thecuriousear
http://www.cathedralbooks.com/
Another taste of Killarney
Restaurant Advisor Blanaid Bergin pays another Visit to Chapter 40 in Killarney, this time to see if she can offer suggestions to increase turnover at the restaurant, which like many around the country has been feeling the squeeze during the recession. Proprietors Bridget Tagney and Mark Murphy are on hand as Blanaid reveals her plan.
Blanaid Bergin.
New Row
Abbeyleix
Co.Laois
Ireland
Tel: 087 679 0854
Email:info@therestaurantadvisor.ie
Web: www.therestaurantadvisor.ie
CHAPTER 40
New Street,
Killarney,
Co Kerry
Tel: 064 6671833
E-mail: info@chapter40.ie
Web: www.chapter40.ie
Right day, wrong stadium (for now at least).
On the opening day of Ireland's defence of the six nation's grand slam, we have exclusive access to the new home of Irish Rugby (and Soccer). John tours the new Aviva stadium in Lansdowne road, in the company of former Irish International Jim Glennon; stadium director, Martin Murphy; and director of sales and marketing, Cailin Keaney.
AVIVA STADIUM
LRSDC Site Offices
62 Lansdowne Road
Dublin 4
Tel 01 238 2300
Fax 01 238 2333
Programme 63: 30 January 2010
Waiting to see if winner all right - From left Neil Dawson, Brian Darcy, Anne Doyle, Shane Byrne and Chris Curran of Delta Index
I'M A CELEB, GET MY CASH OUT OF HERE!
Shane Byrne, Anne Doyle and Fr Brian D'Arcy werein studio for the finale of the 3 month long challenge. Shane Byrne makes € 73,000 to win with a staggering €73,777.50, yielding a return of 268% in his 3 month run. Larry Gogan announced the winner and neither Business presenter John Murray, nor the contestants had any idea in advance. Brian Darcy came second with a final balance of €72,059, a massive 260% return in 3 months. Anne Doyle turned €8,000 profit on her initial €20,000 investment- a 40% return in just 3 months. Leitrim resident and web designer, Neil Dawson, won the listeners competition turning his initial 2-20 grand into nearly ½ million , or €454,421 to be exact.
Click here for more on the Business Celebrity Investment Competition
Miriam McGrath of Wicklow Hospice taking the €5000 cheque from winner Shane Byrne and Chris Curran of Delta Index
Helena Christiansen,,.The Scandinavian model the employers and unions should be looking at?
WOULD YOU LIKE YOUR COLUMN SHAKEN OR STIRRED?
Mrs Moneypenny is a former investment banker and has an MBA from the London Business School and a PhD from the University of Hong Kong. But really, she writes a weekly column in the Financial Times Weekend Magazine. She is coming over to Dublin in February to talk to HR managers in Aviva, but John Murray reckoned as this is a private event, the public deserved to hear from her as well..
She is a visiting professor at Cass, City University Business School, and a trustee of a major educational charity. She is married to a wine merchant who plays a lot of golf, and has three children who she refers to as the Cost Centres. Mrs M began writing for the Financial Times in 1999 while still based in Tokyo. Subsequently, she returned to the UK and bought into a small but profitable business in the West End of London, where she was the youngest and worst-groomed of four owner-directors. She later led a management buyout and is now the majority owner. She is the author of Mrs Moneypenny: Survival in the City (2003), and Mrs Moneypenny: Email from Tokyo, (2006).
Websites: www.mrsmoneypenny.com or www.ft.com/arts/columnists/mrsmoneypenny
BEAN IN THE VAN
Clayre Roche drives a commercial jeep for Dublin firm Oakline, who design, make and install fitted furniture.. Clayre is the 4th generation of the Roche family in Oakline. Walk in wardrobes are the big thing at the moment, apparently inspired by Sex and the City, and they have provided fitted furnishings to the stars.. Bono's Clarence Hotel, Pat Kenny's Study and so on. John Murray caught up with her on some double yellow line near their showrooms in Dublin's Ranelagh.
OAKLINE FURNITURE
8, Ranelagh,
Dublin 6
Tel :085 8543578 01-
Email :info@oakline.ie
Website: www.oakline.ie
NINA DIVITO
MANOLO, YER WAN IS HOT ON YOUR HEELS!
Nina Divito is one of Ireland's top shoe designers, and you may have seen her shoes on the red carpet this week when Saiorse Ronan wore a pair of Nina's creations at the premiere of "The Lovely Bones" She started as an artist and her shoe paintings were a hit ,,,so why not make the move to making shoes.. and while they may not be cheap, they certainly are making waves.
Tel: 01 2024557
Email: info@ninadivito.com
Website : www. ninadivito.com 
Saiorse Ronan and her dad- she's the one wearing Nina's shoes!
TOP OF THE SHILLELAGH TO YOU
John was at the Enterprise Ireland Showcase event in the RDS where Irish craft producers and foreign buyers were haggling with each other for four days during the week. Mail order is still a multi-billion dollar industry in the United States, where the longest-established mail order company is Hammacher Schlemmer and their Director of Merchandising, Robert Bohlin, was at the RDS, where he met Sean Galvin of Lee Valley Ireland .. and what was in demand? Why, shillelaghs of course!
Lee Valley Ireland
Inchigeela,
Co Cork
Tel:026 49170
Email: sean@leevalley.ie
Web: www.leevalley.ie
Hammacher Schlemmer
Email: robertb@hammacher.com
Web: www.hammacher.com
Programme 62: 23 January 2010
From 'Up in the air' to letting me down easy.
'Up in the Air' sees George Clooney starring as Ryan Bingham whose job has him travelling around America firing people, But what's it really like to let people go these days and what's it like to be left go? Niall Saul Chairman of Symbio HR and Carol-Ann Casey from CA Consulting spoke to john about the business of letting go.
Symbio HR Solutions Ltd
Third Floor,
6 Exchange Place,
IFSC, Dublin 1.
Fax: 01 7917989
Email: info@symbiohr.ie
Web: www.symbiohr.ie
CA Consulting
17 Rathfarnham Road
Terenure
Dublin 6W
Ireland
Tel+353 1497 5588
Fax+353 1497 5578
Email info@caconsulting.ie
Web: http://www.caconsulting.ie/
Banker baker sandwich maker.
Almost a year ago to the day, the closure was announced of the former building society, First Active. By the end of 2009, hundreds of jobs had been lost, including that of Declan Horan - who used to be manager of First Active's Drumcondra branch in Dublin. Declan closed the doors for the last time in October, but recently re-opened it himself as a franchisee of the successful Munchie's chain.
Munchies Drumcondra
Telephone/Fax 01 837 3480
drumcondra@munchies.ie
Munchies Head office:
Munchies Dining Limited
Eastpoint Business Park
Alfie Byrne Road Dublin 3
Ireland Tel: +353 (0) 1 613 7707
Email: info@munchies.ie
Web: www.munchies.ie
The St James Under 8's in RTE celebrating after saving John Murray's penalty
The gaffer's gone online, lads.
Managing a sports team is hard enough when you're a full time professional but for the enthusiastic amateur, staying in touch and arranging training and fixtures is a very big job. or was, before teamer.net, a simple system that usea email and text to notify teams about games. We had 30 young footballers training on the grass outside the Radio Centre. Niall McEvoy of Teamer.net told us more.
The St James Under 8's after their away match in Carrigstown
The upside of the downturn.
Dr. Donald Sull is a Professor of Management Practice in Strategic and International Management, and the Faculty Director of Executive Education at the London Business School. His latest book is called 'The upside of Turbulence'
Don Sull's website: http://www.donsull.com/
McCrystal, he's a glass man (in a van).
John came man in the van Peter McCrystal on Lombard Street in Dublin,
but could he really be a glass man with a name like that?
McCrystal Glass & Glazing,
Rathcoffey,
Co. Kildare.
mccrystalglass@eircom.net
087 290 1214
THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE NO BUSINESS
What to do if you lose your Job is written by Ignatius Lynam and published by his company LMCS
LMCS
Te,l: 0906478474
E-mail: info@lmcs.ie
Programme 62: 16 January 2010
Hats hats hats. The Business Mad hatter Parade:
After all the cold weather brought out the best ( or maddest) hats in the country we met John Shevlin a master hat maker in Dublin. He spent the morning judging hats sent by listeners to The Business. The prize? Your very own hat, designed and made by John at his studio in Temple Bar in Dublin.
And the finalists are:
1.Sent in by David Cooke
2.Sent in by Emmet Fahy
3. Sent in by Oliver Power
4.Sent in by Niamh NI Cathain
5. Sent in by Mary Ryan
6.Sent in by Marjorie Mongan
7. Sent in by Maria O'Neill
8. Sent in by Robert Prole
9. Catriona Nolan
10. Sent in by Adrian Fogerty
Crumbs, it's Leo, and he's tyre-d.
Leo Kerley operates Ireland's only tyre recycling plant which reduces worn car and truck tyres to crumba and power , producing a wide reange of products from rubber much for gardens to Matting for the equestrian industry
Crumb Rubber Ireland Ltd .
Mooretown Dromiskin,
Dundalk, Co.Louth
1800 200 907
+353(0)42 938 2611
E Mail info@crumbrubber.ie
Jolly Green Giants (of business)
John met Conor McGovern organics manager RPS consultants to talk about a competition being run by rx3 for the the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. It's offering €15,000 in prizes to encourage business ideas that involve recycling.
Email: info@rx3.ie
Lo-call phone: 1890 732925
Website: www.rx3.ie
Is it Ronald, John? No it's John!
John Atherton is the Managing Director of McDonald's in Ireland and he joined john in studio to look back on his first year in the job, and forward to the future of the quarter pounder.
McDonald's Restaurants of Ireland Limited
7 Richview Office Park, Clonskeagh, Dublin 14.
tel: +353 1 2080020
fax: +353 1 2080021
Email: info@ie.mcd.com
Back in Motion
Back in July we teamed up the Blanchardstown based band Stone Motion with veteran performer Nick Kelly for some mentoring. They were back for a visit and to play for us live.
Stone motion are:
Jack Bale rhythm guitar and backing vocals.
Mark Ferguson bass and backing vocals.
Gerard Gallagher drums and backing vocals.
James Mc Cabe lead guitar and vocals.
http://www.stonemotion.ie/home.html
SEE STONE MOTION ON BALCONY TV
Programme 61: 09 January 2010
THE NOT SO MAD HATTER
Hatmaker John Shevlin has more than his rear end well covered as his hats are doing well in the icy spell. Now, you won't get these for 3 Euro in Dunne's or Penny's, but a good hat is probably worth the investment.
Shevlin Millinery
15 Kenmare House
22 North Great George's Street
Dublin 1
Tel : 01 8740447
Mobile : 087 2455565
E-Mail: info@shevlin.ie
Web: www.shevlin.ie
A real mad hatter! Paul Cunningham's headgear as featured on the tv news has spawned its own Facebook page! See Paul's Hat Facebook here
WIN ONE OF JOHN'S HATS BY SENDING US YOUR BEST WINTER HAT PICTURE TO thebusiness@rte.ie - - Get it to us by Friday next 10am and we will announce the winner on Sunday.
John The Hat Shevlin
Another Mad Hatter
SHARP OPERATORS
Helen Ryan is CEO of Creganna Medical Devices, based in Galway. Creganna has just taken over Tactix Medical, another medical device manufacturer. This adds bases California , Minnesota and Singapore as well as their existing facilities in Galway, Massachusetts, and Finland. Creganna's expertise is in catheter and catheter and specialty needle applications.
Creganna,
Parkmore West,
Galway, Ireland
Tel: 091 757801
Web: www.creganna.com
GLASS CEILING ABOUT TO FALL IN?
Jeremy Baker is affiliate professor at ESCP Europe Business School ( London Campus) and he is a bit of a trendspotter - "A tenfold increase in the number of female CEOs in FTSE 100 companies!", "Double the number of female MPs!", "100% growth in women-owned start-ups" are among his latest batch of prediction. Jeremy is in London and he is joined in Dublin by Shenda Loughnane of ICAN.ie, the digital advertising agency. Shenda is Managing Director of Ireland's biggest specialist online agency
ESCP Europe Business School
527 Finchley Road
London NW3 7BG
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 207 443 8800
E-mail : info.uk@escpeurope.eu
Web: www.escpeurope.eu/
iCAN
Warrington House,
Mount Street Crescent,
Dublin 2,
Ireland
Tel: 01 6461018
Web: www.ican.ie
ARTICULATE LORRY DRIVER
Pat O'Donovan runs his own transport company and he called in from Cork to tell John about the big freeze in Ireland and on "De Kontinent" and how they handle metres of snow.. Compare and Contrast!
O'Donovan Transport (Cork) Ltd,
Main Strett,
Carrigtwohill,
Co Cork
Tel: (021)4883399
E-mail: odt@odt.ie
THE TOAST IS BURNT
In 2005 John spoke to Joe and Pamela Fitzmaurice of Blazing Salads - a family run deli who had just expanded into the wholesale organic bread market. These days specialist food companies are having a bad time.. but seemingly not the Blazing Salads gang.
Address: 42 Drury Street, Dublin 2
Website: www.blazingsalads.com/
Email: blazingsalads@eircom.net
Phone: 01 6719552
WHERE'S THE REMOTE? IN LAS VEGAS OF COURSE
Garry McMullan is CEO of Amulet Devices and he talked to John live from the Annual Consumer Electronics show held in Las Vegas.. This is where Google are showing their new smart phone and where all the new toys go on parade.
Amulet are an Irish company who have developed the Amulet Remote. This uses simple voice commands to provide instant access to any media item in your digital library - music, television programs, movies, home videos and photos. And it works, you may have heard them demonstrating the prototypes on the show in October 2008. The remote goes on sale in the US in a few weeks time.
Suite 11, El-Greco Building
St James Court
Serpentine Avenue
Dublin 4, Ireland
Tel: +353 1 67 22 400
Web: www.amuletdevices.com
Amulet remote - soon to be lost in every couch in the world.,
WE ARE NOT A MUZU
While we are in Vegas, MUZU.TV have just announced that MUZU is to be incorporated into the next generation of Samsung Internet enabled Televisions...
The music video website has created a special TV application of MUZU.TV in conjunction with Samsung. It will be pre installed on 1.5 million televisions in the UK to provide free access to thousands of hours of high quality music related videos including official music videos, interviews, live concert footage, etc.
Ciaran Bollard is Co-founder of MUZU.TV
MUZU TV
Head Office
19 South William Street
Dublin 2
Email: info@muzu.tv
Web: http://www.muzu.tv/
Programme 61: 02 January 2010
The Business indulged in a best bits of the year orgy. Good fun!
Programme 60: 19 December 2009
ON YOUR MARKS, GET SET, SHOP!
To put Ireland's state of the art transport network to the test, we're asking three prominent business people to make their way by taxi, LUAS, and bicycle from St. Stephen's Green to our live studio in Dundrum Town Centre. The participants are:
Sean Gallagher, Smart Homes
www.SmartHomes.ie
Jim Power, Friends First
www.FriendsFirst.ie
Deborah Lee Marlow, serial entrepreneur
www.TheBusinessWhisperer.ie
THE TWELVE BUZZ-WORDS OF CHRISTMAS
Singing for their breakfast this morning are the members of the Diva Voces choir - a Dublin-based female choir.
www.DivaVoces.ie
HAVE A NICE DAY, SIR?
Eddie Shanahan takes a look around Dundrum Town Centre with John and assesses the prospects for survival of various retailers.
Eddie Shanahan
Branding, Retail & Fashion Consultant
edmundshanahan@eircom.net
087 237 3225
LIVING LA VIDA LOCA IN BUENOS AIRES
Earlier in the year, we met an advertising creative, Priscilla Groves, who had just lost her job in Dublin. To make ends meet, she was producing radio ad's for clients on a freelance basis. When we called her recently to see how she was getting on, we were surprised to hear that although she, and her partner, James Kennedy, were still running businesses targeting Irish consumers, they are doing it from Buenos Aires, Argentina. They'll be telling John why it makes sense to live abroad and work in Ireland.
www.priscillagroves.com - Priscilla's radio ad factory
www.PieHole.ie - James' website for voiceovers
THE BUSINESS BOOK CORNER
We talk to Rebecca Kerr and Emily Stephenson about their new Recession-Buster Cookbook, in aid of the St. Vincent de Paul.
Recession Busters Cookbook by Rebecca and Emily €4.99
Available in Cavistons, Glasthule or email: rebeccakerr57@yahoo.co.uk
John Gallagher of ChildNames.net picks out his business book recommendations for Christmas, and tells us about his new book, Santa and the Recessiono.
http://childnames.net
Other books recommended on the programme:
'Nudge, improving decisions about health, wealth and happiness'
by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein.
'Are You a Badger or a Doormat? How to be a leader who gets results'
by Rosie Miller.
'Michael O'Leary, a Life in full flight'
by Alan Ruddock of the Sunday Independent.
My Dear Mr McCourt, biography of Kevin McCourt
by Eugene McCague, Gill & Macmillan
www.GillMacmillan.ie
Programme 59: 12 December 2009
HAS IRELAND TURNED A CORNER?
The glass is half-full: Dr. Sean Barrett, Senior Lecturer, Economics, Trinity College Dublin
www.TCD.ie
The glass is half-empty: Pearce Flannery, Pragmatica
www.Pragmatica.ie
MAN IN THE VAN
This week's random, roadside encounter was with Liam Lawlor.
W&L Lawlor Construction
4 Griffith Ave
Sandymount
Dublin 4
087 233 7226
MAN IN THE VAN WITH CASH IN THE CAN
We caught up with a previous Man in the Van subject, Clive Marks, of Envirocleen, who has secured investment with the help of James Carroll from Investor First.
Envirocleen
Commercial & Domestic Wheeled Bin Washers
PO Box 10940
Baldoyle
Dublin 13
087 687 2228
envirocleen@eircom.net
Investor First
Homestead
Sandyford Road
Dublin 16
01 207 6200
ireland@investorfirst.ie
www.investorfirst.ie
I'M A CELEBRITY, GET MY MONEY OUT OF HERE!
Three Irish stars have joined the Business Celebrity Investment Contest to raise a guaranteed €5,000 for charity. Click here to get the full story and how you can join in.
HAVE A CHEEKY CHRISTMAS
The Cheeky Girls dropped in to tell John about their near bankruptcy and their new range of costmetics.
www.CheekyGirlsBeauty.com
info@ftiuk.com
0044 1923 858262
Programme 58: 5 December 2009
THE INCREDIBLE THING BAND
Irishman, Matthew Ling and German, Andreas Follmann, set up The Incredible Things Department based in Berlin, the "real capital" of Europe (to coin a phrase). I(ncredible) T(hings)deal in software and the web, as the IT bit might suggest. Ronan Kelly met Matthew and Andreas in Berlin last month around the 20th Anniversary of the wall coming down. And Matthew still has his own band - check them out here
www.the123gos.com
The Incredible Things Department
Web: www.incrediblethingsdepartment.com
Follow them on Twitter @itdpt
Matthew Ling and Andreas Follmann of The Incredible Things Department
IRELAND WORLDBEATER ACCORDING TO LEADBEATER
FIT (Fastforward to Information Technology) brought innovation guru, Charles Leadbeater, to Ireland for their 10th anniversary conference held this week. FIT agree that 80,000 jobs could be created through the emerging Green Economy sector but these jobs are of no use unless Irish people have the skills to work in them, which is where FIT come in.Charles Leadbeater is a former advisor to Tony Blair. He also devised Bridget Jones's Diary (originally a column) with Helen Fielding. His most recent book, We-think, explores the new phenomenon of mass creativity exemplified by web sites such as YouTube, Wikipedia and MySpace.
FIT Ltd,
22 Tolka Valley Business Park,
Ballyboggan Road,
Glasnevin, Dublin 11
Tel: 01 8825570
Email: info@fit.ie
Web: www.fit.ie
Charles Leadbeater
Web: www.charlesleadbeater.net
O'DEA REST? THE MAN NEVER SLEEPS!
Minister Willie O'Dea sports the most famous moustache in politics in Ireland and what better man to judge the best mo's in the Business Mo-Vember photo Gallery? And he graciously agreed to do it live on the show on a Saturday morning.
We can exclusively reveal what Willie O'Dea looks as Free Moustache Willie in this artist's impression.
Web: www.willieodea.ie
I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE -A RESTAURANT ADVISER!
A few week's back we invited restaurants who thought they needed help to contact us, and theyd did. So we sent Blathnaid Bergin -Restaurant Advisor- sort of what not to Eat expert- to Killarney to check out a willing victim, Chapter 40- but on the sly. Tim Desmond was forced to eat a very good meal while accompanying Blathnaid and carrying out the high tech bit of this undercover operation. See what Blathnaid found and how the restaurant reacted!
CHAPTER 40
New Street,
Killarney,
Co Kerry
Tel: 064 6671833
E-mail: info@chapter40.ie
Web: www.chapter40.ie
To see Blathnaid's do's and don't for restaurants click here
New Row
Abbeyleix
Co.Laois
Ireland
Tel: 087 679 0854
Email: info@therestaurantadvisor.ie
Web: www.therestaurantadvisor.ie
SIGN HERE FOR SAFETY
John Murray went on the hunt for more white vans this week and he caught up with Brent Carswell of the Safety Sign Centre in Meath. Brent's company is closely tied to the construction sector and while it's not a total tale of woe, it's still not good out there.
Safety Sign Centre,
Unit 7, The Dale
Laytown, Co Meath
Tel: 0419828991
Email: info@safetysigncentre.com
Web: http://safetysigncentre.com
Programme 57: 28th November 2009
ANALYSE THIS, MR. COWEN!
With the Taoiseach, this week, accusing us all of being "overwhelmingly negative", we decided to put the nation on the economic equivalent of the psychoanalyst's couch. Pete Lunn is based at the ESRI and his expertise is 'Behavioural Economics' - a sort of cross between psychology and economics.
Pete Lunn,
Research Officer, ESRI
pete.lunn@esri.ie
www.esri.ie
FINAL DESTINATION FOR BUDGET TRAVEL
This week saw the liquidation of iconic Irish travel agent, Budget Travel. John speaks to, Simon Coyle, the liquidator appointed to wind up the company. If you are a Budget customer looking for a refund go to
www.aviationreg.ie or Tel: 1-6613122.
Simon Coyle
Enterprise Services
Mazars
(0)1 4496431
www.Mazars.ie
VENTURE ME THIS, TIM.
Venture capitalists are the people who invest their money in high-risk new companies, hoping to get a big return if those companies succeed. The man who's been called the world's most successful venture capitalist was in Dublin during the week speaking to entrepreneurs, and John caught up with him.
Tim Draper
Managing Director
Draper Fisher Jurvetson
www.DFJ.com
I'VE GOT A BRAND NEW MULTIHOG
Father and daughter team, Jim and Ruth McAdam, drop by to show John their new multi-purpose utility vehicle, the MultiHog. Watch videos of the vehicle in action on the website below. Watch the MultiHog in action on video.
Multihog
FoyeTech Ltd.
Brewery Business Park
Ardee Rd.
Dundalk
Co. Louth
042 9386738
info@multihog.com
www.MultiHog.com
EAMONN'S BINTRASHER BEATS THEM ALL, EVERY DAY
Earlier in the year, we teamed up Wexford man, Eamonn Treacy, with Ben Dunne for what turned out to be one of our least successful mentoring partnerships. After pitching his bin-compressing invention to the Irish Dragons' Den, Eamonn joins John in studio. Without Ben.
Eamonn Treacy
Treacy Engineering
Ballinvalley
Kildavin
Enniscorthy
Co. Wexford
bintrasher@yahoo.ie
059 915 7629
087 206 9546
www.bintrasher.com
A NICE IDEA, BUT WILL IT PAY THE BILLS?
Former Quantity Surveyor, Rory McGuigan, from Cavan, had a brainwave last year that comes to fruition on The Business this Saturday morning. It's a gift card, produced in association with MasterCard, that can be used for paying bills.
Rory McGuigan
KineticCard Ltd.
16 Clare Street
Dublin 2
www.Utilize.ie
info@utilize.ie
Programme 56: 21th November 2009
WAITER, THERE'S A FLY IN MY SOUP
Blathnaid Bergin is a Restaurant Advisor- a what? If your restaurant is not performing she will come in and tell you what is what- a sort of foodie troubleshooter. Irish restaurants are in trouble and they are blaming high wages and overheads, but could bad value and poor management have something to do with it?
To see Blathnad's do's and don't for restaurants click here
New Row
Abbeyleix
Co.Laois
Ireland
Tel: 087 679 0854
Email:info@therestaurantadvisor.ie
Web: www.therestaurantadvisor.ie
CLON-DYKE - DON'T TAKE THE FINGER OUT
It's was a bad week for businesses prone to flooding across the country, particularly in the west and the South West. Tim Desmond braved the West Cork rapids and is live at Walsh Printers in Clonakilty town centre with Robert Walsh.
Walsh Printers & West Cork Labels
Bridge House
Rossa Street
Clonakilty
Co. Cork
Tel: 023-8833425
Email: walshprint@eircom.net
Web: http://wprintl.com
I'M A CELEBRITY- GET MY CASH OUT OF HERE ! WEEK 4
See how our 3 stars are getting on with their 20 grand .. Who is top of the investment charts this week and who is on target to earn €5,000 for a charity of their choice...And check out how our.listeners can take part as well and win a €1,000 euro investment account at trading website Delta Index. There are over 400 so far taking part and it runs until the end of January 2010.
Former Rugby international Shane Byrne took the lead this week he was up over €2,000 on the week, and increased his stake to €24,100...Last week's leader of the pack Anne Doyle slipped back a little down to €22,400, into second place and Brian D'Arcy was down on his original €20,000 to about €17,000 and remained in third place.
Join in the fun and check the leaderboards at:
http://www.deltaindex.com/
PAY LOTS OF MONEY AND YOU GET HIGHLY PAID MONKEYS
John Purcell is brave man - he reckons bankers need to be paid lots of money- the only thing that could make him more of a public hate figure here would be to suggest that that French goal was honest. John Purcell is an ex-Pat who runs Purcell & Co. in London, a firm of corporate headhunters, and is a regular on the show.
Purcell and Co.,
Berkeley Square House,
Berkeley Square,
London W1J 6BD
Tel: +44 207849 6130
Email: enquiries@purcellandco.com
Web: www.purcellandco.com
DEEP HEAT
GT Energy was established in 2006 and specialises in geothermal energy for district heating networks in Ireland and the UK. Based in Co Dublin GT is the leading private geothermal resource company. The use of heat from deep in the ground is a rapidly growing technology.and John went out to Rathcoole to meet Con McCarthy and get a bit of deep heat treatment.
GT Energy
Unit H, Grants Road
Greenogue Business Park
Rathcoole, Co. Dublin
Tel: 01 401 1020
Email: info@gtenergy.net
Web: http://gtenergy.net
Programme 56: 14th November 2009
Live from Cork, the southern capital, the city voted the fourth best place to visit by the Lonely Planet travel guides our Business breakfast took place at the Farmgate Cafe, in the wonderful English Market.
John spoke to Pat O'Connell, a third generation fish merchant at the market.
K O'Connell Fish Merchants
The English Market,
Cork,
Co. Cork
Tel: (021) 427 6380
Email: freshfish@koconnellsfish.com
John took a tour of the new Cork Swansea Ferry services which is due to get underway next march. His guide for the tour was Tom Barrett CEO of Fastnet Lines.
Fastnet Line,
14 Penrose Wharf,
Cork, Ireland.
021 4555 666
info@fastnetline.com
http://www.fastnetline.com/
John got down to the details of a couple of baby related businesses over Coffee at the Farmgate restaurant in the English Market . He spoke to Suzanne Kingston Of puddleducks.ie and to David Caren of dad.ie, two web base entrepreneurs from the Cork area.
PuddleDucks
Beechwood
Ferney Road
Carrigaline
County Cork
Ireland.
Tel 021 437 2917
Email: info@puddleducks.ie
Musical accompaniment at The English Market came from Pat Horgan and John Cullinane of the Dizzy Blues Band.
Programme 55: 7th November 2009
THE ONLY THING MISSING IS THE BANANAS
Anthony Sweeney is an Irish economist living in Bavaria, Germany, and advises investment funds in Europe. His views of the Irish economy are summed up in his latest book "Banana Republic", along the lines of;
"People think this is the crisis. This is not the crisis - the crisis is yet to come. We're in a worse state than Iceland. We're going to run out of money, because the government won't make the sorts of cuts needed. So the sooner the ECB or the IMF come in and take over the better" Anthony has a Masters Degree in Business Administration with a specialisation in International Trade and Finance from Edinburgh Business School. His previous books include Strategic Implications of Monetary Union and Irrational Exuberance: The Myth of the Celtic Tiger. On foot of this we asked would it be good or bad if the IMF intervened in the Irish economy - just under 88% said good. The results are
1143 - GOOD
162 - BAD
1305 official entries
Click here to find out more on "Banana Republic -The Failure of the Irish State and How to Fix It"
UGLY DUCKLING BECOMES SWAN CINEMA
The Swan Centre in Rathmines, Dublin, is due to have a new cinema at the end of November, being built of prefabricated parts. The centre is owned by Ward Anderson, the family company, who run Iteland's largest independent cinema chain. And Kevin Anderson took John Murray around the building site and explained how you build a 3 screen cinema in 5 weeks and why digital is the future
Swan Cinema
Rathmines
Dublin 6
Web: www.swancinemas.ie
Or for a digital cinema demo: www.digitalcinema.ie.
HORIZONTAL MANAGEMENT.
Conor Ridge runs what is one of Ireland's top sports management agency. On his books at the moment are some serious golfers - World Match Play, Ross Fisher and 2 top Irishmen, Graeme McDowell and Shane Lowry. Conor also negotiated the Puma kit and sponsorship deal for the Irish rugby team.
Conor Ridge, Horizon Sports Management
Horizon Sports Management Ltd
44 Lower Leeson Street,
Dublin 2,
Ireland.
Tel: 01 662 1722
Email: info@horizonsports.ie
Web: www. horizonsports.ie
I'M A CELEBRITY, GET MY MONEY OUT OF HERE!
Anne Doyle is beating the 2 lads easily. Delta index sent us the following summary after week 1. We take no responsibility for use of financial "jargon" in this
Shane Bynre:
Initially achieving fantastic profits from shorting US Light Crude from 79.46 to 77.00 however the US Dollar correlation with Gold seems to have broken down with the Dollar strengthening massively and Gold continuing to rise. Gold hitting its all time high this week. The International Monetary Fund sold 200 tons of Gold to the Reserve Bank of India for $6.7 billion, and there were rumors China also wanted to buy large quantities of Gold mixed with the uncertainty of global banking stocks. To conclude very volatile week and Shane is sittingjust below his initial 20k thanks to well placed stop losses. Value €19973
Fr Brian Darcy:
This was a certainly an choppy week for the sterling. On Monday morning, Sterling had been hammered from Friday evening so Brian got a great price at about 16380. Due to the heavier than expected selling over the weekend we set stops at quite tightly below this level. The trade looked promising for a while but came down and hit the stop loss. Looking at the news and fears of an increase in quantitive easing which would weaken sterling we decided we would buy dollars instead. This again started well but quickly turned sour, the market rallied and Brian stood aside to reassess. Finally re-entering buying sterling again as it had broken and held above 16500, we went long at 16530 and took a quicker profit this time at 16573. This left Brian slightly down for the week at €19221.
Anne Doyle:
Anne had a very good week, having bought equities on dips she experienced significant profits from CRH, the ISEQ and NASDAQ which had positive weeks, however the short position on McDonalds was stopped out surrendering some profit, however she has grown her initial 20k to €22080
Topping the Listener Leaderboard after week one is Jason Delaney whose 20,000 Euro has already blossomed into an extraordinary 31,600 Euro! So far, we've only one woman in the Top Ten: Fanny Pichon-Varin, a Francophone based in Cork, in third place.
Click here to check ouit the rankings anytime -
To get more on this or join in the Listener's Investment Challenge - click here
From the left - Fr Brian D'Arcy, Shane Byrne, Anne Doyle, Chris Curran of Delta Index and another celebrity
WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?
Diversity Challenge is run by Open Minds Consultants, and tbey want companies to recognise all the different people who make up businesses these days - and they say if you take care of these different people, then you have more efficient and productive staff. Katriona McFadden accompanied David Walsh on a visit to Novartis in Ringaskiddy, Cork, to see how it works in practice
Open Minds Consultants
22 South Frederick Street,
Dublin 2
Tel: 01 6740000
Email: info@diversity.ie
Web: www.diversity.ie
Programme 55: 31st October 2009
XANADU IN TWO MILE BORRIS
€460 Million investment in small townland in North Tipperary. Sounds too good to be true? April Fool's joke too early? Story from Celtic Tiger Era that came 5 years too late? Well according to Michael Lowry, TD for North Tipp, this is for real. The Tipperary Venue will be located on an 800 acre site close to Two-Mile-Borris. Dublin-based businessman Richard Quirke (best known for Dr. Quirkey's Good Time Emporium Richard in Dublin's O'Connell Street but who also has a wide variety of successful business ventures) is the man behind it.. It will include a Casino, 15,000 seater underground entertainment venue, 2 full horse race tracks ( one all weather), an 18-hole signature golf course, Driving range, Equestrian centre and a full scale replica of the White House.
The Bould Michael Lowry took John Murray for a look at the site near the shores of Lough Derg on the Tipperary, Kilkenny border to tell him how it's all going to work.
I'M A CELEBRITY, GET MY MONEY OUT OF HERE!
3 real Irish stars ( as opposed to pretty boy twins who can't sing a note type celebrities) have joined the Business Celebrity Investment Challenge to raise a guaranteed €5,000 for charity.Click here to get the full story and how you can join in.
O'DRYER ON THE RACK?
Jeanette & Martin O'Dwyer, the Tipperary couple behind O'Dryer, invited Katriona McFadden to see their first commercial run of their all weather "clothes line" coming off the production line. Back in June they unveiled it on the Business, just in time for our usual wet summer- timing is everything!
Marlhill
New Inn
Cashel
Co. Tipperary
Tel: 051 347 030 /086 344 1039
Email: sales@odryer.ie
Web: www.odryer.ie
ODRYER IN ACTION IN THE FROST
FRENCH FRANK - OUI! IRISH FRANK- NON!
Frank Jackson runs the Connemara Irish Bar in Bordeaux and as someone living in France he went to buy some tickets for the Ireland France world cup qualifiers. But he was refused! Frank tells us more.
The Connemara Irish Pub and Restaurant,
14-18 Cours d'Albret
33000 Bordeaux,
France
Tel: + 33 556 528257
Web: www.connemara-pub.com
CUT RYANAIR CHARGES, WELL NO THANKS TO THEM!
There's only one way to buy a ticket from Ryanair, and that is online. And then they charge you for doing it online.. Catch 22! The ever glib Michael O'Leary replies that you don't have to pay any charge if you use a 'Visa Electron card'. Can you get one in Ireland? Well, of course not! None of the banks here issue them. Well, we sent our undercover financial agent, Tim Desmond on the Mission Impossible, to avoid paying Ryanair rip off charges by getting a Visa Electron Card.. Find out how he did it and took €5 out of Michael O'Leary's pocket..
To get started , follow this link to apply for a Visa Electron card with Entropay.com ( you must apply for a GBP sterling card for Ryanair to accept it)
www.Entropay.com
NATIONAL ALCOHOL MANAGEMENT AGENCY
During the NAMA bill debate, Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan said "an exemplary standard must be set from the start" in case of any allegations of corruption. The provisions will apply to an official of Nama, or an individual "who performs functions connected with the valuation of eligible bank assets". The provisions come into play where it is shown that the "gift or consideration or advantage shall be taken, unless the contrary is proved, to have been given and received corruptly as an inducement to or reward for the person performing or omitting to perform any of those functions".
During the ongoing committee stage debate on the Bill, Fine Gael finance spokesman Richard Bruton asked the Minister: "Does this mean if someone accepts a bottle of wine from a person in any way connected with any piece of land of any Nama loan that it could be seen as potentially corrupt?" Mr Lenihan replied that "it does, actually".
So we asked Paddy Keogh of Wines Direct to send a nice bottle of Chateau 'Le Bay Gorse' [from the Marguax region] to the MD of NAMA. And they accepted it on Friday. We expect the Office of Corporate Enforcement and the Garda Fraud Squad will follow along shortly
Web: www.WinesDirect.ie
POST SCRIPT - NAMA RETURN WINE- accompanied by the followng froM THE MANAGING DIRECTOR
Dear John,
Thank you for thinking of me and arranging the delivery of the lovely bottle of wine yesterday evening. As you are aware, from the NAMA Committee stage debate this past week, no person working on or providing a service to NAMA can avail or accept such gifts.
You may not have known during your radio show this morning that I arranged to have it returned to RTE yesterday evening at 6pm. I attach the courier delivery docket so you can trace its safe return.
I do hope that you and\or your team will be able to avail of it or perhaps find another suitable home for it. Maybe you may consider using it as a NAMA competition prize for one of your many listeners. Wherever its ends up I wish the ultimate recipient the pleasure of its enjoyment.
With best wishes and continued success with the show.
Regards
Brendan McDonagh
Interim Managing Director National Asset Managment Agency National Treasury Management Agency, Treasury Building,Grand Canal Street,Dublin 2, Ireland
Programme 54: 24th October 2009
A NIGHT AT THE OPERA or NO SLEEP TIL WEXFORD
DUBLIN- During the summer, Pat McArdle stepped down as Ulster Bank Group Chief Economist, after 13 or so years in the job. He might have reached normal retirement age but Pat is not hanging up the supply-demand curves just yet and is now an independent economist. Pat joined John Murray in the Business Bus from the start of the adventure to offer his thoughts on the midden heap known as the Irish economy. And to get the show on the road, John played Pat the views of CIT Economist, Tom O'Connor. No marks for guessing that he and Pat do not see eye to eye
Pat McArdle, Independent Economist
Email: ardle.mcArdle@gmail.com
Tom O'Connor, Lecturer in Economics and Social Policy,
Cork Institute of Technology.
Tel: 021 4326547
Email: tom.oconnor@cit.ie
KILCOOLE (aka Glenroe)- Janet Drew runs Janet's Country Fayre who make a range of chutneys The Irish Chutney market is not as developed as in the UK and the corporate hamper business ( which was bread and butter business for them) has imploded, so she's diversified into pasta sauces. Janet has one full time staff member and is adding more coming up to Christmas as seasonal packs are still popular.
Janet's Country Fayre
Unit 13B,
Bullford Business Campus,
Kilcoole, Co. Wicklow,
Ireland.
Tel : 01-201-8008
Mobile : 087-620-5712
Email: janet@janetscountryfayre.com
Web: www.janetscountryfayre.com
Plastics in action at Holfelds Arklow plant
ARKLOW- Just outside Arklow is the super modern plant of Holfeld Plastics, whose main stock in trade is moulded food grade plastic containers. John Cullen is Managing Director and he took John on a tour of the premises, for which protecitive clothing was required. Not so much to protect us as much as stop us polluting the production process. John outlined Holfeld Plastics launch of one of the first on-site, closed-loop recycling plants in Europe with a capacity for producing 20,000 tonnes of rPET and HDPE (2 types of plastic) per annum, to ESFA Food Contact Standards. Business seems to be good at the moment.
Holfeld Plastics,
Avoca River Park,
Arklow, Co. Wicklow
Tel: 0402 41234
Web: www.holfeldplastics.ie
MD of Holfeld, John Cullen talks to John about his new headgear
ENNISCORTHY- Liam Griffin, victorious Wexford Hurling Manager (96), hotelier and plain speaking business man, runs the Griffin Group Hotels. John met him at Monart Destination Spa, a €35 million project when it launched c.2006. Forbes Mag rate is as one of the world's top 10. Sure the recession is biting, but he is surviving where many of the more recent tax driven hotel and holiday home developments have collapsed. Liam tells us that Monart was 100% Irish owned and built - as opposed to other developments that flooded the market. And Liam (or a Monart staff member) is going to grow a moustache as part of the Business Movember campaign - see main page for more details.
Monart Spa Hotel
The Still
Enniscorthy
Co. Wexford
Tel: 053 92 38999
Email: info@monart.ie or reservations@monart.ie
Web: www.monart.ie
Liam Griffin explains about free lunches to John Murray, Mary Regan and Pat McArdle
ENNISCORTHY- Mary Regan is also based just outside Enniscorthy but her's is a different kettle of fish from Liam's. Regan's Organic Chicken in fact. Mary has a one-old baby boy - and also 300 chickens and turkeys. Turkeys for the Christmas market is the big thing at the moment but she's recently expanded into organic pork sausages and was prominent at the recent Superquinn Artisan Food Festival.
Regan's Organic Chicken
Dunanore
Bree
Enniscorthy
Co.Wexford
Tel: 087 6682461
Email: reganmaryj@eircom.net
Web: www.organic-trust.org/members/detail/regan_organic_chicken_mary_regan/
The gang waiting for the LUAS at Kent's - John is talking to Pat Kent (2nd from right)
ARDCAVAN: Kent Stainless supply the LUAS in Dublin with all their advertising boards, ticket dispensers, signs, and shelters, and as the name suggests stainless steel is their speciality. Pat Kent is Managing Director and beats the drum for Irish manufacturing, neglected during the Tiger Era in favour of multinationals and throwing tax money into holes in the ground (Construction). Wisely, they never got too deep into construction, but developed export markets such as waste treatment equipment to the UK, Holland, Wales, and South Africa. They employ 100 making them by far the biggest employer in the area and Pat is going make sure Kent Steel join the Movember movement.
Kent Stainless (Wexford) Ltd,
Ardcavan,
Wexford,
Tel: 053 9143 216
Email: info@kentstainless.com
Web: www.kentstainless.com/
Adriano Graziani sings for the Business
WEXFORD - Eamonn Carroll is Business Development Manager of the Wexford Opera Festival and Opera House. So how does a small niche opera festival in a small ( by international standards) town survive, given the enormous cost of opera.. And there is the problem of making money from the venue outside the opera festival. Wexford has managed to maintain its rather unique position as an important date on the world Opera Circuit. 58 years on the go and in the second year in the custom built Wexford Opera House.
Adriano Graziani is a Welsh tenor with an Italian connection who was a banker until he took part in an artist development programme at the Wexford Festival 4 years ago. He'll be performing in Maria Padilla - Monday, Thursday and Sunday week - and Adriano has enjoyed a string of successful appearances, with 2009 debuts including Rodolfo La bohème (Welsh National Opera); Cavaradossi Tosca (Holland Park Opera); Alfredo La traviata (Opéra de Baugé). And he sung for us - A Vucchella by 19 Century Italian composer, Tosti which is a touching love song....and we were touched!
Wexford Opera House
High Street
Wexford, Ireland
Tel: 053 91 22 400
Callsave: 1850 4 OPERA
Email: boxoffice@wexfordopera.com
Web: www.wexfordopera.com
Adriano Graziani
Web: www.adrianograziani.com
The full crew at the end of the Opera(tion)
THE PEOPLE WHO PUT THE BUS IN BUS-INESS
JJ Kavanagh and Sons provided the bus for the trip, and are based in the bus capital of Ireland, from Urlingford, Co Kilkenny. 90 years in the bus business this year must mean that they are doing so mething very well. Our grateful thanks to JJ Kavanagh and bus driver, Prosper Nayngor, for their courteous, efficient and friendly way of dealing with all on the road trip.
JJ Kavanagh and Sons
Tel: 0818 333 222
Email: info@jjkavanagh.ie
Web: www.jjkavanagh.ie
Programme 53: 17th October 2009
RYANAIR- LOVE OR HATE-EM - YOU LOVED EM- 60% VOTED LOVE AND 40% HATE in a poll of over 2000 listeners
OLE, OLE, O'LEARY
It's the airline we love to hate - but keep flying with anyway. After the BBC's much-hyped Panorama investigation into Ryanair, we ask two commentators to argue either side of our love/hate relationship with the airline and its, eh, flamboyant chief executive.
Loving it: Jennifer O'Connell
Sunday Business Post
www.sbpost.ie
Hating it: Paul Kilduff
Author, Ruinair
http://www.paulkilduff.com/ruinair.htm
HOW DO YOU FIT A HUNDRED ECONOMISTS IN A HOTEL?
In the week that Denis O'Brien unleashed contempt on Ireland's academic economists, we'll be going live to the Park Hotel in Kenmare, where the Dublin Economic Workshop is taking place. Its organiser is Sean Barrett.
Sean Barrett
Senior Lecturer
Economics Department
Trinity College Dublin
Sean.Barrett@tcd.ie
01 896 1523
www.TCD.ie
BUSINESS MATCHMAKING AT CROKE PARK
John took a trip earlier this week to Croke Park for the Enterprise Ireland Big Ideas Showcase. It's an event that encourages academic researchers to promote their discoveries to investors. John first spoke to Kevin Kavanagh from NUI Maynooth about his bee-protecting invention, Beemune; and then to UCD's Barry Smyth about HeyStaks, which he's hoping will revolutionise the way we search for things online.
About the event:
http://www.enterprise-ireland.com/BIGIDEAS
Kevin Kavanagh
Department of Biology
NUI Maynooth
01 708 3859
kevin.kavanagh@nuim.ie
http://biology.nuim.ie/staff/kkmed.shtml
Barry Smyth
HeyStaks Technologies
Belfield Innovation Park
University College Dublin
Belfield
Dublin 4
01-7162645
www.HeyStaks.com
CARRY ON, KARAOKE
Dan Barry pops into The Business to tell John about the audio technology break-through that he licensed to Sony for use on their popular Playstation game, SingStar. Demonstrating how exactly karaoke works is the pride of Mayfield, Co. Cork: former IT consultant turned World Karaoke Champion, Adrian Kenny.
Dan Barry
Senior Researcher
DIT Audio Research Group
dan.barry@dit.ie
01 402 2862
http://www.audioresearchgroup.com/
Adrian Kenny
adrianken97@hotmail.com
021 450 1912
BACKING A WINNER IN SPONSORSHIP
Advertising revenues are down generally, but the sports sponsorship business is holding up well and is expected to be worth about €130 million in 2009. John speaks to James Hogan CEO of Ethiad Airways, sponsors of the GAA Hurling Championships. A more recent entrant to intercounty GAA sponsorship, Matty Walsh of MW Hire in Urlingford, speaks to John about his deal to sponsor Laois GAA for the coming years.
James Hogan
CEO, Etihad Airways
http://www.etihadairways.com
MW Hire
Unit 14
Urlingford Business Park
Co. Kilkenny
056 8831418
056 8831493
Eamil :info@mwhire.com
Web: www.mwhire.com
GROW A MO' FOR THE BUSINESS!
The Business is delighted to being working in conjunction with the Irish Cancer Society to raise funds for Action Prostate Cancer. For the month of Mo-vember* we're asking the businesses of Ireland to sponsor an employee to grow a moustache. For more information about taking part, click here.
Left: The Murray Mo
Programme 52: 10th October 2009
HAPPY BIRTHDAY POWERPOINT
Click here to download the powerpoint birthday presentation from The Business breakfast at Bewleys
The Business Breakfast
The foodie table
Joining John at the foodie table in Bewleys were:
Peter Caviston, Caviston's Food Emporium, Glasthule, Co. Dublin
http://www.cavistons.com
Yvonne Scully, BiaKid
http://www.biakid.ie
John Cahill, Campbell Bewley group
http://bewleys.com
The tech table
Joining John at the Technology company table were:
Jamie McCormick, English Marketing Manager, Gala Networks Europe, Digital Hub
http://en.gpotato.eu/
John Dunne, MD, Intune Networks, Park West,Dublin.
http://www.intunenetworks.com/
Colm Lyon, MD, Realex Payments, Monkstown, Dublin.
http://www.realexpayments.com/
Diane Roberts.National Director, Halo Business Angels Network.
https://www.businessangels.ie/
'Giggin' in God's Gaff'!!
The Gardiner Street Gospel Choir Joined us for a bit of spiritual uplift in Bewleys on Grafton Street. They sang 'Working on a building' as well as a special version of 'Happy birthday' for the 25th anniversary of PowerPoint.
The Gardiner Street Gospel Choir ,formed in 2000, includes among its members, people from nearby and elsewhere who have strong family links with Gardiner Street. They also reflect Dublin as it is today, coming from diverse backgrounds in Ireland and elsewhere....
The Gardiner Street Gospel Choir play every Sunday in St Francis Xaviers Church on Gardiner Street Dublin 1 @ 7.30pm.
http://www.gardinerstreetgospelchoir.com
Singing (and playing) for your supper.
Katriona found two of Grafton street's more enterprising businesspeople, who provide a 'musical atmosphere' on the famous thoroughfare (buskers, in other words!) Kevin was made redundant from his sales & advertising job in the magazine industry last April. He decided to go busking fulltime, and is doing reasonably well, thank you very much.Kevin plays guitar and sings popular songs like Kings of Leon and U2. He sings his own stuff late night.
Bill Galligan has been 30 years busking on Grafton Street and all over the country. He's seen all the changes on the street. He plays the mandolin and guitar but only does instrumental stuff saying that "song lyrics encourage all sorts of idiots".
Bill Galligan: www.BillGalligan.com
Happy Birthday Mr. PowerPoint
Yes folks, it really is a quarter of a century since the humble PowerPoint entered the world of Business, and we've decided to celebrate. We've had a cake made (yes we really did, Cakes online did it for us, http://www.cakesonline.ie ). Rowan Manahan, founder of fortify services, a Dublin-based consulting and career management firm gave us a special presentation on PowerPoint.
http://www.fortifyservices.com/
Programme 51: 26th September 2009
ETHICAL BANKING - CAN THEY EVEN SPELL ETTICKLE?
Charles Middleton is Managing Director, Triodos BankUK, which is Europe's largest "Ethical" bank. Charles Middleton is one of the key speakers at a one day seminar on Ethical Finance and the global economic crisis in Dublin next Saturday October 3rd at Sophia House, 25 Cork St Dublin. Find out more about the day at www.anthroposophy.ie/ethical_finance
While ethical and banking are not two words one might stick together in the Irish context, it is a serious business in Europe and North America, where they invest in range of business in the Fairtrade, Environment and community areas. Before joining in March 2003, Charles worked with Barclays in a number of different roles including general management positions in India, Africa and The Caribbean. Triodos has a number of investments in Ireland including The Gyreum, in Sligo and the Walkinstown Association and the Clondalkin Community Property Development Company, both in Dublin.
To find out more on these Irish Projects click here http://www.rte.ie/thebusiness/triodos.doc
Triodos Bank
Brunel House
11 The Promenade
Bristol
BS8 3NN ENGLAND
Web: www.triodos.co.uk/uk/about_triodos/
Or for more: www.triodos.co.uk/knowwhereyourmoneygoes/
To hear a longer version of the interview with Charles Middleton Click here
AN APP A DAY KEEPS THE DEBT COLLECTOR AWAY
In the awesomely trendy world of hitek, Apple's I-phone has become a bit on an
I-con, and a huge range of add on features are available from a huge range of small (and big) software producers. These are called APPS, short for Applications- the fact that it sounds like Apple, is no coincidence because Apple is to marketing what Michael O'Leary is to expletives. Very f****** good! Some of these apps are really usefu, some are a joke, some are free but none is that expensive.And they can make money for small and medium companies. 3 of the Irish Apps producers came in to inform techno-phobe John Murray how this all works. Check out the range of Irish apps at www.apps.ie
Paul Reilly,
Web: www.subsonic.ie
Dermot Daly,
Web: www.tapadoo.com
Damian O'Suilleabhain,
Web: www.os3.ie
WEAVE ME A BROADBAND CONNECTION, WILL YOU?
Following the great broadband race last week, Brian Hanly of John Hanly and Co, contacted us with his horror story on broadband.. A short story .. there is none in his part of North Tipperary! Brian weaves us a sorry tale. John Hanly & Co Ltd is one of Ireland's few surviving textile mills, based in Ballyartella outside Nenagh, Co Tipp. The company has always been under the management of the Hanly family and Brian Hanly is now the fourth Managing Director. In 1893 they moved to Ballyartella taking a vacant mill beside the Nenagh River with a large wheel providing the power to operate the machinery. That was the age of coal, steel and water and the broadband worked as well then as it does now.
John Hanly & Co Ltd, Ballyartella Woollen Mills,Nenagh, Co Tipperary, Ireland
Tel: +353 (0)67 24278
EMail; jhanly@iol.ie
Web: www.johnhanly.com
Brian Hanly pulls rug from under broadband providers
MULTITASKING IS BAD FOR... YOUR MULTITASKING
Eyal Ophir,is a researcher is the Symbolic Systems area in Stranford University, California, USA . The Symbolic Systems Program (SSP) focuses on computers and minds: artificial and natural systems that use symbols to represent information, but his particular area is multitasking. And one of the things his research group found out was that the more media people use the worse they are at using any media, which shocked them or in other words the more you multitask the worse we are at doing it. And are women better than men - well tested that live with Susan Moylett, owner of Susan Hunter in Dublin and Jamie Myerscough of Educogym in Dundrum and Blackrock Dublin
Eyal Ophir
Email: eyal.ophir@gmail.com or
Web: http://symsys.stanford.edu/
Susan Hunter Lingerie
13 Westbury Mall
Grafton Street Dublin 2
Tel: 01 679 1271
Email: susanhunter@eircom.net Web: www.susanhunter.ie
Dundrum EducoGym -Email: dundrum@educogym.com Blackrock EducoGym - Email : blackrock@educogym.com and for both Tel: 1850 737 737
www.educogym.com/ireland.aspx
THEM'S PLOUGHING WORDS IN ATHY
James Reeves of Athy, Co Kildare, is a teacher/farmer/entrepreneur who has founded The Student Press, a full-colour monthly tabloid newspaper designed to help secondary school students find out about the print media. Following very positive responses from schools and students alike to two pilot issues, the third issue - the first issue for the new academic year in September - is currently being put together and will be distributed free of charge within the classroom to over 50,000 senior cycle students in secondary schools throughout the country.
The Irish Student Press
Barrowford, Athy, Co Kildare
Tel: (059) 863 1305
Mobile: 087 928 2188
Email: info@studentpress.ieWeb: www.studentpress.ie.
(ANTI) VIRAL MARKETING
US computer security company, McAfee, are growing in Ireland and are holding interviews at the moment to increase their Cork operation by 120 jobs up to 300. Senior vice president at mcafee, tim bizley, is the man in charge of the recruitment and from their base in in Cork, he told John a story with a happy ending. To find out more about any jobs vacant go to www.mcafee.com
Programme 50: 19th September 2009
NAMA NAMA- HEY HEY - KISS IT GOODBYE!
Blind people in the pub with your knowledge! Become an economics expert overnight! Join any leading financial institution as an economist just on the strength of this!
The Business presents the bluffers' guide to THE NATIONAL ASSET MANAGEMENT AGENCY by DCU lecturer Tony Foley. Tony Foley is head of the economics, finance and entrepreneurship group in DCU Business School and was Director of the Local Government MBA programme and executive MBA in DCUBS.
Coming shortly: the easy to understand condensed version of the Lisbon Treaty (do not hold your breath)
If you want to download the full Bluffers' Guide- http://www.rte.ie/thebusiness/biznama.doc
E-Mail: anthony.foley@dcu.ie
Web: www.dcu.ie
AS BROAD AS IT IS SLOW
Back in January we held the inaugural Business Broadband race, when four users of wireless broadband raced against each other to download a file from the Programme page of the RTE website. This time round we pitted four fixed line broadband users against each other. The winner was Richie Fitzgerald, using Eircom Broadband in Bundoran, Co. Donegal. Should you wish to see how fast yours is you can have a go at the test we set- http://www.rte.ie/radio1/thebusiness/broadbandtest2.wmv or you can do a full speed test at www.irishisptest.com
Our 4 willing broadband victims were:
Richie Fitzgerald
Surfworld
Main Street,
Bundoran,
Co Donegal
Tel: 071 98421223
Email: info@surfworldireland.com
Web: www.surfworldireland.com
Michael FitzGerald
SwiftAccounts.ie
Unit 109, Business Innovation Centre
National University of Ireland, Galway
Upper Newcastle, Galway, Ireland
t: +353 91 473138
m: +353 86 8331710
e: michael@swiftaccounts.ie
w: www.swiftaccounts.ie
Yasmin Hyde,
Ballymaloe Country Relish
Courtstown Park, Little Island, Co. Cork
Tel: (0)21 4354810
http://www.ballymaloecountryrelish.ie
Liz McGonigal
EMcG Public Relations
29 Seafort Avenue
Sandymount
Dublin 4
Tel: 01 6681314
Fax: 01 6697686
Email: info@emcgpr.ie
ON THE BANKS OF MY OWN LOVELY FARMLEIGH
On the week that the Australians pulled out of Eircom, John talked to Paul O'Sullivan CEO of Optus Telecommunications, the second largest Telecoms provider in Australia. Paul grew up in Dublin, graduated from Trinity and has spent the last 22 years down under. He is one of the many business people in Dublin this week to attend the "We Haven't A Clue How To Get Out Of This Mess So Please Give Us Some Ideas", or to give it the proper name, The Global Irish Economic Summit.
Web: www.optus.com.au
THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE ALL IRELAND BIZ QUIZ
While the side show goes on in Croke Park this weekend, the real contest is the All Ireland BIZ-QUIZ, where Cork and Kerry Business teams go head to head in a sick as a parrot game of 2 halves.. And there's even a cup for the winning county - not the Sam but the Tom - our thanks to Tom Watkins of the Trophy Gallery for this prized item. Our teams are;
KINGDOM
Ogie Sheehy of You Comply
Web: www.youcomply.com
John Rice, of Jam Media
Web: www.jammedia.ie
REBELS
Ciara Crossan of WeddingDates.ie
Web: www.weddingdates.ie
Ciara Feeley of FindaConferenceVenue.com
Web: www.FindaConferenceVenue.com
Tom Watkins
Trophy Gallery
19 North Frederick Street
Dublin 1
Tel: 01 8746902
BREAKING BALL/NEWS - CORK BEAT KERRY! In a hard fought but thankfully sending off free game. Cork came in 2.2 to 1.2 winners.
John joins pitch invasion as winning Cork team parade with trophy
SWISHING YOU WERE HERE
Katriona McFadden went swishing for us this week. The poor woman was forced by the severe production team on the Business to give her clothes away. As part of the Spend Clever + Live Better campaign, Katriona went to a Swishing Party, where women - and some men allegedly - swap til they drop. And if you want to find out more, Shebeen Chic on Dublin's Georges Street are running their Swishing Party this afternoon ( Saturday) from 12 to 4.
Shebeen Chic
4 South Great Georges St,
Dublin 2
Tel;01 6799667
Web: www.shebeenchic.ie
Spend Clever + Live Better
Reuse. Repair. Research alternatives. Borrow. Barter. Break bad habits.
For three weeks, September 7th to 25th, RTÉ Spend Clever Live Better brings experience, advice and encouragement on how to survive these challenging times and improve your quality of life.
Click here to visit the Spend Clever Live Better website.
Programme 49: 12th September 2009
BONNY BABY COMPETITION
THE WINNER OF OUR BONNY BABY CONTEST IS...
Frank Doyle [22 months]
THE NAMA HAIRCUT: 50% OFF!
Conor McAllister of Grafton Barbers gaveve John a NAMA haircut; And last Wednesday ( hereafter to be renamed NAMA DAY) from 3 til 4, the following barbers offered a 50% off discount
Grafton Barbers
Flagship shop
51 Grafton Street
Dublin 2
01 679 6984
www.graftonbarbers.com
The Grand Barbers in Altro Vitro Grand Canal Square Dublin 2
Joe's Barber Shop at the Bull Wall Wooden Bridge in Clontarf
Razors Edge Donabate Town Centre, Dublin
Churchtown Barbers, Dublin
Ballyboden Barbers, Dublin
Ronnie Barber's, Warrington place Dublin.
And Kiddies Kuts in Dublin's Jervis centre and in Mothercare stores thoughout the country will be offering a range of discounts between now and the next budget- after all, the kids will still be paying for NAMA long after their hair has fallen out
BEGORRAH! IT'S QVC'S IRISH CELEBRATION
Two Irish gift producers join John in studio straight from their appearance on American shopping channel, QVC.
Stephen Walsh
JC Walsh Connemara Marble
Rathfarnham Village
Dublin 14
jcwalsh@connemaramarble.com
www.connemaramarble.com
Barbara Campbell
Fragrances of Ireland
Kilmacanogue
Co. Wicklow
01 2867125
01 2866501
mail@perfume.ie
www.Perfume.ie
SWIMMING FOR THEIR [IRISH] LIFE
Katriona McFadden went swimming in Dublin's Forty Foot with employees of Irish Life who are swimming the English Channel to raise funds for the Irish Cancer Society. To donate to the swimmers:
www.iasc-swim.com
PHOENIX FROM THE FLAMES
John takes a tour of Hangar 5 in Dublin Airport with Conor McCarthy of Dublin Aerospace.
Dublin Aerospace
Hangar 5
Dublin Airport
01 857 0581
conor.mccarthy@dublinaerospace.com
www.DublinAerospace.com
ANYONE FOR A GRILLING?
Dragon, Gavin Duffy, and former Presidential Advisor, Eileen Gleeson, chat with John about the changing environment for media training in the world of communications.
Gavin Duffy
www.MediaTraining.ie
Eileen Gleeson
Chairman of Weber Shandwick
www.WeberShandwick.ie
Programme 48: 5th September 2009
THE DOWNTURN IS OVER. FOR BIRTHS, ANYWAY
In the week that the Central Statistics Office announced a baby boom in Ireland, we run the inaugural The Business Bonnie Baby Contest. The judge is Aisling O'Donoghue from www.BabyTravelShop.ie in Dublin.
Aisling O'Donoghue
www.BabyTravelShop.ie
60 Merrion Square
Dublin 2
01 400 4400
sales@babytravelshop.com
OLIVER FEELS THE SQUEEZE [BOX]
Two years ago Oliver O'Connell, from Co. Clare, was employing 32 people and turning over up to EUR 5m a year in his tool hire business. When his construction-related customers started going out of business - and failing to pay their bills, it led to his own company being liquidated. But he's turned it around and has just launched a new web-based business selling a range of products for fans of traditional music - a taste of which, Oliver will be providing us with by means of his trusty accordion.
Oliver O'Connell
www.TradHead.com
MUSSEL BOUND
At the moment the Irish 'bottom culture' mussel industry is worth about €25 million per year. A new industry-wide alliance is being planned to protect the industry for the future and to make more of this uniquely Irish natural resource. Tim Desmond reports from a trade buyer's showcase held at Woodstown beach in County Waterford to promote the business and the newly formed alliance (Irish Registered Mussel Fishing Vessel Alliance). John spoke to two of the founding members:
Paul Barlow
Woodstown Bay Shellfish Limited,
The Harbour, Dunmore East,
Co Waterford.
051 383664
paulbarlo@eircom.net
Gerard Kelly,
Fresco Seafoods,
Greencastle,
Co. Donegal
074-9381356
074-938141
TOP MARKS FOR CLEAN BINS
The man in the van this week is Clive Marks, who owns and runs Enviro Clean which operates a mobile wheelie bin washing service in the Dublin area.
Clive marks
ENVIROCLEEN
Commercial & Domestic Wheeled Bin Washers
PO Box 10940
Baldoyle
Dublin 13
Tel/Fax: +353 41 981 3738
Mobile: +353 87 6872228
e-mail:envirocleen@eircom.net
DESIGN FOR LIFE
Noel Joyce had been in the Defence Forces for four years when a mountain-biking accident resulted in him losing the use of his legs. Being wheelchair bound also forced Noel to reconsider his career. While still in hospital, Noel applied to start a degree course in design at Carlow IT. His Eureka moment came three years into that course, when he came up with a new idea for wheelchair brakes that has made it to the last 15 in the global James Dyson Awards. He and backer, Michael Burke [also mentor on The Business], come into studio.
Noel Joyce
Inventor, ErgoStop
Carlow Institute of Technology
Joycey210@hotmail.com
Programme 47: 30th August2009
The Business team decided to take a trip to Dublin Zoo for our final Sunday morning programme. Next week the programme moves to Saturday mornings, But for now it was friends of the programme, a very large Cake (to be used for economic education purposes) and a selection of Sushi (to be used before the picnic to explain the NAMA proposals)
Our driver:
We decided to treat ourselves like ministers on our way to The Business picnic at Dublin Zoo. Our driver for the day was Michael Conlon from Xcars, and the wheels, the Hummer H2. Room for the whole cabinet!
Xcars is located just 5 minutes from Drogheda Town, 20 minutes from Dublin Airport & approximately 40 minutes from Dublin City Centre. They cover counties Louth, Meath, Dublin & Down.
Michael Conlon
Xcars
Phone: (085) 774 6770
Fax: (041) 988 4924
Email: info@xcars.ie
The picnickers:
George Harold & Kieran Beggan,
Integrated Facilities Solutions.
Ireland Office
Block 8, Blanchardstown
Corporate Park
Dublin 15, Ireland
T: +353 (0)1 809 7262
F: +353 (0)1 809 7514
Integrated Facilities Solutions
Eve Mason,
Creative Nails & Beauty
107b New Cabra Road,
Cabra,
Dublin 7.
Tel : 01-868 6404
info@creativenailsandbeauty.ie.
Jim Power, Economist
Friends First
Friends First House
Cherrywood Business Park
Loughlinstown
Dublin 18
Telephone: +353-1-661 0600
Email: callcentre@friendsfirst.ie
Web: Friends First
Tim Greenwood,
Cooks Academy
2 Charlemont Terrace,
Crofton Road,
Dun Laoghaire,
Co. Dublin, Ireland.
Telephone: +353 1 214 5002
Fax:+353 1 214 5923
Email: info@CooksAcademy.com
Web : Cooks academy
Jacquie Marsh
The Butler's Pantry
Southern Cross Business Park,
Boghall Road,
Bray, Co. Wicklow
Phone: (01) 276 1431 /2761094
email: food@thebutlerspantry.ie
Web: The Butler's Pantry
Mimi & Myles Doyle,
Mimitoys, Mimifurniture & Preschool Ireland
Unit 3,
Oaktree Business Park,
Trim,
Co Meath,
Tel: 01 529 2297 or locall 1890 520 025
Web: www.mimitoys.ie
Ciaran Crean,
MicksGarage.ie
Unit 9
Dublin Docklands Innovation Park,
128 - 130 East Wall Road,
Dublin 3
Tel: 01-4406603
Email:info@MicksGarage.ie
Web:www.micksgarage.ie
Leo Oosterweghel,
Director,
Dublin Zoo.
Dublin, Ireland.
Tel: ++ 353 (0)1 474 8900 |
Fax: ++ 353 (0)1 677 1660
Web: Dublin Zoo
Programme 46: 23rdAugust2009
ON YOUR BIKE, RICHIE
As the last stage of the Tour of Ireland cycling race kicks off, reporter Richie Beirne is live at the scene. He talks to General Manager of Failte Ireland [South West], Jenny de Saulles about the tourism impact of the Tour of Ireland, and also to Daragh Murphy, who's been making a living for five years designing and printing funny t-shirts that have developed a cult following.
And the winners are!
On the Sunday 23rd of August programme we asked people to text in their names for a reality TV show to feature Irish banker's appearances before an Oireachtas committee, as outlined by Colm Mac Carthey during the week:
The creative angst of our listeners was quickly resolved :
"Strictly come financing " from Paul Lyons from Dublin 9
"Big Bust" from Joe Walsh Carrigaline, Co. Cork.
"Bankety Blank" from Elaine Stephen, Dublin 9.
"NAMA your price" from Bob Correy ,Co Wicklow.
"Owe me the money" from Ger O Mahony, Bishopstown,Cork.
"The bad bad bank show" from Deirdre Connolly, Knocklyon, Dublin16.
"IOU Factor" from Gerry Brett ,Passage West, Co. Cork.
"Hey, Hairy-Banker, who's your Daddy now?" from Maria Donohoe, Athy ,Co Kildare..
"Ready Steady Cook the Books" from Paula Tierney ,Monasterevin , Co. Kildare
"Take the money and run" from Kevin Devitte,Westport .Co Mayo
The winners get a specially commissioned Hairy baby business T shirt with this specially designed logo:
NAMA SONG BY THE CORRRIGAN BROTHERS .. WATCH IT HERE
Fáilte Ireland South West
Arás Fáilte
Grand Parade
Cork
www.FailteIreland.ie
Daragh Murphy
Kinsale Commercial Park
Kinsale
Co Cork
www.HairyBaby.com
NOT SO MERRI THESE DAYS.MAN.
The tradition of the summer school is alive and well and no harm too, there's plenty to talk about in uncertain times. Dave O'Connell visited The 2009 Merriman School in Ennis county Clare One of the speakers this year was John Mc Hale, a native of Waterford he has until recently been associate professor of economics of the Queen's University in Canada, and has recently become Professor of Economics in NUI Galway.
Professor John McHale Ph.D., M.Econ.Sc.
E Mail john.mchale@nuigalway.ie
Telephone: 353-91-494076
Location: Room 108, Ground Floor, St. Anthony's
Merriman Summer school website:
Merriman Summer school
IMPACT SUBSTITUTE?
Nearly fifteen years after Irish rugby went professional, the first of that first generation of professionals have retired and moved on to new careers. This week, Grand Slam hero, Jerry Flannery, talks about the pub he runs in Limerick and his recent appointment as director of marketing and advertising company, Impact Media.
Jerry Flannery
Impact Media, Galway
12 Oranmore Business Park
Oranmore
Co. Galway
091 383 200
Impact Media, Limerick
12 City East Business Park, Limerick
061 603 232
hello@impactmedia.ie
www.impactmedia.ie
NO GOATS AT TROUTBRIDGE
With competition in the food sector is tough and getting tougher, Tim Desmond paid a visit to the oldest privately-owned trout farm in the country, where Mag and Ger Kirwan are adapting to meet the demands of the evolving Irish palette.
Goatsbridge Trout Farm
Thomastown
Co. Kilkenny
086 818 8340
info@goatsbridgetrout.ie
www.goatsbridgetrout.ie
GETTING CRAFTY AT THE RDS
Alan Torney brought us live to the Autumn gift and home show, one of the last opportunities of the year for craft producers to promote their products to retailers. Dave spoke to craft producers Dorothy Mathews of Corona Silver and Declan Fearon of Tipperary Crystal. He also spoke to one of the bug buyers at the show,John Pedreschi of Home Store & More.
Tipperary Crystal Designs Ltd
Unit A7, Calmount Park
Calmount Road
Dublin 12
Telephone +353 1 419 1810
Fax: +353 1 4600121
Email: sales@tipperarycrystal.com
Corona Silver.
TEL: +00353 (0)42 9379148
EMAIL: dorothy@coronasilver.ie
WEB : www.coronasilver.ie
Home Store and More
Head Office:
Unit 4
Parkway House
Lower Ballymount Drive
Dublin 12
EMAIL: info@homestoreandmore.ie
WEB :Home store and more
Programme 45: 16th August 2009
DAN NAH NAH NAH NAH...
Some of us play guitar better than others, some of us not at all. But now, everyone from novices to experts can look good and play better with the I-Tab.The I-Tab is the world's first portable scrolling guitar tab player. Put another way, it is a portable electronic song book, a little bit bigger than a mobile phone. John spoke to Andy Hirst from I-Tab and we got Niall Gilchrist from The Music Outlet in Swords to give it the once over. Niall was joined on vocals by Gary Malone.
I-TAB.COM
The Mews,
Kellys Lane,
Maynooth, Co Kildare.
01- 4447948
Email tellme@i-tab.com
Web http://www.i-tab.com/
The Music Outlet
1st Floor, 1 Bridge St.
Swords Village, Dublin
(opposite "The Pound Pub")
01 8700999
Email mail@themusicoutlet.ie
Web http://www.themusicoutlet.ie
SHINE ON YOU CLOGHRAN DIAMOND
John meets the man in the van, Gavin Halpin, a French polisher from Dublin.
Gavin Halpin
Halpin French Polishing
Cloghran,
Co. Dublin
087 261 0261
01 862 4563
RETAIL THERAPY UPDATE
We take the retail temperature with Eddie Shanahan who talks about the latest retail figures and the impact of IKEA on the Irish retail scene.
Eddie Shanahan
Branding, Retail & Fashion Consultant
edmundshanahan@eircom.net
087 237 3225
REGISTER THAT?, YOU CAN IN ME ****!
What's in a name , you might ask. Registering a company name or a trading name should be relatively straightforward for a new company. Not so for Maryrose Lyons, who has a service for assembling flat pack furniture from outlets such as IKEA.
Maryrose Lyons
Simple Assembly Me Hole
www.SimpleAssemblyMeHole.com
01 440 5993
087 7998 066
HALLO DAHLINGS..MWAH MWAH
Richie Beirne treads the boards with a unique company called TOBE
Run by Petra Costigan Oorthuijs from the Netherlands.
The company run training workshops through drama and invite the audience or the staff of the company to give direction on how sales targets can be met and how businesses can be run more efficiently.Pie in the Sky or Good Business practice? Richie Beirne becomes a luvvie and sits in on one of their workshops.
Petra Costigan Oorthuijs
To Be
Web: http://www.tobe.ie/
Email: greetings@tobe.ie
057 862 5006
PROTECT US AND SAVE US
You would imagine that one of the most useful insurance products you could have these days is a policy that covers the repayments on your mortgage in the event of losing your job, but is it worth it? And how much is it? Tim Desmond sorted his way through the policies ...
The financial regulator has some useful information on the subject
A DOG'S LIFE... YEAH, SURE...
Andrea....do you do charity cases?
John went for a spin with the mobile dog grooming business run by Andrea Murphy. It's available in the Dublin area, where the dogs are a bit posh!
Andrea Murphy
Doggie Style
www.doggiestyle.ie
1890 364 443
Programme 44: 9th August 2009
THE RELUCTANT ENTREPRENEURS
Some people spend all their working lives dreaming of it, others wouldn't want it in a millions years, but more and more people these days are leaving the nine to five job , either through voluntary or compulsory redundancy..so what's it like to be a reluctant entrepreneur? John spoke to three of them .
Ogie Sheehy
YouComply Ltd.
Tom Crean Business Centre
Kerry Technology Park
Tralee, Co. Kerry
Telephone:+353-87-1229601
E-mail: J.Sheehy@youcomply.com
Michael Carr
Southern News Network
Second Floor
Building 1000
City Gate,Mahon
Cork
Tel: 00 353 21 2409224
Fax: 00 353 21 2409009
E mail info@southernnewsnetwork.com
Deirdre Collins
Veg-e-Que,
Unit 4, Innishmore Industrial Park
Ballincollig
Cork
E mail http://www.vegeque.com
Web vegeque@gmail.com
THE WHEELS ON THE BUS GO....ONLINE.
As we know, internet access is available in more and more places and the terms Wifi and Bluetooth are not the jargon they once were. Now an Irish company has combined Bluetooth and Wifi technology and put it all on the Buses of a Cobh based company.. Tim Desmond went for a spin into the Bluezone..
BROWNED OFF? FEELING BLUE? REDDY FOR A CHANGE?
We've decided to bring some colour into your lives on The Business. We're offering you the chance to give your workplace a complete makeover free-of-charge.
Gary Doyle and Adele Roche of Colortrend joined John in studio to talk about the the business and offer an Irish company a bit of cheer. to prove her credentials we got Adele to give us a consultation.Based on the format of The Business, she reckons studio 5 should have tints of orange with a soft sheen finish. As there's no natural light, we need the paint to give guests a lift to encourage them to be upbeat. Dull colours drain people's energy.
Listener offer:
o Our listeners will get a chance to get a colour consultation and paint job on a reasonably-sized area [to be decided by us].
o Adele will visit the winning company and make recommendations.
o We're asking listeners to nominate their workplaces for a (partial) makeover - tell us why your company is the most deserving -in not more than 20 words- by email to Thebusiness@rte.ie by close of business on Wednesday, August 12th.
o We might go along and record.
Colortrend
General Paints Limited
Maynooth Road, Celbridge, Co Kildare, Ireland
Tel: 353.1.6288224
Fax: 353.1.6272205
Email: info@generalpaints.ie
Listen HERE for the Colortrend offer details
HANDS FREE MONITORING.
BiancaMed are developing contact-free sensing of heart rate and respiration monitors. Their mission is to transform personal health by providing the ultimate convenience in personal health monitoring. They have developed a very sensitive motion sensor that detects heart rate and respiration - without having to touch a person - completely wirelessly. John paid a visit to their HQ at the Belfield Innovation Park at UCD.
Conor Hanly, CEO & Co-founder, BiancaMed
Donald Fitzmaurice, Chairman BiancaMed; ePlanetVentures
BIANCAMED,
NovaUCD,
Belfield Innovation Park, UCD
Tel: +353 (0)1 7163799.
Fax: +353 (0)1 7163709.
web ; http://www.biancamed.com/home/index.php
YOU SHOW ME YOURS.
This week roving reporter Richie Beirne tramps down to The Tullamore Show in County Offaly for the National Livestock show to talk business with some of the 650 trade stands selling their wares.
Robbie Sweeney
Learn About Shares
Farney Villa
Dyer Street
Drogheda
Co. Louth
Ph. 041 980 5514
Second prize in the Fine Young Bull category goes to Richie Beirne. First went to a Charolais Bull.
Among the people Richie met at Tullamore show wasMary Murphy of
DerryCooley Alpaca Farm & Stud.. ...meet the Alpacas
Programme 44: 2nd August 2009
Tallaght's the story
Having hopped on the Red Line,former editor of the Tallaght Echo David Kennedy showed John around the west Dublin suburb which would stand alone as the third most populated urban area in the country.
Playing their Part-as start-up supporters.
Partas is engaged in is the promotion and development of self-employment opportunities for people living in the Tallaght area. Partas runs four centres, at Killinarden, Tallaght, Brookfield and Bolbrook. John met the following business people at Partas:
John Kearns, CEO
Partas
Killinarden Enterprise Park,
Killinarden, Tallaght,
Dublin 24
Tel :01-4664200
website: www.partas.ie
E mail drichmond@partas.ie
Steven Darcy, photographer
086 054 9301
info@darcyimagery.com
http://www.darcyimagery.com/
Marcella Finnerty, IICP Education & Training
http://www.iicp.ie
087 9049497
Thomas Papp, BAC School of Motoring
ph: 01 459 0795
text only: 087 060 9181
email: info@bacsom.ie
John also met a company which grew out of Partas.
Brothers, Anthony & Joseph Birchall run Gifts.ie , an online hamper and gift company.
www.Gifts.ie
Power to the Paddys
John paid a visit to the powerhouse of the Irish gambling business which has a truly global reach. John spoke to Breon Corcoran, MD of non-retail & development, in other words, the stuff that doesn't happen in the betting shops.
For a longer version of John's visit to paddy Power Click here
John spoke to Con McCarthy,
President, South Dublin Chamber of Commerce
South Dublin Chamber
Tallaght Business Centre
Whitestown Industrial Estate
Tallaght
Dublin 24
T: 353 1 4622107
F: 353 1 4599512
Email: business@sdchamber.ie
Life's a (Planet) Beach
A quick break for the Irish summer and john drops in on 'mentorees' Planet Beach.
Plant Beach Ireland
The GlasHaus
Tallaght Cross
Dublin 24
Tel: 01-4629999
E-Mail: donal.coade@planetbeach.com
Synergetic Start-ups
Synergy Centre at ITT Dublin is the innovation centre of South Dublin County, providing office space and business supports to early-stage enterprises. Their focus is on the high technology and knowledge intensive sectors. The aim is to enable industry and academia to interact to create viable enterprises for South Dublin County that will secure the area's future in terms of job creation, innovation and export potential.
Seamus Kilmartin,
Utility Saver Ireland
Synergy Centre, Institute of Technology Tallaght, Dublin 24
Ph: 1890 825 777
Fax: +353 1 437 0650
Email: seamus@utilitysaver.ie
Web: www.utilitysaver.ie
Karen Bolger,
HowToProjectManage
Synergy Centre, Institute of Technology Tallaght, Dublin 24
Ph:01 6856927
Email: kbolger@howtoprojectmanage.com
Web: www.howtoprojectmanage.ie
Dave McDonnell,
Visual ID Ltd.
Synergy Centre, Institute of Technology Tallaght, Dublin 24
Ph: 00353 1 9022576
Fax:
Email: yvonne@visualid.com
Web: www.visualid.com
Conor McGivern,
Onformonics,
Synergy Centre, Institute of Technology Tallaght, Dublin 24
Ph:00353 1 4407576
Web: Onformonics.com
Galactico Tamers
John drops in on west Dublin's Galactico tamers, Shamrock Rovers
Renaldo under pressure at the Tallaght Stadium
Shamrock Rovers,
Tallaght Stadium,
Whitestown Way,
Tallaght,
Dublin 24.
Tel: 01 460 5948
Email: info@shamrockrovers.ie.
Web: www.shamrockrovers.ie
Programme 43 : 26th July 2009
Vocal for shop Local
"The time is now.. We Need action not words !"
A rallying cry from Bray's Joan of Arc, Anne Marie Holland in a bid to stem the flow of trade out of the town..
And with towns like Bray all over Ireland taking a hit in these tough times..
We on the Business decided to put the mighty Quinn .. i.e Ferghal Q formerly of Superquinn now Senator and wise old owl to troubleshoot the town and suss out what they should do to turn the fate of the main street around.
The result : A five page report which he brought (brave man) to a Bray Traders meeting in Hollands bar main street Bray.
Rubberman.The cows come bouncing back to you.
Boing! They like their rubber in Ballinasloe.
Richie Beirne met rubber men Michael Earls of Easyfix who has developed a unique rubber mat for the equine and cattle industry.
The cows like it too and with increased weight and milk yields, farmers and Stud farms are turning on to the joys of rubber.
EasyFixT Rubber Products Ltd., Persse Park, Aughrim, Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland.
Phone : +353 (0)90 96 43344
Fax : +353 (0)90 96 43345
Email : info@easyfix.ie
DAAN the MAAN. (David actually)
David Crinion was a creditor, owed money by a company which went into liquidation. At the creditors meeting he was offered 4% of what he was owed. He thought this was too little a return, so he found a Dutch Company, which works with liquidators to increase returns. They achieve this by auctioning all lots on the internet, the site usually achieves 30% of retail value for assets. David persuaded the Dutch company to open an Irish office, and let him run it.
He hopes to have 6 full time employees by the end of the year.
The Beast within (Ballyhoura, that is)
The Beast of Ballyhoura Adventure Race is 36 hour non-stop adventure race across the counties Cork, Limerick and Tipperary -
Teams of 4 people Mountain Run, Mountain Bike, Kayak, Abseil and Shoot on a predetermined route through the low lands and uplands of Tipperary, Limerick and Cork including the Galtee Mountains. The races are designed to test competitor's skill levels and endurance in a range of disciplines with all three races incorporating the world class Ballyhoura Mountain Bike Trails.
Tim Desmond didn't take part, but met some of the organisers as they put on the finishing touches to this years event and spoke to some former competitors, including Diarmud Crowley from Wild Orchard Smoothies.
Click Here To Listen to more from Ballyhoura
They Ceim, they saw, they conquered.
Introduction
'Commercialising Entrepreneurial Ideas and Management Development' or CEIM for short is an intensive one-year programme of support offered to aspiring entrepreneurs who have a business idea with commercial potential, a focus on enterprise development and creation in the north west region. Last year's group have spent a week around silicon valley in California, pitching for venture capital and meeting the brightest and best in the high tech capital if the USA. Aiden McKenna of Sokohealth and Gerry Burke from Synergy Flow talked to John from their hotel in San Francisco, just before they headed home.
The CEIM programme is offered by the Institute of Technology, Sligo and Letterkenny Institute of Technology. CEIM is managed by 'WESTBIC', the Business and Innovation Centre for the Border, Midland and Western region and the projects have been supported by Enterprise Ireland and Údarás na Gaeltachta .
Programme 42 :19th July 2009
2 Wheels Good, 4 Wheels Bad:
'Easy Rider' Richie Beirne throws his leg across the AIRBIKE, A new motorbike business set up by Greg Carly and St John Cook who are getting into the fast lane and providing point to point passenger service for people to and from the airport and anywhere else you want to go.
Legal loopholes aside Airbike hopes to be online by August the 4th.
They can be booked for an hour, half day or a full day to get you to that crucial meeting, flight or rendezvous.
www.airbike.ie
m 086 781 7811 (00 353 86 781 7811)
OUCCH.. A Snip in time..
Leaves us banjaxed.. No stone will be unturned.. No Department left intact.. No body is safe . The Business's Mystic Alan Torney gazes into the crystal ball to see what may be left of the County and City Enterprise Boards after the fat has been trimmed. So will we miss them when they streamline, merge and make a shiny new Enterprise Ireland. What will happen all those support bodies for Irish Businesses and were they any use in the first place.
And if you still haven't had enough pain you can get the full monty here ..
http://www.rte.ie/business/2009/0716/spending.html
Welcome to An Bord Snip Nua
Tweetie Tweet /
Ching Ching
Twitterus Birdicus or The Bunting indigo
Go on .. You know you want to.. do a tweet or poke a face book..
Twittering is worth over $1 million in sales for Dell..
So can poking, flickring or twittering give you the mainline to that all important customer?
Business Blade Andrew Deegan from Breakout Gaming Concepts throws a sceptical eye whilst Krishna De who specialises in Social Media clicks and points the way of the future for business looking to exploit the web for business.
Andrew Deegan MD www.breakoutinteractive.com
m (087) 7541036
t (01) 4498114
e acd@breakoutgamingconcepts.com
Krishna De www.krishnade.com t (01) 443 4995 m (086) 812 7838 e connect@bizgrowthnews.com
A KEANE EYE
Oh yeah baby.. Catch it I'm peaking.. Love the camera..
Tara Keane is a photographer with ambition. We hooked her up with Kerry entrepreneur Jerry Kennelly who sold his business StockByte for 110 million euros to Getty Images. One life changing event later, a few contacts and a business plan has got Tara up and running.. So is she going to make the jump into the big unknown.
Keane Eye Photography-
www.keaneeyephotography.com
Yee Haw.. Those mad Yankees are coming to Town..
Pictured is The Business's John Murray oops Nope that's Dov Charney
Just when you thought you didn't need another label along come this crowd and what better time to set up a shop in Grafton Street in Dublin than now. 'American Apparel' is a huge American clothes retailer with an unusual management style. Dov Charney is their CEO and Lisa Derrick LA-based journalist and blogger paints us a pretty picture of the former smuggler, drop out and innovator in the fashion industry..
Lisa's blog: http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/
www.americanapparel.net/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisaderrick
Programme 41 :12th July 2009
'THE BUSINESS SUPERGROUP AT OXEGEN'
John Murray is on lead vocals as usual, but he's assembled
a backing group of players, shakers and movers to live the rockn'roll lifestyle .for just one day!
The line-up is:
Sean Gallagher, Smart Homes, ex. Dragons' Den.
Nick Kelly, musician, director, ad writer.
http://www.nickkelly.ie/
Jim Carroll from the Irish Times.
STYLE IS BOUTIQUE CAMP
Boutique camping is the way to go, if you have the cash to splash. Also known as Glamping , John meets Patch Jobson of boutiquecamping.net providers of classy accommodation solutions to the select few with money to burn at Oxegen.
http://www.boutiquecamping.net
Email for bookings:
office@boutiquecamping.net
'I SEE YOU BABY!'
MUZU TV
A World beating business that has shaken up the industry. They have deals with all the big players Warners and Sony. You can watch music videos for free, create your own playlist get exclusive access to documentaries, old footage.. It's a muso fans paradise. Co founder Ciaran Bollard talks music, cash and the future of the music on the web.
MUZU TV
Head Office
19 South William Street
Dublin 2
Email: info@muzu.tv
Web: http://www.muzu.tv/
STONE MOTION
Stone Motion have been selected to open at this year's IMRO New Sounds Stage at Oxegen. The Blanchardstown based band are also getting 'The Business' makeover from veteran performer Nick Kelly and Dragon's den veteran Sean Gallagher.
The bands website is here....
http://www.stonemotion.ie/home.html
SEE STONE MOTION ON BALCONY TV
Stone motion are:
Jack Bale rhythm guitar and backing vocals.
Mark Ferguson bass and backing vocals.
Gerard Gallagher drums and backing vocals.
James Mc Cabe lead guitar and vocals.
THE WHEELS ON THE BUS GO 'LETS ROOOCK!'
KAVANAGH COACHES
On the road for 90 years and still rolling. Kavanagh Coaches, established in 1919, based in Urlingford are The Name in the Coach Industry.
They have travelled up and down the roads of Ireland through good times and bad. Always looking out for new business, this year they are servicing Oxegen 09 and Richie Beirne jumped aboard The Oxegen Bus en route to the festival to meet brothers Kavanagh.
JJ Kavanagh and sons
Main St,
Urlingford
Co Kilkenny
PH :0818 333 222
http://www.jjkavanagh.ie
BANGERS AND SPLASH.
In the early 1970's Seamus Moran's father pioneered the processing of sea vegetables for the retail trade. Following in the family tradition, Seamus always aspired to start his own business based around the natural resources of Clew Bay. When the family moved back to Westport In 2002, Carmel and Seamus decided the time was right. They launched their Seaweed Sausage range in March 2007 and is one of the fine food businesses offering their products at Oxygen 2009.
LoTide Fine Foods
Moyna, Kilmeena,
Westport, Co Mayo
Telephone: +353 98 42616.
Mobile: +353 87 6347470
Email: info@lo-tide.com
GOLDEN HILL I SCREAM
Goldenhill Ice cream
Damien and Aoife Clarke , the owners of Goldenhill Ice Cream keep the festival goers cool over the weekend at Oxegen,
Goldenhill Ice cream
Goldenhill Farm,
Manor Kilbride,
Blessington,
Co. Wicklow
(ph) 01 4582017
Email: info@goldenhill.ie
Web: www.goldenhill.ie
CLICK HERE TO SEE RTE SIX ONE NEWS REPORT ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE FESTIVAL...http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/2577302.smil
Programme 40:
SHARES THE WEALTH
Earlier this week, Davy Stockbrokers announced a new system for rating stocks and issued a list of ten stocks they believe will out perform the market this year, so have the markets bottomed out and is now the right time to get back in?.......
Dan White is Business writer with the Evening Herald and the Sunday Independent,
Barry Dixon is head of research at Davy research.
Davy
Davy House, 49 Dawson St, Dublin 2,
Ireland
Tel 353 1 679 7788
www.davy.ie
Click here for more from Barry Dixon
RISING FROM THE DEBT
MICHELLE LYNCH & KAREN ERWIN,
DEBT MANAGEMENT MEDIATION LTD.
When we hear reports of big developers meeting their bankers to renegotiate the terms of their loans, it can be a bit hard for smaller bank customers to take: When small businesses find it hard to repay their debts, the banks' response is often less flexible.
However, there were signs from the banks this week that this approach might be about to change. A new mediation service - developed in consultation with the main banks - is the brainchild of the two women sitting opposite me.
Michelle Lynch is a barrister and mediator whose Cavan-based international trade company, Crannagh & Co., has featured on The Business before.
Karen Erwin is a solicitor who was Executive Director of the Irish Times and is now one of Ireland's most experienced mediators.
www.debtmanagementmediation.com
FOLLOWING UP THE CREDIT CARD SCAMS
Following last week's horror story of a banking scam in Ranelagh, John Delaney of Intrade.com and photographer Margaret Moore have more cautionary tales to tell on the perils of dealing with issues such as credit card 'chargeback' .
John Delaney
Intrade
Unit A1, Hume House
Hume Centre, Hume Avenue
Park West Industrial Park
Dublin 12, IRELAND
353-1-442-8402
353-1-442-8402
Fax - 353-1-5240958
www.intrade.com
Margaret Moore
Photogenic Photographers,
9 railway road,
Dalkey,
Co.Dublin.
+353-1-2845544
+353-1- 2849922
Fax +353-1-2845697
E-mail Contactus@photogenic.ie
http://www.photogenic.ie
BACK TO THE EDGE
John meets up with David Mulqueen and James Swan from The Edge Fitness studio and their mentor Liam Griffin. Until December, David and James had been working as private trainers based out of the Westwood Club in Clontarf. When their business arrangement with Westwood ended, they ambitiously set up their own personal training studio across the road.
In February, shortly after they launched their business, we introduced the lads to Liam Griffin, who brought the Wexford hurlers to All Ireland glory in 1996, and who is one of the country's leading hoteliers.
David Mulqueen
Tel:086 173 9102
Email: david@theedgeclontarf.com
James Swan
Tel: 087 696 8336
Email: james@theedgeclontarf.com
Website: www.theedgeclontarf.com
Liam Griffin
Griffin Group
Website: www.griffingroup.ie
THE NUMBERS GAME
Tim Desmond visited the Headquarters of the Central Statistics Office to get the background on the unemployment figures.
http://www.cso.ie
Central Statistics Office, Skehard Road, Cork, Ireland.
Tel: 353-21-4535000 |
Fax: 353-21-4535555
LoCall: 1890 313 414
e-mail: webmaster@cso.ie
Contact Census: LoCall 1890 236 787
e-mail: census@cso.ie
Click here to hear more from the CSO
MUFFIN MADNESS IN GLENAMADDY
Follow your nose on any of the four roads (Good man Big Tom!) to Glenamaddy where Brogan's Bakery have cooked up a 14 million euro Muffin deal with Tesco.Brogan's already supplies 80 million muffins every year to Tesco as well as fresh bread to its stores in Galway, Mayo and Roscommon.
The bakery which now employs over ninety people had humble beginnings in 1967 when Michael Brogan's father set up the business with just three employees. Our own resident 'Oompa Loompa' - Richie Beirne meets the Muffin Maestro Michael Brogan at the factory in Glenamaddy Co. Galway.
Brogans Bakery
Kilkerrin Road
Glenamaddy Co Galway
Co Galway
Ireland
Phone : ?+353 94 9659042
Fax : ?+353 94 9659775
Fax : ?+353 94 9659775
Programme 39: 28 June 2009
LOST IN AUSTIN
Austin Hughes is chief economist with KBC Asset Management and a frequent commentator on the programme. He pleads not guilty to the charge of being an overheater of the economy, but in the week when the OECD and IMF have released post mortem reports on the Celtic Tiger, he can guide us through the economic graveyard.
KBC Asset Management Ltd
Joshua Dawson House
Dawson Street
Dublin 2
Tel: 01 438 4400
Web: www.kbcam.com
BANK ROBBERY IN RANELAGH
Andrea Rochford runs Float in Dublin's Ranelagh, a business based around Flotation Therapy but including Massage Therapy, Colonic Irrigation, Skin Treatments, etc. Recently she fell foul of our majestic banking system, the one that the IMF nominated as the envy of ..maybe Zimbabwe. She relates this particular horror story in gory detail. Business people of a financially sensitive nature should not listen to this.
Float
First Floor,
Ranelagh Court,
Chelmsford Road,
Ranelagh,
Dublin 6
Tel: 01 4964124
Email: ranelagh@float.ie
Web: www.float.ie
CURE FOR LUMPY MATTRESS
Losing sleep as a result of the lumpy mattress caused by his stash of cash Peter Mooney went in search of novel and hopefully profitable ways to invest his loot..
He checked out cigars at the Decent Cigar Emporium with Guy Hancock. Old Toys, Wines with Mary Dowey and gems with Carol Clarke
Mary Dowey is the wine editor of Gloss magazine
The Courtyard,
40 Main Street,
Blackrock, C
o Dublin,
Tel 01 275 5130
Web: www.thegloss.ie
Carol Clarke
7 Royal Hibernian Way,
Dawson St,
Dublin 2,
Te;: 01 6777161,
Email: carol@irishjewel.com
Web: www.dublinjewelleryvaluations.ie
Des Cooney organises old toy fairs
Tel:01-2851308
Guy Hancock
Decent Cigar Emporium
46 Grafton Street
Dublin 2
IRELAND
Tel: 01 671 6451
EMAIL:info@decent-cigar.com
Web; www. decent-cigar.com
THE RECESSION WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES
Louise Campbell is the Managing Director of the Irish end of international recruitment company, Robert Walters Recruitment. Robert Walters is one of the world's leading global recruitment consultancies in business since 1985. They have just carried out a survey on how employees are reacting to the recession- working longer without pay, being more productive or is that the picture in reality. Louise tells John all.
Robert Walters Dublin
2nd Floor
Riverview House
21 - 23 City Quay
Dublin 2
Tel: 01 633 4111
Email: info@robertwalters.com
Web: www.robertwalters.com
RIDING THE WAVES OF DOWNTURN
Richie Beirne goes "rip curl" up in Bundoran, Co Donegal- and that's not his new "Something about Mary" hair gel in action.. Its surfing jargon and surfing is big business in the town. RICHIE FITZGERALD was born and raised in Bundoran, County Donegal, The family shop is called Surfworld and he runs his own surf school for intermediate and pro surfers. Richie ( Fitz not Beirne) represented Ireland at both World and European Championships, and he is MR Surf in Bundoran- sure, he's even starred in surf classics like Eye of the Storm directed by Joel Conroy.
Richie also met musician and former Irish Surfer Onya O Doherty whose family owns The Chasing Bull Bar in Bundoran and have ridden the changes and the economic tide that surfing has brought to the town. Onya is a respected performer and is opening the Sea Sessions festival, Bundoran's celebration of their new found surf culture. A side line is their own label musicminders.com the link is above and they manage all the acts that come into the pub.
Surfworld
Main Street,
Bundoran,
Co Donegal
Tel: 071 98421223
Email: info@surfworldireland.com
Web: www.surfworldireland.com
Putting the bull in Bundoran
Musicminders web: www.adventure-ireland.com/musicminders/links.html
NOTHING SUCKSEEDS LIKE BUDGIES (THEY HAVE NO TEETH)
Leiitrim man Tim Rooney of Surfseeds, passed by to say hello to Richie. We have been following Tim's company from early on - last Autumn he had remortgaged the house and had a warehouse full of product to shift so is that shed in Leitrim empty? And has he made his target of 100,000 sales yet?
Tim Rooney,
Surfseeds
The Food Hub
Carrick Road
Drumshanbo
Co. Leitrim
Tel:087 911 5500
Web:www.surfseeds.com
Programme 39: 21 June 2009
HICKORY DICKORY DOCK?
The huge level off attention focussed on Galway's Dockland due to the Volvo Race's recent arrival and the ensuing mega-hooley, has opened the debate on what to do with the area. In the fiuture.. The removal of the 2 large and incredibly ugly " tank farms" from the docks has opened up huge potential.. Dave O'Connell was taken on a tour of Galway's Docks by Harbourmaster Brian Sheridan along with, Mary Bennett, of Treasure Chest, selling fine china and lots more for over 40 years in Galway City centre.
Brian Sheridan, Harbourmaster, Galway Harbour Company
(+353) 91 562329
info@galwayharbour.com
Mary Bennett
31/33 William Street
Galway
www.treasurechest.ie
marybennett@eircom.net
091 563862
WEST IS EAST
Obviously feelinG the need to dispose of the several hundred thousand Euro burning a hole in his pocket, Dave O'Connell went along to an event on buying property in Bulgaria, organised by Galway based Benen Tierney, of West Properties International. Bulgarian Ambassador, Emil Yalnazov was in attendance and painted a rosy picture of investment in the eastern state, Well, he would have to, really. Dave tested the water with a few eager investors, but we think he left without lightening his pockets.
Benen Tierney,
West Properties International
Unit 3, Railway Line,
Deekpark Ind. Est.,
Galway
www.WestIncporporated.ie
.
NORMALLY PRAGMATICA MAN PUTS BOOT IN
Well respected management strategist, and good friend of the Business, Pearce Flannery gave a speech at the Western Management Forum during the week.. and? Well, he had a good lash at the government. Now, for a man of measured comments to do this, must mean that "he's mad and he's not going to take it any more"..
Pearce Flannery
Pragmatica
Suite 12, Floor 2, Royal Court Business Centre, Liosban, Galway.
Tel:091 770002
Web: www.Pragmatica.ie
MORE CUTS BUT THIS TIME PROFITABLE ONES?
Back in March, we teamed up the CEO of one of the biggest hi-tech multinationals in Ireland, Martin Murphy of Hewlett-Packard with Conor & Deirdre McCormack of Mcor Technologies in Co Louth. The McCormack have come up with a most astounding piece of technology allowing 3d scale paper models to be made from sheets of paper. Really hard to visualise, but designers and architects, manufacturers and all sorts of people need these models and this is a totally unique and world beating piece of kit.. Martin took a keen interest in this and he talks to Conor & Deirdre about the progress since March and how things look for the future.
Conor & Deirdre McCormack
Mcor Technologies
Unit 7,
John Street Industrial Park,
Ardee,
Co Louth
Tel: 041 6858459
Email: info@mcortechnologies.com
Web: www.mcortechnologies.com
Martin Murphy
Hewlett-Packard Ireland
Liffey Park Technology Campus (LPTC)
Barnhall Road
Leixlip
Kildare, Ireland
Tel: 01 6150000
Web: http://welcome.hp.com
WHERE THERE'S A WILL (MALLARD)!
Richie Beirne hopped the ball with corner forward, Will Mallard of Fr Griffins Eire Og at their grounds in Galway. One of the many buzz words in business is "Networking".. Well this is how it works in practice. He has started to use the club's social social resources and the pool of people associated with Fr Griffins Eire Og to make things happen for their members who are having a rough time in the current recession. Will hails from New Zealand and comes from a rugby background, and has started self help and advice sessions for club members - a model he hopes that all sporting and social organisations could use to help themselves.
E-mail: info@ griffinseireog.com
or will.mallard@gmail.com
Web: www.griffinseireog.com
Eire Og - active on the ground
GOLD WINDS OF RECESSION
ForgottenGold.com promise to get the maximum value out of those old jewels or trinkets sitting about. Niall Marren tells Dave how he and his partner, Janet Howard, quit their high powered management consultancy jobs and decided to form their own gold rush. Their ambition is to be the biggest recylers of gold in Europe. So how are the people with the seeming Midas touch doing?
ForgottenGold.com
Glasson Recycling Ltd.
Galway Technology Centre,
Mervue,
Galway,
Ireland
Tel: 091 704 842
Email: info@forgottengold.com
Web:www.ForgottenGold.ie
Programme 39: 14 June 2009
Click here for a longer Review of the Week
BETTER THAN NO BREAD?
Halfaloaf is a non profit website aimed at providing a forum and outlet for those that are unemployed. Social networking for people on the dole may not seem like rocket science but it hasn't been done. Well, at least not until budding entrepreneur Tom O'Mahony came up with halfaloaf. Many people on the dole lose their social contacts that come with work, and virtual mates are better than none. Tom fills Dave in on how it works and why nobody has done this before
Email: info@halfaloaf.ie
Web: www.halfaloaf.ie
F_ _ _PLAY FROM _ANKERS?
2 business people coming from entirely different geographical and commercial areas, contacted us with banking nightmare stories. Yes, the very same banks, who are being propped up with our money and who are being recapltailised at our expense to get credit flowing again.. And are they doing the job: well according to the banks, yes,, But according to ISME, Brodie Sweeny ( on last wsek's show) and our 2 complainants here, the answer is a big NO.
Noel Forde runs WeCare Pharmacies, a chain of 7 pharmacies and beauty clinics across Ireland. Lorcan O'Neill is an entrepreneur/property investor, based in Leinster. And after you have heard their tales, who would you be inclined to believe?
WeCare Pharmacies,
Web: www.wecare.ie/index.php?p=3
Lorcan O'Neill, No contact details
The lobby of The Dupont in Washington
FORGET AC/DC, THIS IS DC/DC
The Doyle Collection is the new name for what was the Jury Doyle Hotel group. Susanne Lynch went to see how they were doing in the new economic climate. She met CEO, Bill Walsh, in the newly refurbished Dupont Hotel in Washington DC, one of the 3 Doyle Collection Hotels in the US capital. Surprisingly, their attitude is that the recession is good for them, allowing time for refurbishment and the "guilt" of being seen to pay obscene amounts to stay in 7 Star hotels is giving them business.
The Dupont Hotel,
Washington D.C. 20036, USA
Tel: +1 (202) 483 6000,
Email: dupont@doylecollection.com
Web: www.doylecollection.com
EXAMINERSHIP - CORK NEWSPAPER BUYS BOAT?
No, it's a legal term for what happens when a company's debts overwhelm it, but it is not the only thing that can happen when a company goes bust or closes down in face of debts. There is also receivership, administration and liquidation for companies and for individuals you just go bankrupt. Lawyer Graham Kenny, is an examinership expert and a partner in Lyons Kenny Solicitors and knows a thing about it all. He also learnt the piano from scratch to recital stage in just two years and boxes every day.
Kenny Lyons Solicitors,
57 Fitzwilliam Square,
Dublin 2
Tel: 01 643270
Email; info@lyonskenny.ie
Web: www.lyonskenny.ie
For detailed information Kenny Lyons also have www.examinership.ie
TIME FOR MATTRESS GUARANTEE SCHEME?
Where is your money safe?
In the bank? Ask the Icelandic public about that!
In the mattress? Did you see that story during the week about the mattress full of cash going in the skip?
A safe? Well, Brian Lahart for BeSafe, a Kildare based security company, takes Richie Beirne on an Ocean's Eleven style review of home security for your cash and valuables.
Brian Lahart
BeSAFE Security Ltd
Maynooth Business Park
Maynooth
Co. Kildare.
Tel 01 505 4421
Email: brian@besafeireland.com
Web: www.besafeireland.com
Lego Safe- marginally more secure than Irish bank?
O'DRYER - JUST LOAD OF HOT AIR?
Jeanette & Martin O'Dwyer, the Tipperary couple behind O'Dryer, came at the start of March to meet with Mr Stira, Michael Burke. And what is O'Dryer? It is a covered clothsline so that you can do it in the rain.. dyring your clothes, that is. They knew there was a direct competitor that was featured on the Dragon's Den, but the O'DRYER is a lot cheaper. So, have Jeanette & Martin listened to the common sense advice from Michael, did they act on it, did it work and does Michael rate their approach to date?
Jeanette & Martin O'Dwyer
Marlhill
New Inn
Cashel
Co. Tipperary
Tel: 051 347 030 /086 344 1039
Email: sales@odryer.ie
Web: www.odryer.ie
Michael Burke
Stira Folding Attic Stairs Ltd.
Dunmore
Co Galway
Tel: 1850 639 639
Web: www.stira.ie
The O'Dryer in action.
#Programme 38: 7 June 2009
EVER TRIED TO GO RAILING FROM ENNIS AS FAR AS.
Limerick is to be connected directly by rail to Galway with the line from Ennis to Athenry due to be opened in the Autumn. Dave O'Connell took the brief trip to Gort, where they have almost completed the refurbishment of the station in readiness for the arrival of the first train in nearly 30 years. There he met Myles Mc Hugh who is the Service Planning Manager of Iarnród Éireann, South and West, and is the man in charge of the multimillion Euro relaying of the 36 miles of line. He also talked to a man with a keen commercial interest in the line, Michael O' Grady, owner of the Lady Gregory Hotel in Gort.
Irish Rail Web: www.irishrail.ie/home/
Lady Gregory Hotel, Gort,
Tel: 091-632 333
Web: www.ladygregoryhotel.ie
Click here to listen to the full report on the rail line
Dave O'Connell walks the line in Gort
THE NEXT WHITE ELEPHANT LEAVES GORT STATION AT.?
So, is it all a waste of time this Western Rail Corridor? A multimillion Euro white elephant conceived when we were awash with money as a sop to the West. Chris Coughlan is chair of the Galway Chamber of Commerce Traffic and Transportation Forum and he certainly reckons it's money well spent. On the other hand, Mark Gleeson, spokesperson from lobby group Rail Users Ireland and a big supporter of railways reckons it's money spent in the wrong place.
Chris Coughlan - Galway Chamber
Web: www.galwaychamber.com
Mark Gleeson:
Tel: 086 864 2583
Web: www.railusers.ie
The rail line as it is today
A WORD IN YOUR (ENGIN)EER
Chris Horn Is president of Engineers Ireland, but is best known as the former head and one of the founders of Irish mega software company, Iona Technologies. Iona was one of the early companies "hived" off from university research departments in Ireland to become a global software player. Chris talks about moving from Academia to the "real world" and how he is now trying to sell the gospel of engineering and innovation in Ireland. Now that the nation has realised that buying and selling houses and throwing money at property developers is not the way to produce real wealth, Chris may find his missionary zeal will be listened to.
Chris is also a prolific blogger -
http://chrishornat.blogspot.com/
Engineers Ireland,
22 Clyde Road,
Ballsbridge,
Dublin 4,
Ireland
Tel: 01 665 1300
http://www.engineersireland.ie/
Click here to hear the full interview with Chris Horne
ONCE MORE INTO THE BEACH, DEAR BRODIE
We all know sandwiches and beaches don't usually go well together, so how have leisure franchise, Planet Beach, and Brodie Sweeney of O'Brien Sandwiches been getting along since we teamed them up in January.
Tallaght based, Planet Beach, run by Business partners, Donal Coade and Ray Sheerin purchased the Irish master franchise for what they say is the world's first and only Contempo Spa. Dave O'Connell talked to Brodie and Donal this week.
Donal Coade & Ray Sheehin
Plant Beach Ireland
The GlasHaus
Tallaght Cross
Dublin 24
Tel: 01-4629999
E-Mail: donal.coade@planetbeach.com
Brody Sweeney
O'Brien's Sandwich Bars
O'Briens Sandwich Bars
23 South William Street
Dublin 2
Tel: 01 472 1400
info@obriens.ie
ROY OF THE ROVERS
Last week, the Tallaght Stadium home of Shamrock Rovers was formally opened, even though the club has been playing there for a few months. Club PRO, John Byrne and Chairman Jonathon Roche filled Richie Beirne in on how they rescued the club and how the fans took over Ireland's best known soccer club. Richie sampled the noisy delights of the fans as Rovers romped to a 3-1 home victory
Shamrock Rovers,
Tallaght Stadium,
Whitestown Way,
Tallaght,
Dublin 24.
Tel: 01 460 5948
Email: info@shamrockrovers.ie.
Web: www.shamrockrovers.ie
Rovers take the pitch
ROY OF THE ROGUE TRADERS
Nick Leeson may be best known for his time as a trader with Bering's bank, but these days he lives in Galway and is the chairman of the local soccer club, Galway United. Like mosf Eircom league clubs, the onset of full professional status has led to a financial crisis for Galway United. Nick told Dave how they are dealing with it and what is the future for the smaller league clubs.
Terryland Park,
Dyke Road,
Galway,
Tel:091767336
Email: nick@galwayunitedfc.ie
Web: www.galwayunitedfc.ie
Tallaght stadium at dusk
Programme 37: 31 May 2009
CONVENTIONAL BUSINESS APPROACH
It's the big building on Dublin's docks with a what looks like a soft drink can imbedded at an angle in the front . The Convention Centre, Dublin (CCD), is a state owned €380m development, designed by Pritzker Award-winning architect Kevin Roche. Opening date is September 1, 2010, and so far they have 17 confirmed international conferences - the equivalent of 140,000 delegate days, as well as 98 "provisional" bookings - the equivalent of 450,000 delegate days- Big Business!
Nik Waight who is the Chief Executive Officer and he took John on a tour of the hugely impressive building site that is the CCD. Nick used to run the English equivalent in Birmingham, their national convention centre, so no better man to fill us in on the conference business.
The Convention Centre Dublin
Spencer Dock
North Wall Quay
Dublin 1
Ireland
Tel: 01 856 0000
Web: www.theccd.ie
The Convention Centre at night
STICK THIS MANDARIN IN YOUR EAR
Based in Cork City, In Hand Guides specialise in the marketing and development of a range of low cost, super-compact hand held digital audio devices- I think they mean mp3 players with headphones. These guys can provide a company, tourist board, museum, gift merchandiser etc with ready loaded audio in any language. Trevor Winkworth runs the business out of Cork and tells Tim Desmond how they moved from more conventional tourist and other guides to this idea. And the latest is the guide to Cork in Mandarin, the main Chinese language.
In Hand Guides.
Tel: 021-4833720
Mob: 087-2313285
E Mail: Sales@inhandguides.ie
Web: www.inhandguides.ie/
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO EXTENDED INTERVIEW WITH TREVOR WINKWORTH
BED AND BURNS
Kate Burns is the Chairwoman of the Town & Country Homes Association which is Irelands leading B&B Accommodation organisation with over 1,100 Bed and Breakfasts in town, city & countryside locations across Ireland. And business is up 20% this year against the trend, something which Kate puts down to their new website. She tells John how they have used the site and technology like Google maps to attract European visitors in increasing numbers to take the BandB route in Ireland and how this ties to what the sort of things people like about visiting Ireland; friendly authentic people full of the gab, good simple food etc. Well, they hardly come for the weather!
Town and Country Homes
Web: www.townandcountry.ie
DEN AND NOW
Deborah Meaden is the only female dragon on the current/latest BBC Series of the Dragon's Den. And in tune with this tourism based show, she told John how she worked from age of 12 in seaside amusement centres, caravan parks and camping sites, part of the Exeter-based Weststar operation run by her mother and stepfather. Along the way she has accumulated some £40m, or as she puts it "I'm getting more from my investments than any bank, I can tell you." Some of what she has learnt is in her new book, Common Sense Rules which is published this week.
One of the business's Deborah offered to invest in, as part of the Dragon's Den Series is Dublin company CUSH 'N SHADE, who patented and produce a portable combined sun shade and cushion for use on beaches, poolsides etc. For various reasons, Deborah and CUSH 'N SHADE never finalised the deal, but herself and CUSH 'N SHADE's Jamie Jenkinson, are still on good terms, so we had Jamie in Dublin to join in the chat with Deborah. For instance they are selling into Asda who have sold out their allocation of 2/3000, and Jamie told John and Deborah about their plans
Deborah Meaden's web www.deborahmeaden.com
Cush 'n Shade Ltd.
Tel:01 4907885
Web: www.cushnshade.com
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE FULL CHAT WITH DEBORAH AND JAMIE
Deborah Meaden looking suitably dragonly
CRUSIN' TO A PROFIT
Dublin Port has 83 cruise ships visiting this year. The arrival of these ships will generate a major boost of between €35 million and €55 million for the local economy, as the 83 cruise ships carry in excess of 75,000 passengers and crew. Michael Sheary is the Chief Financial Officer of the Dublin Port Company and he tells John how this expansion in cruising is making up for any downturn in cargo and ferry traffic. John intercepted some of the passengers from the Seven Seas Voyager, a 700 passenger super luxury liner, which had just docked. The US tourists were on the way back from a day in Dublin and we wanted to find out what they thought of Ireland.
Dulbin Port Company,
Port Centre,
Alexandra Road, Dublin 1
Tel: 01 8876000
Email: info@dublinport.ie
www.dublinport.ie
DESTINATION UNKNOWN
Travels with a twist. You got the money but don't know where to go?
Well then 'Mystery trips' will sort it all out for you. Just give them your budget and a list of where or what you won't do and let them figure out the rest. Richie Beirne caught up with McCanns who took up the challenge and had a ball.. Where did they go? How much did it cost for what they said was the trip of a lifetime?
Tel: 087 9897610
Email: info@mysterytrips.ie
Web:www.mysterytrips.ie/
Linda McCann and Teresa Coughlan sampling the mysteries of Krakow
HOME AND AWAY
The well travelled, sun bronzed Richie Beirne ran down the comparisons between a range of holiday options in Ireland and abroad. This is a random, but illustrative selection, and is NOT a scientific survey- so please, do not shoot the messenger.
SEASIDE FAMILY - BUDGET €900
Self catering cottages Derrynane Cottages Derrynane Hotel in Caherdaniel on the Ring of Kerry.
Cottage for any week up until the 26th of June for 850 euro
From the 27th June till the 3rd of July 1200 euro
From the 4th of June to the third of July 1600 euro..
Slatterys Tralee offered;
For €1200 - a week in Lanzarotte flying out of Dublin next Thursday -2 adults plus 2 kids including transfers
MORE LUXURY END COUPLE - BUDGET €620
Kilkenny special offer at 5 star Lyrath Estate Hotel & Spa - Pamper Me weekend for 2
2 nights Bed and Breakfast in luxurious surroundings with two treatments each. 60 min facial /30 min back neck ,shoulder massage /alpine foot treatment etc
€620
Madrid next weekend with Aerlingus on special deals
€297 for two return.
Two nights 4 star Barcelo Aranjuez, Plaza de la Unesco, Madrid - special spa offer at the hotel.. .. 2 nights in a deluxe room with complete access to the spa, the hydro baths and swimming pool
€206 booked online - total €503
CITY BREAKCOUPLE- Budget €189
Dublin - Mount Herbert Hotel 3 Star by Landsdowne Road
2 nights B and B with one evening meal only for two people
€189
Special advance deal room only no breakfast no evening meal
€58.75 per night
Sinead Gillet of Mystery Trips offered;
August -flights for 2 with two nights 3 star accommodation with breakfast in Brussels, Madrid, Paris, Eindhoven or Edinburgh.
€189
Programme 36: 24 May 2009
HOW GREEN WAS OUR SILICON VALLEY?
Last July John visited Stanford University, in Silicon Valley, California, to see the 30 Irish CEOs who were participating in Enterprise Ireland's Leadership 4 Growth Programme at the University's Graduate School of Business. John invited back 4 of the class of '08 from, to see how their businesses are going a year on. In addition we asked the whole class to review where they are now and give us one ( or more) change(s) government could make immediately to protect or grow jobs. The summary of that little survey is below and makes intereting reading.
The 4 who represented the Stanford Class of '08 were;
. PADDY HOLOHAN, NEWBAY
. HELEN RYAN, CREGANNA
. HOWARD BEGGS, HELIX HEALTH
. JOHN COLLINS, PEROT SYSTEMS
The survey of the class showed the following
23 responses in total
Profits:
12 said more profitable [52%]
6 said less profitable [26%]
5 said no change [22%]
Employee numbers:
13 said more employees [56%]
5 said fewer employees [22%]
5 said no change [22%]
Optimistic?
14 said they were optimistic that the business environment would improve for their business in the next 12 months [61%]
8 said they weren't optimistic [35%]
1 was undecided [4%]
GOVERNMENT'S MUST DO LIST. CLICK HERE TO SEE WHAT THE CLASS RECKON NEEDS TO BE DONE
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE FULL VERSION OF THE INTERVIEW
Newbay:
NewBay provides software such as NewBay LifeCache, which manage content ( pics, music, video) on mobile devices ( phones, pda's etc) using mainly the 3g networks. In other words they make it easier to get and swap large items over mobile networks. Customers include T-Mobile (USA and International), Telefonica 02, Alltel Wireless, Vodafone, Orange, France Telecom, Swisscom, U.S. Cellular, SETAR NV in Aruba and Maxis in Malaysia.
The Academy
42 Pearse Street
Dublin 2
Ireland
Tel: 01 635 0700
Email:info@newbay.com
Website: www.newbay.com
Creganna:
Creganna assist medical device and life science companies get products from concept to production. Their specialty is the area of minimally and less invasive therapies. For instance inserting catheters and specialty needle applications all involve sticking holes in patients, which carries all kinds of risks and potential pain, and Crannagh help to make these systems for delivering relief, medicines etc., work with minimal negative effect on patients.
Parkmore West,
Galway, Ireland
Tel: +353 (0)91 757801
Email: sales@creganna.com
Website: www.creganna.com
Helix Health:
Helix Health makes software for primary healthcare systems; pharmacies, local doctors, etc. The company was formed in 2007 as a result of a merger between Systems Solutions Limited (leading provider of pharmacy management software) and Medicom Medical Computer Solutions Limited (market leader in general practice systems), creating the largest indigenous healthcare IT provider in Ireland.
52 Broomhill Road,
Dublin 24,
Ireland.
Tel: 01 463 3000
Email: info@helixhealth.com
Website: www.helixhealth.com
Perot Systems:
Part of Texan billionaire Ross Perot's empire, Perot Systems started in Ireland in 1997, providing cost control software and technology to businesses In May 2008, to enhance its expanding worldwide IT services, Perot Systems acquired the Irish company Original Solutions Limited. Integrating the Original Solutions team into the company widened the portfolio of services and capabilities in the Irish and EMEA markets by providing applications development and IT service management solutions for clients.
Persys TSI (Ireland) Ltd.
13 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2
Tel: 01 2300362
Email: ireland@ps.net
Website: www.perotsystems.ie
HAWAII 5-0
Forget that life begins at 50 stuff- the truth is that business begins at 50. On Saturday, Richie Beirne turned up for a special day in DIT Aungier Street, Dublin aimed at getting over 50's to start up businesses. The Institute for Minority Entrepreneurship (DIT) are developing a tailored programme for people aged 50 Plus who have been made redundant and who are interested in starting their own business. So Richie found out about finance, legal stuff, writing business plans and how the over 50's are taking to all this brave new world. Companies like Byrne&McCall advised on accounting, Snap Printing on presentation of material etc.
Institute for Minority Entrepreneurship
Dublin Institute of Technology Aungier Street,
Dublin 2
Tel: 01 402 7103
Email info@ime.ie
Web;www.ime.ie
MORE CELTIC TIGER FICTION, LIKE "SOFT LANDING"?
Elaine O'Hora is the successful young business woman behind the Munchies restaurant franchise, and somebody who has ridden the Celtic Tiger's ups and downs and survived. So no better woman to talk about a piece of Tiger fiction. No. no, not "Soft Landing", "House prices will rise forever", "the banks are not over exposed to property" or such familiar pieces of fiction, we mean a book based on that long gone era. The Greying of Catser Murphy by Brian Clarke is the story of Paul Murphy a HR executive working for a large American Pharmaceutical Company based in Dublin. Paul is directed by the 'fat cats' in the US to 'hatchet ' the staff levels in their Dublin base by 200 people, not because the company is loosing money but because of the corporate greed of the US chief executive Mr Mooney. And guess what? Things do not go all that well!
Munchies Dining Limited
Eastpoint Business Park
Alfie Byrne Road Dublin 3
Ireland
Tel: 01 613 7707
Email: info@munchies.ie
Web: www.munchies.ie
The Greying of Catser Murphy is published by Ashfield Press,Co Dublin
Tel: 01 2889808
GOLF BETWEEN FANTASY AND REALITY?
Back in February Golf Voucher Shop owner Leo Hassett was in the early days of his business so we teamed him with Ted Dwyer, the latest in the line of one of Cork's Merchant Prince families, to act as a mentor.
The Dwyer family founded the famous and much lamented Sunbeam Wolsey business, and what's more Ronan O'Gara is married to one of the Dwyers.
Leo's business is based on the 210,000 members of golf clubs in Ireland buying a golf gift for a friend or loved one. This is the first on air reunion of the pair, so how has Leo been doing, has Ted given him any useful advice, and did he act on it?
The Golf Voucher Shop
Clogheen
Clonakilty
Co. Cork
Tel: 087 8590570
Email: leo@golfvouchershop.ie
Web: www.golfvouchershop.ie
Ted Dwyer
City Life Wealth Advisors
Nore House
Bessboro Road
Blackrock
Cork
Tel: 021 4358533
Email: info@citylife.ie
Web: www.citylife.ie
PAY UP OR . I'LL HOLD MY BREATH!
Last week, Cavan businessman Owen Smyth told us about the lengths he is willing to go, to get debtors to pay up. Needless to say, this excited many of you who have had similar problems. This week John is talking to Declan Black, a lawyer who is Head of Litigation and Insolvency at the firm ofMason Hayes & Curran. Declan attempts to explain what is insolvency, receivership, liquidation, creditors, what your rights are over debtors and as much of that as he can realistically cover in the time he has.
South Bank House,
Barrow Street,
Dublin 4, Ireland.
Tel: 01 614 5000
Email: mail@mhc.ie
Web: www.mhc.ie/our-people/1/11/
DOLE AGUS CRAIC
On last week's show we asked the rather crude question as to whether the dole is too high. The 70% of the population not on the dole of course said it was, but really the question is how does the dole relate to employment and how can we better use that money to save or generate jobs. So how do they deal with this in other countries. So as a case study we asked 2 Irish people running businesses abroad.
Declan O' Sullivan is a native of Tralee and runs Kerry Consulting, a recruitment Company in Singapore.
Wexford born Frances Kelly has worked since the late eighties in Germany and is a consultant with recruitment company Signium international ,based in Düsseldorf.
Kerry Consulting Pte Ltd
6 Temasek Boulevard
#20-06 Suntec Tower 4
Singapore 038986
Web:hr@kerryconsulting.com
www.kerryconsulting.com
Signium International ,
Konigsallee 58a
D-40212 Dusseldorf Germany
Web; www.signium.de
Programme 35: 17 May 2009
TEXT POLL - We asked - should the Government reduce the level of the dole? Of the just over 1.500 votes; 76% said YES - 24% said NO
HOW WOULD YOU LIKE YOUR EGG PUNS, FRIED OR SCRAMBLED?
Patrick Muckian runs a very successful egg business in Co. Louth. Fed up with people calling to the farm and disturbing him or not being able to buy eggs when he wasn't there, he came with an idea to make sure you could get your half dozen fresh eggs 24/7.. The Eggspress! A standalone egg vending machine, you put in your money and you get your eggs. And Patrick was so impressed with the way it works that he is selling the Eggspress to lots of others in the egg business
Eggspress Ireland ltd,
Stonefield House,
Kilcurry,
Dundalk,
Co. Louth,
Tel: 042 933 4849
Mobile: 0872590724
Email: info@eggspress.ie
Web : www.eggspress.ie
HIGHWAY TO HELL
Peter Malone is Chairman of National Roads Authority (NRA), the body in charge of the national road system in Ireland. The former chief executive of Jurys Doyle, for over some 11 years, Peter Malone is regarded as one of the most effective chairs of so-called quango's and has escaped mention in the lists of quangos to be culled. John Murray went for a spin round to Peter to see what is happening on the national road system now the recession has chewed at the budgets.
The National Roads Authority
St. Martin's House,
Waterloo Road,
Dublin 4,
Ireland Telephone: +353 1 6602511
Fax: +353 1 6680009
Email: info@nra.ie
YOU'D WANT A SENSE OF HUMOUR TO WORK HERE
Aside from the usual " a bunch of clowns/Disney characters/ 3 Stooges would run this bank better than you lot", what is the role of comedy in business?
Aidan Killian is a stand up comedian, but in his previous life he worked as a senior banker with Bear Sterns. In addition to his stand up he runs youhavetolaugh.ie, and they run courses in speaking, presentation, improvisation and those performance and comedic skills that would be useful in business. Aidan is also compering a special cancer charity show this week (http://www.cancer.ie/action/ for information).Roger Edward Jones is a London based business speaker, executive coach and author of What Can Chie Executives Learn From Stand-Up Comedians? Robert joins the show live from London.
AIDAN KILLIAN
Tel: 086 077 4119
Web: www.aidankillian.com /www.youhavetolaugh.ie
ROBERT EDWARD JONES
www.RogerEdwardJones.com
I CAN SEE THE RECESSION CLEARLY NOW
Mona McGarrry is an optometrist and during her work she has noted how depressed many of her patients are. So she has organised a public forum to be held this coming Thursday in Dublin, and Mona is inviting you to come along with your ideas on how we come up with new jobs. Among the guest speakers is Eddie Hobbs, who needs little introduction, and Eddie tells us why he is joining this free open forum
For the forum-Tel: 01 6686818 or send your ideas to creativeaction@gmail.com
Eddie Hobbs - Web www.eddiehobbs.com
SHAMEN IN CAVAN OR IS THAT SHAME 'EM ?
Cavan man, Owen Smyth, runs C and S Timber Importers. He is mad and he is not going to take it any more.. Take what? People not paying their bills, that's what. So he has adopted a policy of naming and shaming those who owe the company money. And the €50,000 question.. does it work?
C AND S TIMBER IMPORTERS LTD
College st ,Cavan Town
County Cavan
Tel: 049 4372055
Email: cstimber@eircom.net
Web: www.cstimber.ie
Programme 34: 10 May 2009
EUROVISION AND INVESTMENT TO GO EAST?
The "new" Europeans, those in the old Eastern Bloc, are throwing incentives at foreign companies. Check out this particular ad for Macedonia, which has been on satellite and other stations all over Europe. Ireland was traditionally the masters of foreign direct investment and the dark arts of incentives, and the IDA was the route for all this. Barry O'Leary is Chief Exec of IDA and he tells John how they are dealing with the new reality of cheaper labour and better incentives in the East
Head Office
IDA Ireland
Wilton Place
Dublin 2
Ireland Tel: + 353 1 603 4000
Fax: + 353 1 603 4040
Email: idaireland@ida.ie
Website: www.idaireland.com
HER (AND HIM) OUTDOORS
In January we teamed up mentor and tailor to the stars, Louis Copeland, with Des Mulvihill and Aine Mc Cabe who run the Outdoor Store in Mullingar, a new retailer specialising in .. outdoor clothing, surprisingly enough. And sure enough, they are not only still on talking terms but Louis is enthusiastically plying them with good advice. Des, Aine, Louis (and baby Brian) joined John to recap what they have all been doing since January in the teeth of a huge recession in retailing.
Outdoor Sports Mullingar
Unit 3 No.12,
Zone B,
Mullingar Business Park,
Mullingar,
Co. Westmeath.
Tel; 044 93 33572 / 087 9740671
Email : des@outdoorsports.ie
Website;www.outdoorsports.ie/
Louis Copeland
39-41 Capel Street
Dublin 1
Tel: 01 872 1600
e-mail: louis@louiscopeland.ie
Website www.louiscopeland.com
John Murray with Brian of The Outdoor Store- spot the one who is teething!
YOUNG PEOPLE OF IRELAND, I INVEST IN YOU
5TH year school students, Michelle Coakley and Jade Kearney, are just back from accepting an entrepreneur award at the 2009 Global Young Entrepreneur of The Year Awards in New York, as you heard a few weeks back. NFTE (The National Foundation for Teaching of Entrepreneurship) were behind their trip to the Big Apple and they held their national awards at the Helix in DCU recently. So we asked Michelle and Jade ( Aka Misky-K Productions) to make their own report of the whole day.
Mishy-K Productions
mishykpro@hotmail.com
NFTE IrelandInvent, Dublin City University
Glasnevin
Dublin 9
Ireland
Tel: 01 700 7439
Web:www.nfte.ie
To hear the full NFTE report Click here
IS IT A BIRD? IS IT A SENATOR? NO, IT'S SUPER-QUINN!
Independent Senator, Feargal Quinn, came to talk to John about the state of supermarkets, something he is still interested in, but mostly about his idea for local currencies to encourage support of local businesses. The founder of Superquinn sold it in 2005 for a reported 420 Million. Fergal has also been Chair of An Post, launched The National Lottery and is now President of the EU-Wide lobby group, Eurocommerce.
Feargal Quinn Independent Senator
Tel:(01) 618 3410
Email:feargal.quinn@oireacht.ie
Web:/www.feargalquinn.ie
CAROLINA ON MY WALLET
In the Pittsboro area of North Carolina, USA, the Local Currency is called 'The Plenty'. The woman who runs the currency project there is Melissa Frey and she took a phone call to explain how it works
http://theplenty.org/
FAT CELTIC TIGERS TO GET CRASH DIET
Galway man Alan Brett is one of the senior people in Manifest who specialise in managing voting and corporate issues in public companies on behalf of institutional investors, who cannot be in several countries/places at the same time but need to make their views felt as major shareholders at General Meetings. Being Irish, Alan is looking after their clients interests in 4 major Irish companies where they are seeiking to rein in pay for directors and senior management. He explains how it works and how they intend to force good corporate governance on those companies who are not already doing the business.
Manifest 9 Freebournes Court
Newland Street
Witham, Essex
CM8 2BL England
Telephone: +44 (0)1376 503500
Fax: +44 (0)1376 503550
E-mail: info@manifest.co.uk
To hear the full interview with Alan Brettt Click here
CELTIC TIGER, HIDDEN CONSULTANT
Eddie Shanahan, the former marketing director of Arnotts, is a fashion consultant these days. Needless to say he knows a little about retailing and fashion. John Murray took him to the monument to the Celtic Tiger, the Temple of Mammon in Ireland, the Dundrum Town Centre to see if the phoenix of decent customer service has risen from the tiger's ashes. The pair donned their wigs and false moustaches in their undercover bid to find the answer to the question .. is the customer ever right in 21st Century Ireland.
Eddie Shanahan
Tel: 018010929
Email: edmundshanahan@eirrcom.net
To hear the full undercover report with John and Eddie click here
Programme 33 : 03 May 2009
RECOVERY - WE LUV IT!
Ciarán mac an Bhaird lectures in Business and Management and is Chair of the undergraduate degree programmes at Fiontar, Dublin City University and his particular research interest is the SME sector. Fiontar carries out teaching and research activities through the medium of Irish in a range of areas: business, management, communications, information technology and the Irish language (language and society).
http://www.dcu.ie/fiontar/biographies/macanbhc.shtml
IF THE PLANT FITZ
Pat Fitzgerald runs the family business, FitzGerald Nurseries, with a staff of around 35. He showed John how they have developed a unique range of plants suitable for all year round colour in small garden spaces, planters and containers. They also supply young plants to plant growers in 15 different countries. A growing part of the operation involves the micro propagation laboratory in Wexford where they carry out production research, their own breeding and new variety development program as well as production of their own varieties of plants. The nursery holds patents to several new varieities which they expect to produce a major part of their income in the future.
Fitzgerald Nurseries,
Oldtown, Stoneyford, Co. Kilkenny, Republic of Ireland
Tel: 056 7728418
Email: sales@fitzgerald-nurseries.com
http://fitzgerald-nurseries.com
To listen to a longer version Pat talking to John click here
EMPLOYMENT WHITE SPOT
2 months back, Richie Byrne talked to and desribed the situation of 4 "jobseekers", 1 homeless man, 1 Electrician, 1 office administrator and a former sales Exec.. Progress- well sort of - Rachel ( our administrator ) is on a payroll refresher course, Mark ( electrician) was offered a job but his employer went out of business, Alan ( our homeless man) has been given a part time retail job and Erik ( sales exec) is running in the local elections. Richie tells the full story to date.
FAILTE TOWERS
In the week that Failte Ireland published the 2008 visitor survey on Ireland, they also held their annual Trade Fair for foreign travel contractors to meet the Irish tourism business face to face. John went along to see what the fuss was about, to see this "speed dating" tourism session in action, to find out what the overseas tourism businesses think of Ireland, and to have a few words with Failte Ireland's CEO, Sean Quinn.
Email:info@failteireland.ie
Web:www.failteireland.ie
BERBER CUTS WEALTH
Dublin Born Businessman Philip Berber sold his online day trading company CyberCorp for a quarter of a billion euro back in the year 2000 at the height of the dot com boom. Rather then stashing away his fortune, he and his wife Donna set up The Glimmer of Hope Foundation which aims to give much of it away. Philip told John how their involvement in philanthropy began and how good it feels to give it away.
A Glimmer of Hope Foundation
3600 N. Capital of Texas Hwy.
Bldg. B, Suite 330
Austin TX 78746
Donor enquiries:eric@aglimmerofhope.org
To listen to a longer version of Philip Berber's talk with John click here
CHUCK US SOME MONEY
Atlantic Philanthropies is the charitable foundation set up by Irish American Billionaire, Chuck Feeney'. It has donated over $1bn to Irish social, educational and artistic projects over the past decade. Colin McCrea is the Irish Vice President of Atlantic Philanthropies, based in the Dublin office and he oversees their global Population Health Programme as well as the global Reconciliation & Human Rights Programme. In this role he is Atlantic's liaison with senior government officials in the North and South of Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. RTE 1 puts out Secret Billionaire: The Chuck Feeney Story' next Tuesday at ten past ten.
The Atlantic Philanthropies,
Tara House, 32 Lower Baggot Street
Dublin 2,
Tel: 01 676 2121
Email: m.dorgan@atlanticphilanthropies.org
Web: www.atlanticphilanthropies.org
VAN MAN, TO BE SUIR!
Paul Fahy of Hanly Controls in Clonmel was this week's victim of John Murray's driveby call. If John is a van chaser, then Paul is a crane chaser, cos they literally used to call in on spec to building sites as part of their business. And that business started in 1981 in Gortnafleur, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. Hanly Controls deal in hydraulics and high pressure air systems providing measurement and control instrumentation, mechanical valves and pipe fittings. They also have a manufacturing section producing metering units, pipe assemblies, air distribution manifolds and specialist control panels, for construction and manufacturing
Hanley Controls Clonmel,
Gortnafleur
Clonmel
Co. Tipperary
Ireland
Tel: 052 22722
Email: info@hccl.ie
Web :www.hanleycontrols.com/clonmel2/
PREDICTION - BY EVANS!
Dylan Evans is a behavioural research scientist in the School of Medicine at University College Cork. His latest research involves the use of prediction markets to give a more accurate evaluation of trends and spending requirements in public health.
Dr Dylan Evans
Lecturer in Behavioural Science
School of Medicine
University College Cork
Cork
Ireland
Web: www.dylan.org.uk
ONE FLU OVER THE PIGGIES NEST?
They say timing is everything and in the case of Shane Mooney, Director of SPeco Services, it is certainly true.. Galway based Speco advise a wide range of companies on environmental, heath and safety organisation with experience in providing pandemic planning and how to prepare for the unexpected, and they are to run a series of seminars next week on Pandemic Management for Business.. And as the WHO reckons a pandemic of so called Swine Flu or more correctly strain N1H1 is imminent, Shane seems to the be in the right place at the right time.
Shane Mooney
Speco Services Ltd.
Ballinacreg
Oranmore
Co. Galway
Tel 091 739560
Mobile 086 8390231
Email: swineflu@ireland.com
Web: www.speco.ie/
INSPECT-OUR GADGETS
Our very own gadget expert Andrew Deegan from Breakout Gaming Concepts came to see us with the latest batch of hi-tech toys. Quite likely, most of this will not come top of your discretionary spend list, and, unless you are very sad, will definitely not be on the essential list. So Andrew introduced us to ;
Camera & Mp3 Sunglasses - you can take pictures with your shades and listen to music at the same time! Check them out at
Bcool in the Dundrum Town Centre.
Unit 32
The Gallery
Dundrum Town Centre
Dundrum
Dublin 16
Ph: 01 207 9800
Web: www.bcool.ie
Pedaling USB Exercising Mouse- Yes, it is a USB Mouse that pedals when you type - the faster you type, the quicker he pedals and he also keeps a record of your daily word count! Or try the Sonic Bomb Alarm Clock which guarantees to get you up in the morning- perfect for anyone affected by hearing loss, In addition to a super-loud ring it also features an attachment that fits underneath your mattress to gently shake the bed too!
Check both of these out at
Web; http://www.gifts.ie
Programme 32 : 26 April 2009
HAVE PHONE WILL TRAVEL
John went on the road again, chasing men ( and possibly women) in white vans. This time the unsuspecting victim is Dublin Northside painter and decorator, John Toal. So how is business for a contractor in the building trade?
John Toal Painting & Decorating,
177 Collinswood,
Beaumont, Dublin 9
Tel: 01 8376260 | 0872362006
OIL BE BACK
David J. O'Reilly is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Chevron Corporation, and a native of Dublin, graduating in chemical engineering in 1968 from UCD. Chevron is the 4th largest non governmental energy company in the world - EXXON, SHELL and BP are bigger- with revenues of $250 Billon approx. You probably know its brand names like Texaco better than Chevron. David was in town during April at the invitation of Engineers Ireland to give the annual McLaughlin Lecture. John took the opportunity to talk to what is probably the biggest cheese in the corporate world ever to come out of Ireland, and he had some really sharp insights into what is going on, and the view from the top of "Big Oil" goes a very long way.
Chevron
6001 Bollinger Canyon Road
San Ramon, CA 94583, USA
Tel: +1 925.842.1000
Web:www.chevron.com
Engineers Ireland
Web: www.engineersireland.ie
to listen to the full interview with David O'Reilly click here
ET TU ARBUTUS
For many years, Declan Ryan ran the Arbutus Lodge in Cork, at the time the only restaurant in Ireland with 2 Michelin stars. Having moved of the restaurant business, he started making bread in 1999 in a small two car garage in front of his house, holding on the Arbutus name. . The first customers were Isobel Sheridan of On the Pigs Back in Cork's English Market and the brother Micheal, from Isaacs Restaraunt in Macurtain Street in Cork City.
There are now five fulltime bakers, three of whom have been there since the days of the two car garage, and representing Ireland, Belarus, Latvia, Turkey and Poland. Odaios Foods handle national distribution.
Declan now has a soda bread mix on the market. Bord Bia shipped 1 ½ tonnes of 'Granny Ryan's soda bread mix' to last year's Slow food festival in Turin, it went down a treat. The West Cork soda cake, made with the addition of Macroom oatmeal, is one of his most popular products and Tim Desmond has been put to work to make a loaf using Declan's patent mix - and he has to do it from start to finish while the programme is on air.
Ryan's Arbutus Bread
Unit 2B,
Mayfield Industrial Estate,
Mayfield, Cork.
Email: info@ arbutusbread.com
Web:www.arbutusbread.com/
WALKING BACK TO HAPPINESS
Every day at 11, a little group assembles in Dublin's Phoenix Park. At one time these former advertising folks sold us the products of the Celtic Tiger, now the only tigers they see are the ones they walk past in the Zoo. Having lost their jobs, this gang of mates decided that sitting on their backsides getting depressed was no help to anyone so they formed a little club to go walking, now they have introduced Tai Chi to the menu. Or as they put it "Every Day is a Saturday is a small non-profit group for people that have been made
redundant who want to stay positive and chisel their butts at the same time"
Email: totallysacked@gmail.com
Web:www.EveryDayIsaSaturday.info
Twitter group@totallysacked
A MAN WITH LODZ TO SAY
Zbyszek Zalinski comes from Lodz in Poland, works and studies in Ireland, spent some time in Limerick. The second Limerick connection is that those Dell jobs have gone to Lodz
So we sent him on a "busman's holiday", which started off as close to a bus as it comes.. a Ryanair flight home. And he found a city that was once a basket case, of post industrial collapse, that is now pulling itself up by its shoelaces in the teeth of the economic downturn. And of course the city is not pronounced -LOTZ- but rather WOODGE- but that does not make for bad puns in English. Aside from Lodz, Zbyszek took in Warsaw and Wroclaw, talking to senior figures there.
Factory In Lodz
Wroclaw Opera House
Warsaw Stock Exchange
Academy of Economics in Warsaw
IT WASN'T MENTOR BE LIKE THIS
Having introduced various new businesses to people with the experience to assist their development, it is now time to revisit where we started in January. Noel Donegan has made a huge success with his Paper fx and other games and inventions and we teamed him up with Snugglerug's Clodagh Flannery. You might have seen her on the Late Late Show with John Murray shortly after that.. But things do not seem to have worked out. Will Clodagh take Noel's advice? Will Noel just throw his hat at it - find out more!
Clodagh Flannery,
Flannovations Ireland,
54 Bloomfield Drive
Athlone
Co Westmeath
Tel; 0906 479162
Email;orders@lapwrap.ie
www.lapwrap.ie
Noel Donegan
Luz Java Limited
Fax: 01 6105324
Email: noeldonegan@luzjava.com
www.luzjava.com
Programme 31 : 19 April 2009
ATHY LEG-UP?
Athy in County Kildare has not fared well in the current recession, with 2000 on the dole in a town of 8500, and one calculation is is that there is 1.7 million euro a week dripping out of the town. So, local business has decided to "get up off its ass'. Local businessman and photographer, Robert Redmond, tells us about SHOPATHY, an initiative set up less than two months ago to bring people into Athy to shop, to visit, to eat, to stay. And to put their money where their mouths is/are, they offered a prize worth €2,500 for one of you to win on the show ;Weekend away for a Family of 4 at the Carlton Abbey Hotel and Spa in Athy (value €500),family Portrait from Robert Redmond Studios (value €600), beauty Treatment (value €200) from Beauty in Comfort, Hair Styling by Zebbles (value €200), Garden Voucher (value €200) from Geraldine Garden Centre,Rug Centre Piece from MA Flinter carpets (value €200), Hair styling by Hair Affaire (Value €200), Voucher from Mirelle Interiors (Value €200)and a meal for 4 at the Bay Tree Restaurant (Value €200)
Web:www.shopathy.com
Web: www.robertredmondstudios.com/site/
HERE WE GLOW, HERE WE GLOW!
George Reynolds was with us a few weeks back but now he has "hot" news about nuclear matter in a bog! Richie Beirne joins the geophysics consultant, live by satellite from Co Carlow with a fist full of isotopes.
George Reynolds
Geophysical Consultant
Email: metrics-consult@iol.ie
POOR PADDY ON THE......BOARD OF DIRECTORS!
The Irish in England now make up a higher proportion of company directors in the UK than any other "ethnic" group, according to London based Irish communications operation, Eulogy!. Aidan Brady is the CEO and as you might expect he is Irish born. Aidan also gives an insight into how Ireland ( and the Irish) are perceived in Britain, especially at the moment. The English have always Pat-ronised the Irish, often in a friendly way but frequently in the way colonial powers treat their subjects.
The Irish make up 18% of the total number of non-British directors in the UK, more than those from Australia, India and America - which make up the second, third and fourth largest demographic - combined!
No. Country Count
1. Ireland 43,149
2. Australia 15,489
3. India 14,996
4. USA 11,509
5. Italy 10,514
6. Nigeria 10,099
7. France 9,641
8. South Africa 9,039
9. Poland 8,525
10. Germany 8,155
Eulogy!
The Heals Building,
22 Torrington Place,
London WC1E 7HJ
Tel: +4420 7927 9999
Web: www.eulogy.co.uk
WELL! BLOW ME, JOBS!
Turbotricity are makers of domestic wind turbines, and pioneers of selling surplus wind energy back to the grid. Tim Desmond tacked all the way to Bantry to talk to green guru and co-owner Quentin Gargan about his personal mission to make this a reality for anybody and how what was once the domain of "tree- huggers" is now the new business reality.
Turbotricity Ltd.
Moylagh,
Oldcastle,
Co. Meath
Phone within Ireland Lo-Call 076 6152052
Overseas call +353 57 860 0054
S.W. Office:
Coomanore North,
Bantry, Co. Cork.
Tel: 027 30053
Email;info@turbotricity.com
Web: http://turbotricity.com
For a longer version of the interview with Quentin click here
CAMELS IN CAVAN- NOT LIKELY?
Ireland could be to wind energy what Saudi Arabia is to oil! So says Cavan-born scientist, Professor Michael McElroy, one of the leading global thinkers on green energy. The Gilbert Butler Professor of Enironmental Studies in Harvard left Ireland in his twenties to work on US space missions to other planets - including the first landing on Mars! These days he's been advising Al Gore, and anybody who cares to listen that the future is green. ( To listen to a longer version of the interview click here; for podcast of the 20 minute full interview click here
Web: www.seas.harvard.edu/ourfaculty/profile/Michael_McElroy
FROM A WISPA TO A SCREAM
Gorilla's replacing Phil Collins, those kids with the eyebrows, the relaunch of Wispa. Cadbury's have cast off their staid image and have embraced "viral marketing", "social networking" and all those jargon heavy internet based stuff.. And by gum, it works! Tony Bilsborough is Head of UK Media Relations at Cadbury Schweppes and he told John how chocolate is now cool with the Bebo generation.
Tony Bilsborough, Cadbury Schweppes
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Tel: +441895 615011
Contact: www.cadbury.co.uk/contact/Pages/ContactUs.aspx
Web: www.cadbury.co.uk
MORE MURRAYS, BUT NOT RELATED!
Jack Murray is the founder of Mediacontact.ie , and he tells us about some of the "viral" marketing done for companies in Ireland. While he may not be able to recruit Phil Collins in a Gorilla suit or otherwise, there is lots going on here that is not "conventional" advertising. Find out more at the "PR, Social Networking and Blogging in Practice" conference organised by Mediacontact.ie is on April 21 in the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin, To book- email: newmedia@mediacontact.ie
Mediacontact.ie
Mobile: (087) 2256090
E-mail: jack@mediacontact.ie
Web: www.Mediacontact.ie
NFTE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT!
Michelle Coakley and Jade Kearney are 5th year students at St Domnic's Secondary School in Ballyfermot, Dublin and they are just back from New York where they were representing Ireland at the 2009 Global Young Entrepreneur of The Year Awards. They call themselves Mishy-K productions and they make handmade jewelry from recycled CD's, beads and broken bracelets, wire and chain and do it so well that they came to the attention of NFTE. The National Foundation for Teaching of Entrepreneurship is run by Foroige- who brought them to New York. NFTE Ireland was established in 2005, by entrepreneur Liavan Mallin. The organization was founded with initial funding from the One Foundation and Atlantic Philanthropies. In January 2009 NFTE Ireland entered a strategic alliance with Foróige, the leading youth development organization in Ireland.
Mishy-K Productions
mishykpro@hotmail.com
NFTE IrelandInvent, Dublin City University
Glasnevin
Dublin 9
Ireland
Tel: 01 700 7439
Web:www.nfte.ie
Jade and Michelle receive their (just) awards in New York
A sample of Mishy-K'swares
Programme 30 : 12 April 2009
LIMERICK
There was a young man named Murray,
Who went to the Midwest in a hurry,
The soul of Munster he found,
On the big pitch at Thomo(u)nd,
And the Ospreys! Sure, no worry!
SHANAHAN STOPOVER
John started his trip to the Limerick area from the west, where he met Pat Shanahan, Chairman of Shannon Airport Authority Board, at the historic airport, where transatlantic flight really started. The mandatory stop-overs are gone, Aer Lingus step out and in again, Ryanair come and go as well, so what is the future?
DAA,
Shannon Airport,
Co Clare
Tel: 061 712000
Web: www.shannonairport.com
SKINNY DIPPING!
Clare woman, Therese Dillon will skin ya! Well, if you suffer from painful skin disorders such as Eczema, Psoriasis and Dermatitis, she offers a truly amazing treatment. The Garra Rufa fish (Doctor Fish) will literally eat the painful or irritated skin. The idea originates in Turkey where in one East Anatolian spa these fish have "nibbled" with success, on the skin of psoriasis-sufferers for more than four hundred year. Therese Dillion is herself a sufferer from Psoriasis and it certainly works for her. Now, she is looking for a partner/financier/backer with the wherewithall to take the service nationwide.
Skin Therapy Ireland
An Dun, Church Road,
Raheen, Limerick,
Tel : (061) 307400
Email : info@skintherapyireland.com
Web: www.skintherapyireland.com
UL RUEL BUSINESS OK!
Professor Donal Dineen is the Dean of the Kemmy Business school in University of Limerick and Professor of Public Policy Analysis. And he does what the title says, giving John the lowdown on this week's budget, Not only that but he showed us the school's own trading room, simulating how a Stock or Commodity Exchange dealing business would work. The students gave John a run around the ( almost ) real world of market trading. Did he learn anything? Listen and find out!
University of Limerick
Tel: 061 202700
Web: www.ul.ie/
Professor Donal Dineen
Tel: 061 202095
Email: Donal.dineen@ul.ie
HOTEL THAT ALMOST BECAME NOTEL
The Castletroy Park Hotel, part of the Carlton Hotel Group, almost disappeared from the map a few months back, but it is back on its feet and thriving. Fiona O'Shea is the manager of the hotel based in Castletroy, on the outskirts of Limerick city, and she tells John what nearly happened and why it didn't. A good news tale for these times!
Castletroy Park Hotel
Limerick,
061- 335566
Web: www.castletroy-park.ie
BE-BOPP A BUSINESS
Evert Bopp, a Dutcman who has long gone native, is about to launch the GreenHouse Limerick start-up incubator from an office in the centre of Limerick. Yes, it sounds like jargon but he is sure they can make a real difference to new businesses, turn ideas into profit and anyone with a bit of drive into an entrepreneur. As John was shown around, Evert gave him the complete hairdryer-100-miles-an-hour-enthusiasm treatment. John left convinced!
Green House Limerick
C/O Evert Bopp
59-60 O'Connell Street,
Limerick
Web:www.greenhouselimerick.com/
NO ACCOUNTING FOR BUDGET
O'Hurley Blair Irwin are well established Limerick accountants and for a Mid West take on the budget for business, John talked to Colm Browne and Billy Irwin in their offices.
O'Hurley Blair Irwin
Mount Kennett House, Limerick .
Tel: 061 401122
Email: info@obi.ie
Web: www.obi.ie
THE HOLY GROUND?
With apologies to Cork, but Munster rugby fans will understand this minor heresy. John Cantwell is the Director of the spanking new 26,000 capacity stadium in the heartland of rugby in Ireland. So does it make sense to launch this in the middle of the biggest recession in the state's history? Seems so.
John Cantwell, Stadium Director,
Thomond Park Stadium,
Limerick,
Tel: 061 421100
Email:info@thomondpark.ie
Web: www.thomondpark.ie
GREEN (AND ALL THE OTHER COLOURS) PRINTING
Moyross is maybe not where you would imagine Ireland's green printing revolution would start but Changing Ireland has won awards and plaudits for pioneering low carbon, low environmental impact printing. Allen Meagher is editor and Tim Hourigan is administrator of the magazine and print operation and they bring John up to date on what print can do to make the world safer for all of us, and how they put most of the magazines in Ireland to shame.
'Changing Ireland', Unit 3,
Sarsfield Business Centre,
Moyross, Limerick
Tel.: 061-458011 (editor) and 061-458090 (administrator)
Editor's e-mail: editor@changingireland.ie
Administrator's e-mail: admin@changingireland.ie
Web: www.changingireland.ie/
MOYROSS STITCH UP
2 doors down from Changing Ireland is dressmaker Tina Cronin, a young woman who is making a go of a business. An early school leaver, Tina started doing alterations, found she had a talent for this and now makes dresses. A tough time to start a business by yourself but she tells John she is determined to make it work.
Tina Cronin, Dressmaker,
Unit 5,
Sarsfield Business Centre,
Moyross,
Limerick.
Programme 29: 5 April 2009
TAKE YOUR PIC OF MENTORS
Kerry entrepreneur, Jerry Kennelly was frounder & former CEO of Stockbyte and Stockdisc, who provided photo libraries to all sorts of businesses.. In 2006 Jerry sold the lot Getty Images for over €110 Million.. These days he is doing his bit to support new enterprise and young entrepreneurs in Kerry and nationwide with the Young Entrepreneur Programme . So we asked him to stretch out to help Dublin photographer, Tara Keane, who has her own business, Keane Eye Photography, which she wants to develop.
Young Entrepreneur Programme: www.youngentrepreneur.ie
Email:jerryk@youngentrepreneur.ie
Keane Eye Photography- www.keaneeyephotography.com
Keane eye for business ? One of Tara's pics
COLD CALLERS ARE SECURITY RISK!
The latest "man the van" to get the Murray Mobile treatment is Peter Tyrrell, the managing director of Ace Engineering. He was good enough to take John's cold call in his van, and not only was he happy to talk to John, but he took them along to the Security Manufacturers and Distributors annual trade event, which he was heading for. While John was there he talked to Paul Tattersall, who is Chairman of the Security Manufacturers and Distributors Association and of his company Power-Plex, and Paul Hennessy MD of Northwood Technology. And in these straitened times, security is becoming ever more important for anybody in business.
Peter Tyrrell- Ace Engineering,
83 Gratton Lodge,
Donaghmede,
Dublin 13,
Tel :01 8771252
Mobile: 086 3815633 -
Email: info@aceengineering.ie
Web: http://aceengineering.ie
Security Manufacturers and Distributors Association
Unit 17, Finglas Business Centre,
Jamestown Road,
Finglas,
Dublin 11
Tel: 01 858 0960
Email: info@smda.
Web: www.smda.ie
Northwood Technology Ltd.
56 Nore Road
Dublin Industrial Estate,
Glasnevin,
Dublin 11
Tel: 01 8601880
Email: info@northwoodtechnology.ie
Web:www.northwoodtechnology.ie/
MORE THAN YOU CAN CANDLE
Mark & David Van Der Bergh run their operation, Oberg, from Enniskerry in Wicklow. Their best known product is big business. They have been making the MAX BENJAMIN 100% soy based fragranced candles since the early 90's- and they tell us that each of the fragrances is made using essential oils and have 40 hours burn time. A real under the radar (jargon alert!!!!!) Irish export success with expected candle sales this year of 50-60,000, at €18 each.. Work it out!
Max Benjamin Candles
Oberg Associates,
Glenstock,
Enniskerry,
Co. Wicklow,
Ireland.
Tel: 01-2863647
Email: info@oberg.ie
www.oberg.ie/maxbenjamin.html
BUSINESS SWEETENER
In the US, Brad Sugars is seriously big business. The world's number one business coach is a serious claim His main project, ActionCOACH, has operations in 22 countries, including here. where he visited this week, and John tracked him down.
The gospel according to Brad "I've built my company, ActionCOACH, up from nothing to now being ranked, by the USA's Entrepreneur magazine, as the 16th fastest growing franchise in the world, and 53rd of the top 500....
I started my first business when I was 15, but Colonel Harland Sanders of KFC fame was 65 when he used his $105 Social Security cheque to start his business. My story is all about turning dreams into reality"
www.bradsugars.com OR www.actioncoachireland.com
ActionCOACH Ireland: ROI - 1 800 804 004 / NI 0800 072 6641
R AND D HEAVEN
Opsona is the holy grail - a research led high value pharmaceutical company, spun off from Trinity College Dublin. Their area is autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and transplantation. And these lads and lassies are at the forefront of this work In Febraury they announced an EUR18M ($23M) financing round and the list of backers tells its own story; Novartis Venture Fund, Fountain Healthcare Partners, Inventages Venture Capital and Seroba Kernel Life Sciences. One of the main uses of the financing will be Opsona's clinical trials targeting inflammatory diseases.
Professor Luke O'Neill is one of the 3 founders of the company and is just back Canada and Brussels, but he still had time to tell us all.
Opsona Therapeutics Ltd,
The Trinity Centre for Health Sciences,
Institute of Molecular Medicine,
St James's Hospital,
Dublin 8,
Ireland
Tel: 01 896 8499
Email: info@opsona.com
WHITE COLLAR CRIMES AGAINST MUSIC?
This week the FT compiled its 'White-Collar Top Ten' songs- and we asked you to vote on the top 1 for the Business listeners
1. "Daysleeper" - REM
2. "Frankly Mr Shankly" - The Smiths
3. "The Day Before You Came" - Abba
4. "Working for the Man" - Roy Orbison
5. "Matthew and Son" - Cat Stevens
6. "Sick Day" - Fountains of Wayne
7. "I Need a Holiday" - Scouting for Girls
8. "Step Into My Office, Baby" - Belle & Sebastian
9. "Manic Monday" - the Bangles
10. "Money for Nothing" - Dire Straits.
Programme 28: 29 March 2009
CAKES! WE TUAM UP
Tuam woman, Claire Kelly left college a year ago and determined not to be driven down by the gloom and doom, she opened her own business in her home town. She reckons one thing goes all regardless of economic climes- marriage. So her shop specialises in Handmade Invitations and Wedding Cakes, and she brought one up for us to gorge
Claire Kelly
Vicar St.
Tuam
Co. Galway
Tel: 0879576400
Emai: clairekelly@live.ie
Web: www.clairekellydesigns.com
PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS AULD FELLA
Dubliner, Niall O'Loughlin is a well know caricaturist. For instance he was responsible for Brian Cowen for the Nob Nation CD, but not .. we repeat not responsible for those on the walls of the National Gallery and RHA. As caricature is so much in the news we asked him to do John Murray during the programme.. and his final masterpiece will be here on the website shortly after the end of the show
Niall O'Loughlin
The Studio
14 Rosedale
Millfarm
Dunboyne
Co. Meath
Tel:01 825 3919/087 644 2947
Web:www.nialloloughlin.com
POSITION VACANT 1 - ANYTHING!
Richie Beirne went on the hunt for 3 people looking for jobs - bit like Peter Bacon setting up a toxic bank- not that difficult at the moment. And the 3 who told their stories are
Rachel who lives in Clare, Mark Boyd from Ballymun and Eric Eblana who has just returned to Ireland.
Do you have a job for any of these.. contact us and we will put you in touch with them!
POSITION VACANT 2 - PRIME MINISTER OF LITTLE ISLAND STARTING WITH "I"
Does John Murray have the right stuff? People are so desparate for leadership that every second person who comes on the radio and manages to say 2 coherent things in a row is heralded as the next choice for Toaiseach. . And among the tools used to select candidates for any job these days are personality tests, role play games, and the like. Psychobabble? Nonsense? One of the leading figures behind this quiet revolution in recruitment is Joe Ungehma, Managing Consultant of SHL Ireland - and he wanted to find out if John Murray could be our next leader.. Relax! He doesn't want the job!
Joe Ungemah
Managing Consultant
SHL Ireland
24 Priory Hall
Stillorgan
Co. Dublin
Tel: 01 2883550
Freephone: 1800 932052
Email: info.ireland@shlgroup.com
Web:www.shl.com/shl/ie/
CV OR NOT CV, THAT IS THE QUESTION
Did you ever not tell the truth on a cv. John talks to a man who lied on his CV two-hundred times in one year. His name is George Reynolds, and we think this is correct.. His real qualifications include geophysics consultant with an MBA, having studied Geology and Geophysics in College.. So why did he lie?
George Reynolds,
Geophysical Consultant
Email: metrics-consult@iol.ie
MAN THE VAN
John just rang the number on the side of the van he was behind on the M11 in Wicklow, and met up with Wexford landscape gardner, Thomas Roe. Thomas filled him in( ha had) on how business is
Thomas Roe
Lanscape Gardener
7, St. David's Terrace
Oylegate
Co. Wexford
Tel: 053 913 8359
NOTHING SURFSEEDS LIKE SUCCESS
Co. Leitrim Chef, Tim Rooney reckons he has invented a healthy snackfood that will conquer the world. Putting his money where his snacks go, he invested a quarter of a million Euro of his own money into it, or so he told us in September. So six months later, is he still as optimistic?
Tim Rooney,
Surfseeds
The Food Hub
Carrick Road
Drumshanbo
Co. Leitrim
087 911 5500
Web:www.surfseeds.com
FLINTER SPARKS
Dan Flinter is Chairman, Governing Authority of NUI Maynooth and former CEO of Enterprise Ireland. Does this indicate a new direction by this venerable academic institution to pursue a more hand on relationship with business and industry or is it a bit of window dressing to impress those with hands on the Universities purse strings? Is Dan really the man?
Dan Flinter
Chairman of the Governing Authority
NUI Maynooth
Maynooth
Co. Kildare
01 7086000
Web:www.nuim.ie
Programme 27: 22 March 2009
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY, PETAL
No mere florist, Brian Berry is a 'Professional Floral Artiste'. Three weeks into his new business venture, Posh Petals, Brian comes into studio to tell John about his new business and to offer two Mothers' Day bouquets to our listeners.
Brian Berry
Posh Petals
43 Granville Road
Cabinteely
Dublin 18
01 275 0759
087 219 3331
brianjberry@poshpetals.ie
www.poshpetals.ie
TRANSPLANT KIDNEYS MOTIVATION?
The morning after Ireland's crunch Six Nations match against the Welsh, John asks management consultant, Pearce Flannery, what business leaders can learn from their counterparts on the pitch. Kidney, Trapattoni, Charleton, O'Sullivan. who gets it right and who gets it wrong? Pearce Flannery is MD of Pragmatica and author of Grabbing the Oyster.
Pearce Flannery
Suite 12
Floor 2
Royal Court Business Centre
Liosban
Galway
091 77 00 02
http://www.pragmatica.ie
http://www.grabbingtheoyster.com/
MOBY DICK!
AskMoby.com is an initiative of Nowcasting International Ltd. Nowcasting was set up in Co. Clare, Ireland in 1999, and has become very well established supplier of Professional Marine Forecasting services for Oil Companies such as BP, Chevron, Shell.
Nowcasting is recognised as the fastest growing company in marine forecasting worldwide. Tim Desmond went larking in the Clare air with Ask Moby's Mark White.
AskMoby
Nowcasting International Ltd
Ballymaley Business Park
Ennis
Co. Clare
065 6892250
www.askmoby.com
contact@askmoby.com
SOFT LAND(ING)?
Jim McCarthy is convinced that agricultural land is the investment of the future, but not necessarily in Ireland, where prices of €40,000 a hectare can be reached, but in Argentina, The US, Eastern Europe. So how do you run a farm 10,000 miles away? Well, Jim will fix it for you!
Agricultural Investment Managers Limited
Head office
54 John Street
Kilkenny
1890 931958
www.agriinvestments.ie
GOOGLE ME A NEW BUSINESS MODEL PLEASE
In his new book, What Would Google Do?, New York-based blogger and Guardian columnist, Jeff Jarvis, argues that the Google approach hasn't just changed the internet, but has changed the world of business and beyond. Speaking to John, he explains how traditional businesses - and even governments - can Googlise themselves.
Jeff Jarvis
www.buzzmachine.com
http://www.buzzmachine.com/what-would-google-do/
NOT EVEN TOMORROW'S CHIP WRAPPER?
In the week that we discovered two Dublin freesheets are in merger talks, McConnell's MD, Fiona Scott, predicts what the future holds for the Irish newspaper market.
Fiona Scott
McConnells Advertising
Grand Mill Quay
Barrow Street
Dublin 4
01 478 1544
www.mcconnells.ie
ARE YOU THE MERRION KIND?
There aren't many companies out there with no debt. But one Dublin based company Merrion Pharmaceuticals has announced it has an eight point one million Euro cash pile following major deals with the world leader in Diabetes Novo Nordisk. Research and Development are the buzzwords at the company which was formed in 2003 and our Reporter Richie Beirne checked out what all the fuss is about.
Merrion Pharmaceuticals, Ltd.
Biotechnology Building
Trinity College Dublin
Dublin 2
info@merrionpharma.com
01 672 9272
Programme 26: 15 March 2009
THIS SHOE IS MADE FOR TALKIN
Veronica Canning is a mentor/professional speaker, working mainly with women in business and management, who has worked with many non for profit, corporate and governmental organizations, including for the EU in assisting the equivalent of the IDA's in Bosnia/Herzogovina.
SHOES is the brand, she works under. Think sex in the city imagery - lots of pink, stilletoes, etc. On March 11 she gave a talk 100 business women in Johnstown, Co Kildare, and that session was billed as "Recessionistas Unite.. Time to put on your lethal stilettos" and held under the auspices of the South Dublin Chambers, Enterprise Board and Skillnet. Veronica thinks many other local business bodies should be doing this. And then there's Shoeisms, her packs of cards, soon to be a book..
SHOES,
19 Lr. Trees Road
Mount Merion
Co. Dublin
Tel: 01 278 1026
Email:info@veronicacanning.com
Web: www.veronicacanning.com
BRAND NEW CHART
London based Irish communications operation, Eulogy!, have just released their annual survey British consumers' favourite Irish brands in the run up to St. Patrick's Day.
Eulogy!
The Heals Building,
22 Torrington Place,
London WC1E 7HJ
Tel: +4420 7927 9999
Web: www.eulogy.co.uk
SAY IT LIKE YOU MENTOR SAY IT
Trim-based couple, Mimi and Myles Doyle, founded Mimi Toys five years ago selling wooden educational toys for children. Their product range is now available by internet and mail order catalogue, no branded toys, weapons or battery operated toys but they admit to having a very small range of plastic educational toys where wood is not appropriate. In September, they opened a shop and warehouse in Trim, Co Meath. Now the question is, what's next?
To provide answers over the coming months, we've introduced the Doyles to Ciaran Crean, Managing Director of MicksGarage.ie. Ciaran has turned a car parts retailer into one of Ireland's biggest online success stories, recently securing half a million Euro of investment to expand its UK operations.
Mimitoys, Mimifurniture & Preschool Ireland
Unit 3,
Oaktree Business Park,
Trim,
Co Meath,
Tel: 01 529 2297 or locall 1890 520 025
Web: www.mimitoys.ie
MicksGarage.ie
Unit 9
Dublin Docklands Innovation Park,
128 - 130 East Wall Road,
Dublin 3
Tel: 01-4406603
Email:info@MicksGarage.ie
Web:www.micksgarage.ie
SING IF YOU'RE GLAD TO BE GLANBIA
John Moloney is Group Managing Director of Kilkenny based agri-food giants Glanbia. Last week they announced pre-tax profits of just over €100m for last year, though this included one-off charges linked to restructuring costs and the company's exit from the pigmeat business. When these were stripped out, pre-tax profits showed an increase of almost 21% to €120.3m. In the current economic climate this is no mean achievement. Damien O'Reilly quizzed John Moloney on Glanbia's success to date, their prospects in 2009 and how they can retain jobs in such a vital industry.
Glanbia plc
Glanbia House
Kilkenny
Ireland
Tel: 056 777 2200
Email: ir@glanbia.ie
Web: www.glanbia.ie
FAIR PLAY TO FAIRWIND
Traffic on Dublin's East Link bridge was halted for several minutes to allow a three-masted tall ship sail up the Liffey. Irish company, Fair Wind Wine, had loaded the ship full of French wines, which will be sold on the Irish market as 'green wine' - because of the energy saved by using sustainable transport. Alan Torney was standing-by to greet the company's president, Frederic Albert.
Click here to download the Fair Wind Wine Press Book
In Ireland contact;
Jehan Ashmore
Tel: 01 275 1876
Email: marinesearch@gmail.com
Email:export.vins@ctmv.eu
Web: www.ctmv.eu
HURLING IDEAS IN CORK, NOT INSULTS
The Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) in Bishopstown have put their money where their mouth is. The CIT Prize for Innovation is eight years old and awards cash prizes to those whose inventions and business ideas are judged most creative, novel, innovative, and likely to succeed in the marketplace.. Tim Desmond went along to meet the innovators and entrepreneurs during Innovation Day on Friday 13th March 2009 when a team of experienced engineers, inventors and business professionals judged the work.
Innovation Day at CIT
Shane Flynn of My Caring Bear
The Prizewinners Rigi Jig
Here's the range of awards:
1st Prize and title of CIT Entrepreneur of the Year €5,000
Most Technically Innovative €2,000
Best Business Plan €1,000
Part-time student award €1,000
Best Exhibition Stand on Innovation Day €1,000
Web :www.cit.ie/aboutcit/newsandevents/name,1045,en.html
HAPPY IN YOUR NAP
Dr. Bill / William Anthony of Boston University is behind the National Workplace Napping Day, an idea that fell out of bed in 1999. And it fell last Monday, 9 March, in the US, the day after the clocks went forward for Summer Time. He's the co-author [with his wife] of The Art of Napping and The Art of Napping at Work. What he has to say is not only very funny but very sensible, if you can keep your eyes open to the end of it.
To find out more or contact Bill check out
http://www.bu.edu/cpr/about/profiles/wanthony.html
THE GREEN, AND GREEN, OF MAYO
The Westport Woods Hotel & Spa is part of the Brian McEniff Hotel Group and has been run by Michael Lennon and Joanne McEniff since 1995. Over the last five years, the 122 bedroom has implemented an ambitious environmental programme, driven by an Energy Manager and "Green Team", resulting in a 65% reduction in CO2 emissions. For instance oil heating has been replaced with Irish supplied sustainable woodchip, woodpellet and solar systems. In overall terms energy costs have remained static despite a 30-40% rise in costs. Waste going to landfill has reduced from 240 tonnes to less than 40 tonnes per annum over 5 years. Richie Beirne voyaged to Westport and Michael Lennon told him why and how they did this. (The hotel is one of the finalists in the Ulster Bank Business Achievers Award)
Westport Woods Hotel & Spa
Quay Road,
Westport,
Co. Mayo
Tel: 098 25811
Emai: info@westportwoodshotel.com
Web:www.westportwoodshotel.com
Programme 25: 8 March 2009
YOU'LL BE DELIRA WITH YOUR ODRYER
More mentoring - this time with the Clonmel-based couple, Martin and Jeanette O'Dwyer, who have come up with 'The ODryer', an all-weather outdoor clothes line. Jeanette is a teacher and Martin runs a light engineering workshop, and to advise them over the coming months, we're introducing the O'Dwyers to Michael Burke, the Galway man behind one of Ireland's household names - Stira. Stira have put the stairs into 130,000 Irish attics since their launch 27 years ago on the Late Late Show. Since then Michael has never looked back, only up! Incidentally, the Dragon's Den recently featured a similar device, but we reckon this is better and cheaper than that!
Jeanette & Martin O'Dwyer
Marlhill
New Inn
Cashel
Co. Tipperary
051 347 030
086 344 1039
sales@odryer.ie
www.odryer.ie
Michael Burke
Stira Folding Attic Stairs Ltd.
Dunmore
Co Galway
1850 639 639
www.stira.ie
ETHICAL INVESTING- CONTRADICTION IN TERMS LIKE MILITARY INTELLIGENCE?
Fr Seamus Finn is an Irish born priest, who sits on the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, based in Washington. They represent $100 billion worth of faith-based institutional investors, they ask tough questions about companies' ethical standards and they expect replies. Now that we all know where greed has landed us, maybe ethical standards are not so daft as the Celtic Tiger fanatics would have had us believe.
Fr. Seamus Finn
Justice, Peace/Integrity of Creation Office
Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate
391 Michigan Ave., NE
Washington, DC 20017-1516
USA
Tel;+1 202-269-6715
seamus@omiusa.org
www.omiusa.org
THE ODD CAPAL
With Cheltenham getting underway on Tuesday, we invited a couple of fellas in this morning who should be able to offer us a few very well-informed tips. Dubliners, Cillian Barry and Eugene Cosgrove, are the brains behind RaceCaller.com - a cross between the social networking site, Facebook, and a fantasy racing website. But it is not a betting site!
www.racecaller.com
CUTBACK IN CIVIL SERVICE?
Tim Desmond donned his false moustache and took Eleanor O'Kelly Lynch on a tour of the underbelly of customer service in Cork City. Eleanor is a well respected sales trainer, having established her company, Golden Apple Training, in 2005. The dynamic duo visited a selection of household name stores to see if the customer was always right, or at least, noticed!
Golden Apple Training,
11 Glanmire Court, Glanmire, Co. Cork
Phone: 087-2773737
Email: goldenapple@eircom.net
Programme 24: 1 March 2009
TEXT POLL - We asked the question- Should the Government increase income tax now?
Total Poll was 1,110
77% said Yes
23% said No
BEAM ME UP, MATRIX!
Husband and wife team, Conor and Deirdre McCormack of MCOR Technologies in Ardee, Co.Louth, have come up with a Star Trek like device - The Matrix 3-D printer. It makes 3-D, solid models - like wooden carvings - from A4 paper. Despite the cost (€25,000 a pop) they have sold seven since Christmas. Not unlike the "Replicator" from Star Trek, a 3D printer creates a 3D model from computer generated plans by layering and connecting successive cross sections of material. There are competitors but they work by machining blocks of material (cutting, grinding, drilling etc) and this means the 'Mcor Matrix' is up to 50 times cheaper and is the only eco-friendly option available.
Martin Murphy, the MD of Hewlett-Packard Ireland, is so impressed with this that he has agreed to act as mentor for the McCormacks. Rememeber, HP are the biggest printer makers in the world and you would expect them to be direct competitors of MCOR, but Martin will explain all that to you.
Mcor Technologies
Unit 7,
John Street Industrial Park,
Ardee,
Co Louth
Tel: 041 6858459
Email: info@mcortechnologies.com
Web: www.mcortechnologies.com
Hewlett-Packard Ireland
Liffey Park Technology Campus (LPTC)
Barnhall Road
Leixlip
Kildare, Ireland
Tel: 01 6150000
Web: http://welcome.hp.com
PURCELL-WASHES BANKERS SALARIES WHITER THAN WHITE!
Irishman John Purcell runs Purcell & Co. in London, a firm of corporate headhunters. If you mention headhunters and corporate execs these days, ritual execution might spring to mind, but John still reckons there is a need for the right people to run companies and that they should be paid accordingly. John is in Dublin this weekend to play rugby for Oxford veterans against Trinity on Saturday,and to see the rugby international. He was at the victory over England two years ago in Croke Park, which he reckons marked the high water mark of the Celtic Tiger.
Purcell and Co.,
Berkeley Square House,
Berkeley Square,
London W1J 6BD
Tel: +44 207849 6130
Email: enquiries@purcellandco.com
Web: www.purcellandco.com
FROM BREADLINE TO MAKING SERIOUS BREAD.. (MAN)
In 1987, Elaine O'Hora was an Aer Lingus hostess when her husband was declared bankrupt. "A nice middle-class family" rapidly became a very broke middle class family, the electricity was cut off, the cars repossessed, and she was left without enough money for her and three small children.
Later that year, she had the brainwave of selling sandwiches to the flocks of hungry yuppies in Dublin's office land. There are seven Munchies restaurants in Ireland today, and they employ 42 staff, and her Mucnhies franchise is on the up and up. If you want to take up a Munchies franchise, then expect to pay between €100,000 and €190,000 and the risk is shared between franchiser and franchisee.
GIZ A JOB - I CAN DO THAT
A while ago, Alan lost his construction job and ended up sleeping rough. Enter Business in the Community Ireland ( BITCI), a voluntary organisation who don't just spout the "Corporate Social Responsibility" ( CSE ) so beloved of the jargonistas, they actually do something about it. Alan got a three-week placement at Marks & Spencer and is now looking for retail work. Moira Horgan of BITCI picks up the story, and more than that wants more businesses to follow the example of Marks and Spencer. If your business can help somebody like Alan, then she is the woman to talk to.
Business in the Community Ireland
32 Lower O'Connell Street
Dublin 1
Tel : 01 874 7232
Emai: info@bitc.ie
Web: www.bitc.ie
PHISH OFF
One of our listeners, Donal O Callaghan is a customer of AIB and last week he received an email telling him his internet account was about to expire.
It came from what looked like a genuine AIB email address
He was asked to click on a link in the email to send on details of his account so it could be renewed..
Donal was rightly suspicious, so he went on to the AIB website and forwarded the email to an address AIB gives for dodgy looking emails..Donal simply wanted to know was the email genuine?....He got a response, which read:
'thank you for taking the time to contact us. Please not that this is an auto generated response. It then says that AIB never requests any login or personal details via email' .We contacted AIB on Donal's behalf... And their security expert Sean Jevens told us that AIB, or any other bank for that matter never send out emails, he also told us that there has been a huge increase in the number and sophistication of these phishing emails in recent weeks, you can listen to more from Sean on the subject of email security here. ( GO TO PODCAST PAGE FOR BUSINESS)
Programme 23: 22 February 2009
PLAY IT, EDGE!
Fitness junkies David Mulqueen and James Swan decided to turn their hobbies into their job and six weeks ago set up their own personal training studio in Clontarf in Dublin.
So in these days of disposable jobs rather than disposable income can they make it work. We asked Liam Grifin, who brought the Wexford hurlers to All Ireland success in 1996 and is by the way one of Irelands leading hoteliers to give them some advice
David Mulqueen
Tel:086 173 9102
Email: david@theedgeclontarf.com
James Swan
Tel: 087 696 8336
Email: james@theedgeclontarf.com
Website: www.theedgeclontarf.com
Liam Griffin
Griffin Group
Website: www.griffingroup.ie
The Business Reporter getting checked out by David Mulqueen of The Edge personal Training Studio Clontarf Dublin.
N E 1 4 RELLIS
Limerick man Paul Rellis took over as MD of Microsoft Ireland this time last year after 8 years working with the company. He has strong views on the role of US multinationals in Ireland and what Ireland needs to do to make the much vaunted knowledge economy work. Microsoft employ some 1200 permanent and 700 contract staff in Ireland, so they are no small player. This month Microsoft launched their Bizspark programme globally. Essentially Microsoft provide start up companies with a range of software and other products and licences at reduced costs and with support (advice and investor contacts) and visibility (in the form of networking).
Microsoft Ireland,
Sandyford Industrial Estate,
Dublin 18
Tel: 01 295 3826
Website: www.microsoft.com/ireland
Website: www.bizspark.ie.
PHONE WITH SUN BURN?
The first Solar Powered Phone-were launched at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona during the week with a big Irish connection.
The Dutch company, Intiva, who produced the solar cell to charge the phone is headed by Donald Fitzmaurice (one time Professor of Nanochemistry at UCD) and Digicel, founded by Dennis O'Brien, are giving the phones to their customers. The Coral-200-Solar will sell at €15 and could be the answer for the 1.6billion in the world who do not have access to reliable ( or any) electricity. Tom Bryan, in charge of Device Distribution, Digicel Group, and Donald filled John in on this great leap forward and how they became involved .. 1 hour of sun will give you 15 mins talktime.
Click here to hear a longer version of the interview.
Donald Fitzmaurice
Email: d.fitzmaurice@o2.ie
Website: www.intivation.nl
Tom Bryant,
VP Device Distribution,
Digicel Group
Website: www.digicelgroup.com
DRESSION FOR THE RECESSION
John went out on the mean streets of Dublin with the Trinny and Susanna of Ireland, Ann Finn of Brown Thomas and image consultant, Mary Holmes to see what people are doing to imprsess in these straitened times.
Ann Finn
Head of Men's Personal Shopping
Brown Thomas
Dublin:
Tel:01 605 6666
Website: www.brownthomas.com
Mary Holmes
Ruby Seven
Tel: 087 - 9003494
e-mail: mary@rubyseven.ie
Website: www.rubyseven.ie
Programme 22: 15 February 2009
UPWARDLY MOBILE
Later today, no fewer than fifty Irish companies will be flying to Barcelona to promote their wares and network at the world's biggest mobile phone show: Mobile World Congress. Technologies and services for mobiles is one area where Ireland is producing some real world beaters Two of them joined John in studio to tell him about their ambitions.
Ivan McDonald, CEO
Dial 2 Do
www.dial2do.com
Darragh Ballesty,
Vice President of Products
Vyro Games
14/15 St. Stephen's Green
Dublin 2
01 642 5271
www.vyro-games.com
CHAMPY AT THE BIT
James Champy is one of America's most influential business gurus. In the 1990s, his first book spent a year on the New York Times Bestseller List. Since then, he's become Chairman of Perot Systems' consulting practice which last year bought the Irish company, Original Solutions. Richie Beirne met up with James recently during a visit to Dublin to hear some pearls of wisdom.
Jim Champy
c/o The Hendra Agency Inc.
142 Sterling Place
Park Slope
Brooklyn, NY 11217
001 718.622.3232
www.jimchampy.com
TASTY AND TEMPTING INTERVIEW
It's over 30 years since Galway school teacher, Pat McDonagh, opened the first branch of what became Ireland's most successful indigenous restaurant chain. Today, Supermacs operates 93 restaurants, employs two-and-a-half thousand people, and turns over almost a hundred million Euro.
Pat McDonagh, MD,
Supermac's
Supermac's Head Office
Ballybrit Business Park
Ballybrit
Galway
091 774100
www.supermacs.ie
THE ENBIO OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT?
We've been told that the best way out of the recession is through innovation - research and develop technology, and then take it to the market. That's exactly what a recent start-up company in East Cork is doing. Enbio is developing ways to put anti-infection drugs and growth-promoting chemicals on to medical implants. Tim Desmond went to Carrigtwohill to find out more.
John O'Donoghue,
EnBIO
Fota Point Enterprise Park
Carrigtwohill
Co. Cork
021 4882655
SOFT LAND(ING)?
Jim McCarthy is convinced that agricultural land is the investment of the future, but not necessarily in Ireland, where prices of €40,000 a hectare can be reached, but in Argentina, The US, Eastern Europe. So how do you run a farm 10,000 miles away? Well, Jim will fix it for you!
Agricultural Investment Managers Limited
Head office
54 John Street
Kilkenny
1890 931958
www.agriinvestments.ie
INSPECT YOUR GADGETS
Back in November, we spoke to a prize-winner from the Young Entrepreneur of the Year competition. He was Andrew Deegan and his company, Breakout Interactive, had developed a doll-shaped joy-stick for young children playing computer games. This week, Andrew returned to talk us through some gadgets that have arrived in the shops recently. How did we ever live without ;
Heated Waistcoat - EUR60 from www.4giftsdirect.ie
10-sound Gotta-Go Machine - EUR12 from www.GadgetIreland.com
Euro Coin Counter - EUR14 from www.GadgetIreland.com
MyVu Crystal Personal Media Viewer - EUR200 from O2 Experience stores: www.o2online.ie; www.myvu.com
USB Panic Button - EUR20 from www.GadgetIreland.com
Programme 21: 8 February 2009
TEXT POLL - We asked the question- was the Government right to introduce the Pension Levy for Public Servants?
Total Poll was 3,035 -
56% said No
44% said Yes -
NOW, WE'RE (BIN) THRASHIN'
How do you get 4 elephants into a mini? No! Not 2 in the back and 2 in the front-use the bintrasher instead. Well, if it can squash the contents of your overflowing wheelie bin, so it no longer resembles a burst mattress, then 4 elephants is no problem. Eamon Treacy, from Klldavin, Wexford is Mr Bintrasher and he tells us how he has produced a simple device to solve one of the western world's most "pressing" problems. Now Eamon has Bintrasher ready to roll, he needs some sound advice, and Ben Dunne, a man who knows a little about business, has offered to share his experience with Eamon.
Eamon Treacy
Treacy Engineering Ltd
Ballinvalley
Kildavin
Enniscorthy
Co. Wexford
059 91 57629
bintrasher@yahoo.ie
www.BinTrasher.com
Ben Dunne
Westpoint Health & Fitness Centre
Blanchardstown
Dublin 15
01 8221103
FUJITSUITS YOU MADAM!
Regina Moran is the CEO of Fujitsu Ireland, who really do work at the much talked about high-valued-added-knowledge-based (etc) end of IT industry.. and Fujitsu ( Japanese by the way) are an enormous IT operation. 160,000 employees in 70 countries, revenues of $53 billion dollars for 2007 and lot's of other big numbers give you the picture their operation. London born but "rared" here in Clonmel, Co Tipp, she is convinced of Fujitsu's long term place in Ireland.
Regina Moran
CEO, Fujitsu Ireland
Airside Business Park
Swords
Co. Dublin
www.ie.fujitsu.com
AN ASPIRACON JOB?
Only if you need serious project management! The Cork firm AspiraCon arose from the ashes of the Motorola closure in the city, with real parallels to this week's Ericsson closure in Dublin. Pat Lucey is the MD of the firm that develops project management software such as Project Collaborator, a tool for creating web-based project schedules. Anyway Pat can explain all that, but he can also tell you how he and other former Motorola staff turned a tragedy into an opportunity.
Pat Lucey MD,
AspiraCon Project Management,
Rubicon Centre,
CIT Campus,
Bishopstown,
Cork
Tel: 021 235 2550
http://www.aspiracon.com
HI -SPEED (BROADBAND) DATING
Want to turn a virtual friend into a flesh and bone companion? Well, the Business is where love stories begin. Grainne Barry is the MD of AnotherFriend.com, the Parteen, Co Limerick based online dating service, Ireland's biggest. And we meet the happily married Co. Wexford couple who met on through the webservice and can prove that it does work. And with St Valentine about to grace us again this year, no better time to tell about both a heartwarming business and a heartskipping romance story woven together via the world wide web.
Grainne Barry
Managing Director,
AnotherFriend.com
WebDev Ltd
Suite 132
105 Lower Rathmines Road
Dublin
www.anotherfriend.com
WANT TO DROP A HEAVY DEPOSIT?
A survey this week found that, since the recession began, we Irish are saving much more than before. On average, we'll each save four thousand Euro this year, so it's no wonder banks and building societies are advertising aggressively to get their hands on our money. Tim Desmond reviews the deposit rates on offer in Ireland and sorts out the wheat from the chaff.
Deposit Rates 1
ANY WOMAN'S IDEAL LOVER?
Answer- a man who makes love all night long and then turns into chocolate at dawn. Chocolate Heaven indeed! But in reality Chocolate Heaven is a new company founded by Anni Kilgannon who have just launched ADAM, handmade chocolates for Men. Apparently, men like chocolate as well and after researching 100 Irish men to find out what their favourite centre/flavour was Anni came up with Adam. By the way there is also Eve for the women.
Anni Kilgallon,
Managing Director,
Chocolate Heaven Ltd
P.O. Box 11113
Blackrock,
Co. Dublin,.
Tel: 086-2573536
chocolate@chocolateheaven.ie
www.chocolateheaven.ie
Programme 20: 1 February 2009
FORGET PARIS, LOOK AT CORK'S OWN ELYSIAN FIELDS ( CHAMPS ELYSEES)
Michael O'Flynn is not only one of Ireland's major property players but the owner of the tallest building in the country. At 71 metres high, the 17 story Elysian is six metres higher than Cork County Hall (65m) and 13 metres higher than Liberty Hall in Dublin (58m). So on the week that Sean Dunne has his proposals for a high rise in Dublin's Ballsbridge squashed, John asks Michael O'Flynn, a farmer's son from Ovens, how he did it. Also how did the darlings of the Celtic Tiger, the men of property, suddenly beome the villains of the piece?
Michael O'Flynn
O'Flynn Construction
Beckett House
Barrack Square, Ballincollig
Co. Cork
(0)21 4343111
http://www.oflynnconstruction.ie/
SAY WHAT YOU MENTOR SAY
This week's business looking for a mentor is the Golf Voucher Shop, and owner Leo Hassett reckons he has the answer to buying a gift for any of Ireland's estimated 210,000 members of golf clubs. The Clonakilty based business has it all stiched up! Well not quite, as this is not a good time to be starting any business. So we have teamed Leo up with Ted Dwyer, the latest in the line of one of Cork's Merchant Prince families. The Dwyer family founced the famous and much lamented Sunbeam Wolsey business, and what's more Ronan O'Gara is married to one of the Dwyers. So Ted is a man with a pedigree, a good story to tell and hopefully some sound advice for Leo.
Leo Hassett
The Golf Voucher Shop
Clogheen
Clonakilty
Co. Cork
087 8590570
leo@golfvouchershop.ie
www.golfvouchershop.ie
The book on the Dwyer family is "Dwyers of Cork, a Family Business" and a business family. It costs €30 from Easons and most booksellers and at Amazon
Ted Dwyer
City Life Wealth Advisors
Nore House
Bessboro Road
Blackrock
Cork
021 4358533
021 4358556
info@citylife.ie
www.citylife.ie
WHO ARE YOU CALLING A HOOKER!
As if being a well respected rugby pundit, former Ireland and Lions' Captain and leader through triple crown victories for Ireland is not enough, Ciaran Fitzgerald now runs Visualise media. A long way from the Durex franchise in Ireland, where he started his business career in earnest, Visualise specialise in ambient media..What? Well, at it's simplest it's those ads above the urinals in pubs and restaurants, but things are a bit more sophisticated now, with internet advertising becoming a bigger part of their business. Ciaran tells John how he has built this business and how running a business is a bit like being leader or a rugby team. Oh, and he played hooker for Ireland!
Ciaran Fitzgerald
Visualise Advertising Solutions
15 Solus Tower Estate
Corke Abbey Road
Bray
Co. Wicklow
01 281 4847
info@visualise.ie
www.visualise.ie
SOLVE CORK HURLING ROW? GIVE ME THE WORLD ECONOMIC CRISIS INSTEAD PLEASE
Kieran Mulvey is Ireland's best known industrial trouble shooter and has solved many a gnarly problem. Last year he was asked to step into the cauldron of Cork GAA. As we know the dispute is still going on, so not even the super hero of Irish dispute resolution could work this one out, so we asked him about this and some easier problems such as our economic collapse and the current partnership talks.
Kieran Mulvey
Labour Relations Commission
Tom Johnson House
Haddington Road
Dublin 4
01-613-6705
Kieran_Mulvey@entemp.ie
www.lrc.ie
DAA COMP - And who won that really great prize of one year's free membership for the DAA Collinstown Executive Car Park @ Dublin Airport?
Dara Clarke of Terenure West in Dublin was the winner based on a convincing submission by spouse Maureen.. So well done. Maureen.. and you owe her a good night out, Dara
Find out more about the best parking rates rates by booking online at http://www.daa.ie/
Programme 20: 25 January 2009
TUNE IN, TURN ON, GIVE UP
Tired of crap broadband, still in the internet dark ages? Intune is a telecoms equipment design company based here. John Dunne is Chief Marketing Officer and he tells John Murray they have solved many of the key problems encountered in deploying next generation telecoms network services, such as high definition tv over the web. Intune are so confident of their systems that they say they will be able to take up large numbers of those laid off in the IT sector in recent times to meet demand. Too good to be true.. apparently not! Ties in nicely with the Great Broadband Race last week and the announcement of 3 filling in the broadband holes in Ireland. And we follow up on that Broadband race with a speed test - check your internet speed at www.irishisptest.com.
Intune Networks Ltd
9B Beckett Way,
Parkwest
Dublin 12,
Ireland
Tel: 01-6204700
email: info@intunenetworks.com
Web: www.intunenetworks.eu
Intune Networks presentation - Click here to download.
DAT WAS ( DRAGONS') DEN AND DIS IS NOW
Niall Harbison and Sean Fee took their iFoods website to the UK version of the Den last year and were chewed up and spat out for their troubles.. But they now have a "real investor" and the foodie/recipe website is in the throes of a major relaunch as LookAndTaste.com. To celebrate their slaying of the Dragons and the Chinese New Year, they came into studio armed with a Chinese specialty meal and a good story.
You can view the video of the recipe- click here
The ingredients are
Niall's Chinese New Year recipe
1/2 pound steak
· 1/2 teaspoon sugar
· 2 teaspoons soy sauce
· 2 teaspoons Chinese rice vi
· 1 1/2 teaspoons cornstarch
· 1 tablespoon vegetable oil, such as canola
· Other: 2 bell peppers, 1 green and 1 orange or red
· 1 small onion
· 1 tablespoon Chinese fermented black beans or black bean sauce, or to taste
· 2 cloves garlic
· 2 large slices ginger
· 4 tablespoons oil for stir-frying, or as needed
· 1/2 cup chicken stock or broth or water
www.lookandtaste.com
THE OX TALE
This coming Chinese New Year is the year of the ox. Deirdre Walsh is Managing Director of ChinaGreen and she is telling us the Celtic Tiger needs to transform to the Celtic Ox. ChinaGreen specialise in helping Irish businesses to work in China and she shares her experience with John.
Terenure Enterprise Centre
17 Rathfarnham Road,
Terenure
Dublin 6W
Ireland
Tel: 01 4903237
Email: info@chinagreen.ie
Web: www.chinagreen.ie
FROM THE LAND OF THE RISING DEFICIT TO THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN
Brian Cowen led a major trade mission to Japan at the start of the year. And to fill us in on doing business in the Far East, John talked to Fred Combe, a Singapore-based Irishman and the founder and managing director of NATUS Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based corporate management consultancy. He's just written a major book on business in Asia for publishers McGraw Hill. Prior to this Fred spent 18 years in a major multinational marketing firm in Asia.
You can listen to that interview here.
The book in question is Business Journey to the East - by Professor Chow-Hou Wee and Fred Combe (www.mcgraw-hill.com)
Website: www.natus.com.sg
PARK THAT!
If you use car parking at Dublin Airport regularly, then this is for you ..
One year's free membership for the DAA Collinstown Executive Car Park @ Dublin Airport. This is on the ground floor of DAA's multi storey short term car park, less than a minutes walk to the terminal. There's a dedicated entrance and exit and offers members' unlimited car parking for one car for the year.
You need to tell us why you can make best use of this car space in not more than 50 words by email to Thebusiness@rte.ie to reach us by noon on Friday next, January 30. The winner will be announced on next Sunday's show. Terms and conditions apply (link).
DAA offer online parking at the best rates at
www.daa.ie
EDDIE CURRENT
This week John talks at length to Dr. Eddie O'Connor, boss of Mainstream Renewable Power. Eddie was founder and Chief Executive of Airtricity Holdings Ltd. from 1997 to January 2008. Airtricity moved to a leading global position in renewable energy between 2000 and 2008. Scientific American magazine named him as world energy policy leader in 2003.
In October 2007, Airtricity announced that it was selling its North American business unit (Airtricity North America) to E.on for approximately $1.4bn (€995m). The remainder of the company was sold to Scottish and Southern Energy in January 2008. Flush with success (and cash), Eddie took just one month to set up Mainstream Renewable Power.
To listen to the entire, unedited interview, click here.
1st Floor, Cedarhurst Building,
Arkle Road,
Sandyford,
Dublin 18,
Ireland
Tel: 01 294 2399
Email: Info@mainstreamrp.com
www.mainstreamrp.com
A KANTURKEY OF AN IDEA ?
Save the whale and a wad of money at the same time. ResourceKraft have a proud boast that they really can save businesses a fortune by energy management. Musgrave's Supervalue chain expect to cut electricity useage by up to 44 Megawatts annually using the Limerick based company's all Irish technology in all their stores.. Tim Desmond went to Twohigs Supervalu in Kanturk, North Cork to hear the good tidings from Frank Casey of ResourceKraft.
(And the company have been shortlisted for the 2008 Ulster bank Business Achievers Awards as one of the Munster finalists - www.businessachieversaward.com)
ResourceKraft Ltd.,
Moylish Park,
Limerick
Ireland
Tel; 061 490144
Web; www.ResourceKraft.com
DON'T YOU WANT ME ?
Less Human League and more Human Resources. Our resident HR Consultant, Carol Ann Casey, answers questions sent in by those on both sides of the desk, with problems anybody in working life can relate to. Carol Ann is also "The Independent Adjudicator of the Law Society*, meaning she adjudicates on complaints about the actions of Solicitors.
CA Consulting Limited
17 Rathfarnham Road
Terenure
Dublin 6W
Tel: 01 497 5588
www.caconsulting.ie
Programme 19: 18 January 2009
MEMO TO B. COWEN
As An Taoiseach returns from his trip to Japan, we speak to two business people with quirky suggestions for how the Government should tackle the crisis.
Regina Moran
CEO, Fujitsu Ireland
01 813 6000
www.fujitsu.com/ie/
Pat Kennedy
Business, Executive & Personal Coach
046 902 4088
www.patkennedy.ie
pat@patkennedy.ie
THE GREAT BROADBAND RACE
With some many conflicting reports about the performance of various mobile broadband services, we decided to let four listeners with different services - and in different parts of the country - race against each other to download a large video file from our website. With some surprising results! Download the broadband race video here.(right click and choose Save Target As).
..Faster wider super quicker cheaper dearer...
A selection of Wireless broadband products available in Ireland, including the products tested in the 'The Business' totally unscientific Broadband race, run at 11.00am on 16/01/2009. Click here.
LIFE'S A PLANET BEACH. IN TALLAGHT
As part of our ongoing series where we introduce new businesses to established mentors, Richie Beirne travels to Tallaght to hear about a new business in Tallaght called Planet Beach. Business partners, Donal Coade and Ray Sheerin have purchased the Irish master franchise for what they say is the world's first and only Contempo Spa. They've invested a lot of money at a risky time for business, so we'll be introducing them to franchise genius, Brody Sweeney, of O'Brien's Sandwich Bars fame.
Donal Coade & Ray Sheehin
Plant Beach Ireland
The GlasHaus
Tallaght Cross
Dublin 24
Tel: 01-4629999
E-Mail: donal.coade@planetbeach.com
Brody Sweeney
O'Brien's Sandwich Bars
O'Briens Sandwich Bars
23 South William Street
Dublin 2
01 472 1400
info@obriens.ie
THE BIG INTERVIEW: NIALL FITZGERALD
Although a member of the Communist Party during his days in UCD, Niall Fitzgerald has gone on to be at been at the forefront of global business in the decades since. For a long time, he was with Unilever, where he became CEO in 1996. He also served on the boards of corporations such as Merck, Ericsson and the Prudential, and he spent nine years on the board of the Bank of Ireland. His latest position is deputy chairman of Thomson Reuters. John spoke to him about the global financial crisis, the Irish economy, leadership, the future of the newspaper industry, his role in Davos, his views on Africa and aid, his regrets in business, and his views on Manchester United and Munster rugby! Click here to listen to the interview.
SLUMPWATCH RETURNS
Reporter, Richie Beirne, is back on the case again seeking out the quirkier stories from Recessionland. This week, he scans the regional and national newspaper small ad's and discovers the increasingly weird ways that people are finding to make money.
Programme 18: 11 January 2009
LODZ OF JOBS GONE EAST
A sad week for Limerick saw nearly 2000 Dell manufacturing jobs migrating east to Lodz ( not pronounced Lots.. more like Woodge ). RTE's Zbyszek Zalinski comes from the Polish city and studied in Limerick, so is in a unique position to say what is behind all this turmoil and compare the 2 cities, which have a lot in common
John also talks to Rafal Branowski who is the spokesperson for Dell in Poland. You can read the full text of Dell's jargon-ridden statement about the job losses here.
SEE YOU LATER REGULATOR
The resignation of Pat Neary, the Financial Regulator, on Friday brought the first phase of financial regulation in Ireland to an ignominious end. Professor Brian Lucey of TCD explains why the regulation system was never going to work, even without apparently losing paperwork along the way and how Pat Neary was bound to the be the fall guy.
Associate Professor in Finance
Trinity College,
Dublin 2
Tel : 01 896 1552
E-mail: brian.lucey@tcd.ie
Web: http://people.tcd.ie/blucey
HER (AND HIM) OUTDOORS
Des Mulvihill and Aine Mc Cabe are the Outdoor Store in Mullingar, a new retailer specialising in .. outdoor clothing, surprisingly enough. Not a great time to start a retail business, but the arrival of their mentor might just give them an edge. And who knows more about personal clothing retailing in Ireland than the houseshold name in tailoring and suitor to the stars, Louis Copeland. Louis went undercover and checked out the store during the week, and gives Aine and Des his thoughts and advice. The couple wisely chose to coincide the birth of baby Brian with the opening of the store.. but "family planning" is, rather like "military intelligence", a complete contradiction in terms!
Outdoor Sports Mullingar
Unit 3 No.12,
Zone B,
Mullingar Business Park,
Mullingar,
Co. Westmeath.
Tel; 044 93 33572 / 087 9740671
Email : des@outdoorsports.ie
Website;www.outdoorsports.ie/
Louis Copeland
39-41 Capel Street
Dublin 1
Tel: 01 872 1600
e-mail: louis@louiscopeland.ie
Website www.louiscopeland.com
ARISE YE STARVELINGS FROM YOUR SLUMBERS!
Jack O'Connor is General President of SIPTU, Ireland's biggest union, which celebrates 100 years since its foundation by "Big" Jim Larkin. Larkin is probably better known to us all as the star of "Strumpet City" than as a socialist firebrand. Not a great time for workers or unions in Ireland, but maybe this is the time that they are most necessary, but in a society than abandoned "Berlin" and adopted "Boston", what is the future for organised labour? See if Jack O'Connor has the answers.
SIPTU Head Office
Liberty Hall, Dublin 1.
Tel: 01-8586300
E-mail: genpres@siptu.ie
Website; www.siptu.ie
HEY JOHN - WANNA NEW MOTOR?
With a 67% drop on new car sales from this time last year, it might be a buyer's market, but that's not much use unless you can get the readies to buy the car. Tim Desmond engaged top gear and went on a hunt for car finance. He told John what he discovered and who were the best Loan Arrangers. And he compiled the whole thing into a little table you can all look at. (click here)
PREDICTOR OF BEACONICITY- WHA?
David Lee is Tory leader of Wokingham Borough Council in Berkshire in the English Home Counties, and is our Jargon Buster of the week. He has just announced a mission to banish jargon from council language and documents. David is originally from Belfast, so he understands direct talk. Among the words he has banned are "cross fertilisation" and "incentivising" and, of course, "predictors of beaconicity". Take a bow, David Lee!
Website: www.wokingham.gov.uk
Programme 17: 4 January 2009
A LOAD OF CRYSTAL BALLS
All gloom and doom for 2009? We asked 6 different people in the real economy what was on the horizon this year. (Real economy means actually making and doing real things as opposed to betting on stocks, shares, property, financial derivatives, banking and horses, of which horses are a sounder prospect in that you can actually see, touch and smell them).
Joining John in Studio are;
Gerry McCaughey founded Century Homes and is now a "green entrepreneur" i.e. ecologically sustainable businesses as opposed to the Hulk in a suit.
Sean Gallagher runs Smarthomes, who provide the hidden electronic spine of our increasingly complicated tech homes.
And we got thoughts from;
John Flahavan , a "cereal " entrepreneur, of Flahavans, the household name in Ireland for all porridge eaters - Click here to listen.
Vincent Lynch of Donseed, the Kerry based company, who specialise in staff and cost management systems in the construction sector - Click here to listen.
Michelle Lynch of Crannagh Ltd in Cavan, who deal in import and export compliance and clearance - Click here to listen.
Bernard Coyle of Mr Crumb, whose products stuffed the cavities of your Christmas bird - Click here to listen.
We also dispensed with the usual pundits and financial prophets and found somebody whose insight is at least as likely to be correct as any of them, Astrologer, Fergus Gibson.
Gerry McCaughey
C/O Jack Murray of JMedia
Email; Jack@jmedia.ie
Sean Gallagher, CEO
SmartHomes,
Finnabair Industrial Park,
Dundalk,
Co. Louth
Tel: 042 939 4055
Email; info@smarthomes.ie
www.smarthomes.ie
Michelle Lynch,
Crannagh & Co,
Co. Cavan.
Tel: 049 952 2789
Email; info@crannaghtrade.eu
www.crannaghtrade.eu
John Flahavan
E. Flahavan & Sons Limited,
Kilnagrange Mills,
Kilmacthomas,
County Waterford
Tel: 051-294107
E-mail: oatmail@flahavans.com
www.flahavans.com
Vincent Lynch
Kerry Technology Park,
Tralee,
Co. Kerry.
Tel: 066 7190312
Garden Studios,
11-15 Betterton Street,
Covent Garden,
London WC2H 9BP
Tel: +44 20 7240 3007
E-mail: info@donseed.com
www.donseed.com
Bernard Coyle,
Mr Crumb,
Finea,
Mullingar,
Co.Westmeath
Tel: 043 6681148
Email: info@mrcrumb.ie
www.mrcrumb.ie
Fergus Gibson - Astrologer.
E-mail: Joshua@indigo.ie
DE BONO FIDES
Edward de Bono is the man who came up with the expression ( and concept) to outjargon everyone.Lateral Thinking (proven to be better than the blue sky variety or the outside the box type) was what he is arguably best known for, but he is a man with some very clear insights into what we can do to help ourselves.. and god knows, we could do with some clarity of thought. He also tells some of the best "blonde jokes" you are likely to hear. John talked to him at length and came away a new and more reflective person..Actaully, not really, Edward de Bono deals in thought processes not miracles. More pertinently, he has just been appointed as EU Ambassador For Thinking, now that's a gig.
Edward De Bono Non Profit Foundation
Knockmark
Drumree
Tel: 018250466
Email: edwdebono@msn.com
www.edwdebono.com
SNUGGLE UP WITH A MENTOR
Clodagh Flannery has a heart warming story, well in fact, a leg warming story. Snugglerug is a special blanket for keeping legs warm, and from her base in Athlone she wants to launch this on the world market. So we teamed her up with successful inventor, Noel Donegan, of PaperFX fame and a man with a proven track record in bringing new ideas to market, to see if he can put her on the right road.
Clodagh Flannery,
Flannovations Ireland,
54 Bloomfield Drive
Athlone
Co Westmeath
Tel; 0906 479162
Email;orders@lapwrap.ie
www.lapwrap.ie
Noel Donegan
Luz Java Limited
Fax: 01 6105324
Email: noeldonegan@luzjava.com
www.luzjava.com
MORE THAN MY JOB'S WORTH
Carol Ann Casey is a well established Human Relations consultant and regular on the Business. At the start of the New Year, she tells us how to deal with losing your job or changing career. If you want Carol Ann to answer any queries on jobs, careers or HR problems, then email to thebusiness@rte.ie and she will be back on the show in a few weeks time to answer these.
Carol Ann is also "The Independent Adjudicator of the Law Society*, meaning she adjudicates on complaints about the actions of Solicitors.
CA Consulting Limited
17 Rathfarnham Road
Terenure
Dublin 6W
Tel: 01 497 5588
www.caconsulting.ie
Programme 17: 28th December 2008
THE BUSINESS REVIEW OF THE YEAR - The year that was in the world of business.
Programme 16: 21st December 2008
CRISIS AT ANGLO IRISH
With resignations this week from Anglo Irish Bank's CEO and Chairman, John is joined this morning by Eddie Hobbs, UCD's Prof. Niamh Brennan, and Trinity's Prof. Brian Lucey.
Brian Lucey.
Associate Professor in Finance
Trinity College Dublin
brian.lucey@tcd.ie
01 896 1552
www.tcd.ie
Niamh Brennan
Michael Mac Cormac Prof of Management
Quinn School of Business
UCD
niamh.brennan@ucd.ie
01 7164707
www.ucd.ie
THE RECESSION SESSION
The second half of this morning's programme is The Business' musical extravaganza, The Recession Session. Sketches were written by Andrew Fanning and performed by Morgan Jones. Using music to hide the pain of a tough financial year were.
Diva Voces - a Dublin-based, all-female voice choir
www.divavoces.ie
divavoceschoir@gmail.com
John Collins of Original Solutions
13 Upper Fitzwilliam Street
Dublin 2
01 6449010
01 6449018
info@originalsolutions.ie
www.originalsolutions.ie
Larry Broderick of the Irish Bank Official Association
IBOA
IBOA House,
Stephen Street Upper,
Dublin 8
01 475 5908
Tom Fitzgerald of Fitzgeralds Pub Sandycove
Fitzgerald's of Sandycove,
Sandycove Road,
Sandycove,
Co. Dublin
Ireland.
01 280 4469
Sally O Brien
Farmgate
The Coolbawn Midleton Co Cork
021 463 2771
Programme 15: 14th December 2008
DEFLATION ONCE AGAIN?
Amid predictions of Ireland's first full year of deflation since 1946 next year, Ulster Bank's Pat McArdle joins John in studio to tell us what it means for you and me.
Pat McArdle
www.ulsterbank.ie
01 608 4000
pat.mcardle@ulsterbank.com
MANNA FROM DUN LAOGHAIRE
John's week of abstaining from pork is brought to a welcome end by Conor Jones, whose company, Manna Heavenly Food, delivers gourmet meals to workplaces and schools in Dublin.
Manna Heavenly Food
107 Dun Laoghaire Shopping Centre
Dun Laoghaire
Co Dublin
087 242 8025
info@manna.ie
www.manna.ie
HARD CORE PAWN
Continuing his occasional series, 'Slumpwatch', Richie Beirne brings us news this week of a London outfit that's travelling the country this week searching for gold. 'Moore & Son Jewellers' are offering cash in exchange for scrap gold and silver. Richie catches up with them in Neilstown, West Dublin, to see how they're getting on, and who's calling in.
TALL TALES FROM TAILTEN
Plucking a peacock's feather and conquering the Hill of Tara might not seem like the best business ideas, but these are two Celtic-inspired board games are proving a big success for a West Cork business called Tailten Games. Tim Desmond meets Murray Heasman at the Christmas craft fair at Dublin's RDS.
Murray Heasman
Tailten Games
Clonakilty
West Cork
www.tailtengames.com
info@projectkells.com
023 38746
TEXT POLL - MORE PORK PIES?
We asked were the government right to offer €180 million to the pig processing industry to get the factories moving again.
53% said NO
47% sid YES
Programme 14: 7th December 2008
DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS CARDS AT ALL?
I don't like Birthdays - So says Bob Geldof on the new range of novelty cards from Dublin-based greeting card company, Paper Tree. Earlier in the week, John dropped in - unannounced - to find out their plans for Christmas shopping. Among other products, the company makes a range of 'alternative humour' Christmas and greetings cards featuring voice imitations of the likes of Hector O H'Eochagáin, Roy Keane and the aforementioned Sir Bob
Paper Tree,
Unit 10,
Holly Avenue,
Stillorgan Industrial Estate,
County Dublin.
01 295 9660
info@papertree.ie
www.papertree.ie
SLUMPWATCH: TIME TO FEEL SORRY FOR ESTATE AGENTS. YEAH..RIGHT!
In the first of an occasional series, Slumpwatch, Richie Beirne turns his steely eyes on the sector where it all began: the Property Market. Richie reveals the extraordinary lengths to which estate agents have been going in order to shift houses.
D'OH! BINGE RESPONSIBLY!
You would think that Tipperary Water and Duff Beer, from The Simpsons, have little in common. Think again. The Gleeson Group, which brings us the mineral water, has bought the rights to distribute a Belgian Beer being marketed as 'Duff Beer' - Homer Simpson's preferred brand. Managing Director, Patrick Cooney, fills us in.
M& J Gleeson,
16 Cherry Orchard,
Ballyfermot,
Dublin 10.
01 626 9787
patcooney@gleesongroup.ie
BLUE OCEAN THINKING
Back in May, we heard from a new Dublin-based company, Blue Ocean Wireless, which was the first company offering mobile phone services to people who work at sea - far beyond the reach of regular phone networks. In May, the company told us that, while their future was bright, their turnover was slow. This week, they have some good news for us. Operation Manager, Damian Harrington joins us from the North Sea on one of their phone networks.
Blue Ocean Wireless
Unit 8,
Fulcrum 4,
Solent Way,
Whiteley,
Hampshire PO15 7FT, UK.
0044 1489 889 988
info@blueoceanwireless.com
www.blueoceanwireless.com
JARGON
A listener brought to our attention a jargon-laden recruitment ad from Vodafone Ireland. Within hours of queries from The Business this week, Vodafone had cleaned up their act and simplified the ad. The old and new versions of the role description for the job of 'Customer Decisioning Manager - Chordiant Marketing Director are reprinted below:
Before: Set up and manage a function that will drive the operational execution of base management contact plans on inbound channels, translating the business decisioning rules into actionable customer targets with relevant offers that optimize level of investment based on customer value
After: To setup and manage a new team to plan customer contact campaigns. You will be responsible for designing customer contact programmes to optimize investment based on customer value.
You can see the full ad in our jargon section or at
http://www.vodafone.ie/jobs/opportunities/vacancies/?mid=**flix=wa&sid=fliqmk&type=Marketing
MANAGEMENT BRIEF FOR COUGHLAN - LONG OVERDUE?
The prize in our Mary's Money quiz are the first five in the new ManagementBriefs.com series. The man behind them is Frank Scott-Lennon and the idea is to have a series of easy-to-read books that address the key issues facing managers in an accessible manner with useful, practical, best practice tips and advice.
The first five in the series are now available including Safety, Interviewing, Bullying and Harrasment, to name but 3 . All are available at ManagementBriefs.com and from The Irish Times website, and the intention is that these are only the first in a series that will run and run.
The winners will be announced on Sunday Dec 13.
www.ManagementBriefs.com
Email: Frank@ManagementBriefs.com
Tel: 086-256-0082
Programme 13: 30th November 2008
NAILS LIKE A JOCKEY'S B..?
Not to be seen to be outside the Public Sector loop on this, nail technician to the Business, Eve Mason. reveals how she buffs John's cuticles in preparation for each programme. You've no idea how important good nails are on radio.. And after all he is representing the national broadcaster!
Creative Nails & Beauty
107B New Cabra Road,
Dublin 7
Tel; 8686404
www.creativenailsandbeauty.ie
ENTER THE ENTREPRENEURS
This weekend DIT, Aungier Street, Dublin, plays host to "Growing Ethnic Businesses in Ireland', a conference that does exactly what it says it does.
Thomas Cooney, from DIT is the organiser and he explains what this initiative is all about.
Adeola Ogunsina, is in the rather convoluted term, an ethnic entrepreneur, coming from Nigeria originally, but now a naturalised Irish citizen. His latest venture is Valour Investments, a new business with a series of mobile diesel stations which he is launching this week. But Adeola will tell you the story.
Thomas Cooney
Institute for Minority Entrepreneurship,
Dublin Institute of Technology,
Aungier Street,
Dublin 2.
Tel; 01 402 7103
www.ime.ie
Thomas.cooney@dit.it
Adeola Ogunsina,
Valour Investment Ltd.,
23 Blackwood Cresent,
Ongar Chase,
Dublin 15.
veola_2000@yahoo.com
www.on-siterefueling.com
AN BORD SNIP
Richie Beirne went to Ali's Barber Shop in Dublin to see one of our "Ethnic Entrepreneurs" in action. Shaved, shorn and super-suave, Richie came back a new man after the experience. Along the way, Mehmet Ali, a third generation barber from Turkey told him his story. But who's paying for the haircut? Listen in to find out
Ali's Barber Shop
23a Aungier Street,
Dublin 2,
Ireland
Tel 01 475 8722
email: alisbarbershop@gmail.com
Richie Before
Richie After
GO EAST YOUNG MAN
And the flip side of that coin is that many Irish concerns are now heading abroad to find work. Paul Quilligan rang John from the United Arab Emirates where he is hunting business for his firm.
Paul Quilligan, Quilligan Architects
56 Camden Street Lower
01 4782800
info@quilliganarchitects.ie
http://www.quilliganarchitects.ie/
And the winner of the Louis Mulcahy Pottery Druid is Oonagh Kelly of Carrick On Suir............
Programme 12: 23rd November 2008
Gone Auto Fishing?
CarTrawler is a privately owned global car rental distribution company that was established in 2004 by Greg and Niall Turley. John Murray netted this talk with Greg. This Irish company runs a global car rental distribution system, now serving over 95 international airlines giving pricing, availability and bookings from over 450 car hire suppliers in 134 Countries.
www.cartrawler.com
Irish Consolidation Authority?
One time Chair of the Competition Authority, these days Patrick McNutt is an independent consultant specialising in anti-trust and competition law.. and he has an interesting take on competition versus consolidation in the current Irish banking climate.. Will less banks mean less competition and will the customers suffer ( even more!) as a result?
Tel:087 238 1977
www.patrickmcnutt.com
Cool as Cooley
John Teeling's Cooley whiskey operation won the prestigious Distiller of the Year award at the International Wine and Spirit Competition in London this month. John himself is a serial entrepreneur with fingers in many pies. He told John about the success of Cooley and about what he thinks of the current banking crisis.
Cooley Distillery
Riverstown, Cooley
Co. Louth
Tel: +353 (0)42 937 6102
Fax: +353 (0)42 937 6484
Email: info@cooleywhiskey.com
Treat for the Streat
The Streat, a Belfast based café franchise, won the Best Emerging Franchise at the Irish Franchise Awards 2008, announced last Thursday. Founder Michael McQuillan talks to John from Belfast about their franchise, which is rapidly expanding in Scotland, Enlgand and of course in Ireland, with a new outlet due to open in Portlaoise this coming week ( Nov 24)
The Streat franchising ltd
10 High Street
Holywood BT18 9AG
Telephone +44 2890 42 42 80
www.thestreat.com
A Druid in the Hand
Would you like a Druid for your home or workplace? A magnificent 
ceramic Druid - 4.5ft to 5.3ft high- could be yours. The Druids are sculpted by Louis Mulcahy, Ireland's best known ceramic artist, in his Dingle studio. The studio is famous, not only for its distinctive range of functional, handmade ceramics, but also for its magnificent sculpted pieces, of which the druids are a prime example.
The Druids are currently on display in and outside Louis Mulcahy's shop in Dawson Street in Dublin (almost opposite St Anne's Church). They can be viewed there or on the website www.louismulcahy.com or here
If that's a bit much Louis will give you a slightly smaller ( but not too 
much) free standing lamp. And don't worry the Druid can be delivered to you by Louis.
The Louis Mulcahy Dublin shop provides a distinctive Irish made service to corporate and personal customers
Entries for comp are by text on Sunday 23 until 10.30 am or by email to
Thebusiness@rte.ie to arrive not later than Friday next ( 28th) at 12 noon .. Winner will be announced by John on the show on Sunday 30th
Louis Mulcahy Pottery
46 Dawson St. Dublin 2
Fón: 01 6709311
Louis Mulcahy Pottery
Potadóireacht na Caolóige
Clothar, Baile'n Fheirtéaraigh, Trá Lí, Co. Chiarraí, Éire.
Clogher, Ballyferriter, Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland.
Fón: 066 9156229
admin@louismulcahy.com
www.Louismulcahy.com
Programme 11: 16th November 2008
TAKING THE NATION'S PULSE
Twenty-five weeks after the ESRI formally announced the recession, The Business takes the nation's pulse. Richie Beirne hears from the public while, back in studio, Leo Moore of McCann Ericsson reveals the results of a new study about consumer behaviour in the downturn.
Leo Moore
McCann Erickson
Hambledon House
19-26 Lower Pembroke Street
Dublin 2
SURF'S UP
We hear from former chef, Tim Rooney, who gave up a steady job two years ago to work full time on his dream: inventing a healthy snack food that would conquer the world. After investing hundreds of thousands of his own money in the product, Surfseeds, Tim is finally getting to unleash it on the public this autumn. We catch up with him to ask the obvious question: is he mad?
Tim Rooney,
Surfseeds
The Food Hub
Carrick Road
Drumshanbo
Co. Leitrim
087 911 5500
www.surfseeds.com
CRACKS APPEAR IN GLASS CEILING
Ten years after it was founded, the Women's Executive Network has arrived in Ireland. The occasion was marked recently in the National Gallery, when founder, Pamela Jeffery, travelled to Dublin to attend WXN's inaugural breakfast series. Other notable attendees included Mary Davis [Special Olympics], Maeve Donovan [Irish Times], and Danuta Gray [O2], and our own Richie Beirne too. WXN's Irish breakfast events will run until May 2009 in Dublin, Cork and Belfast.
Women's Executive Network
P.O. Box 11480
Dublin 1
0505 47797
ostanley@wxnetwork.ie
www.wxnetwork.com/homeireland.aspx
Programme 10: 9th November 2008
BLEND IT LIKE BALLYCOOLIN
This week, John takes the programme out of the studio and into the roastery : Java Republic's new, carbon-neutral roastery in Ballycoolin, north Dublin, to be precise. The company's founder, David McKernan, gives John a taste of some, er, exotic coffees, and a full tour of the roastery, the café, and the Barrista University.
David McKernan,
Java Republic Roasting Company,
The Roastery,
510 Mitchelstown Road,
Northwest Business Park,
Ballycoolin,
Dublin 15.
Tel: 01 8809300
david@javarepublic.com
www.javarepublic.ie
FROM SMALL TO TALL
Sticking with the theme of food and coffee, John caught up with Brody Sweeney, founder of O'Brien's Sandwich Bars, who has written a new book for entrepreneurs. 'From Small to Tall' is published by Gill & MacMillan.
Brody Sweeney,
O'Briens Sandwich Bars,
23 South William Street,
Dublin 2.
Tel: 01 4721400
info@obriens.ie
www.obriens.ie
Programme 9: 2nd November 2008
CHEER UP IRELAND!
John spoke to Charlie Weston of the Irish Independent who gave listeners three very good reasons to be cheerful, despite everything. Oil prices: down! Interest rates: down! Food expenditure: down! How much of a difference will it make for the average Irish family? Only Charlie's got the answers.
Charlie Weston,
The Irish Independent,
Independent House,
27 - 32 Talbot Street,
Dublin 1
Telephone: +353 (0)1 705 5333
A WIN / LOSE SITUATION
John Delaney, CEO of online prediction market, Intrade.com, spoke to The Business. Intrade employs 18 people in Clondalkin and, since they went live in 2001, has become the world's leading online predictions market. Intrade's 70,000 members pit their wits against each other, effectively buying shares in the outcome of chosen events. On the US election and primaries alone, members have bet $170m on outcomes. Their collective wisdom this week suggests that Obama has an 85% chance of being the next American President. are they right? You'll have to wait until Tuesday night to find out.
John Delaney
CEO, Intrade
01-620-0300
www.intrade.com
A CAST IRON GURANTEE
With the chilly winds of autumn and recession blowing across the land, Tipperary stove manufacturer, Mulberry, is confident about its future in spite - and possibly because of - uncertainty over oil prices. Tim Desmond visited Carrick-on-Suir and met Peter Hughes.
Peter Hughes,
Mulberry Stoves,
Carrick Business Park,
Carrick-on-Suir,
Co. Tipperary.
www.mulberrystoves.com
info@mulberrystoves.com
Tel. 051 649 771
Click here to listen to the full length piece on Mulberry Stoves
BRIGHT SPARKS IN KILKENNY & DUBLIN
Is there any future for the Irish economy? If Andrew Deegan of Breakout GC and Paul Young of Cartoon Saloon, have anything to do with it, there certainly is. Andrew Deegan won an award at this week's Shell Livewire Young Entrepreneur of the Year competition for his work developing a prototype joystick for games consoles that is shaped like an action doll. Paul Young featured on The Business three years ago, and this week his company, Cartoon Saloon, was nominated for a BAFTA for their popular cartoon, Skunk Fu!
Andrew Deegan
Docklands Innovation Park
128-130 East Wall Road
Dublin 3
01 449 8114
087 754 1036
www.breakoutgc.com
Paul Young
Cartoon Saloon
The Maltings,
Tilbury Place,
James Street,
Kilkenny
056 776 4481
www.cartoonsaloon.ie/
Shell Livewire Competition
www.shell-livewire.org/
enquiries@shell-livewire.org
Programme 8: 26th October 2008
EXPENSIVE MISTAKE FOR SEAN QUINN
Simon Carswell joined us to shed light on the Financial Regulator's decision to fine Quinn Insurance €3.25m - the biggest ever penalty of its kind. On top of the company fine, Mr Quinn is to pay €200,000 to the regulator. The regulator said it had 'reasonable cause to suspect that breaches of the regulatory requirements occurred in relation to Quinn Insurance.'
Simon Carswell,
Finance Correspondent
The Irish Times
Tara Street
Dublin 2.
Tel. 01 675 8000
COWEN- YOU'RE FIRED!
Following in the footsteps of Donald Trump and Alan Sugar, the pride of Summerhill - Bill Cullen - has left behind the penny apples and exchanged them for the boardroom. On TV3's The Apprentice, Bill is currently whittling his way through fourteen candidates to choose one apprentice to join him for a six-figure salary. John speaks to him this week about the programme, about surviving the recession, and about the recent Budget.
Bill Cullen,
Europa Academy,
Europa Campus,
Balheary Road,
Swords,
Co. Dublin.
Tel: 01 8839200
info@europaacademy.com
www.europaacademy.com
QUANTUM OF HAVOK
The makers of the new Bond movie, Quantum of Solace [released 31st October 2008] are hoping to beat their previous box office takings of $600m. To help them with their special effects, they enlisted the help of Dublin software company, Havok, as the company's Vice President of Development, David Coghlan, explained.
The Digital Depot
Thomas Street
Dublin 8
Ireland
Tel: 01 472 4300
www.havok.com
Programme 7: 19th October 2008
A HOLIDAY WITH THE TAXMAN?
If you're watching your pennies these days, the prospect of getting the Revenue to pay for your holidays might sound very attractive indeed. It's one of the promises made by a new, Dublin-based company called www.PayLessTax.ie, which claims to be Ireland's first online personal tax consultancy. Cathal Maxwell offered listeners some post-budget advice.
Cathal Maxwell,
PayLessTax Ltd.,
117 Baggot Court,
Dublin 2.
01 644 9350
www.PayLessTax.ie
DOCTOR DOCTOR, I HEARD A BIG CRUNCH.
After the budget, are there any easy ways to make your money go further? With banking shares apparently so low, is now the time to buy? John Lowe came into studio to give our listeners his take. For years, as 'The Money Doctor', John has been helping the Irish manage their money wisely. His 2009 Finance Annual is due out in early November, and will be published by Gill & MacMillan, and contains his 20 ways to beat the credit crunch
John Lowe,
Providence Finance Services Limited,
Providence House,
Lower Kilmacud Road,
Stillorgan,
Co. Dublin.
01 278 5555
www.moneydoctor.ie
www.gillmacmillan.ie/Ecom/Library3.nsf/CatalogByCategory/
5566C85F7E55079D8025745F004C79D6?OpenDocument
2 WHEELS GOOD, 4 WHEELS BAD!
We told avid cyclist Richie Beirne to get on his. er.. bike and find out what this bicycle business in the budget was all about. So he went to Joe Daly Cycles in Dundrum in Dublin and took the temperature in the bike trade with Joe himself and Dave Tansey, the son and heir. Richie also found out exactly ( or as exactly as he could) what the bdudget provisions mean and outlined it to John,, Those details and some practical advice for those about to leap onto their saddles is attached here
JOE DALYS CYCLES DUNDRUM
PHONE /FAX: (01) 2981485
RICHIES GUIDE TO BIKES IN THE BUDGET
Cycle to work scheme
HOW IT WORKS.
When does it start?
From January the first..
Your employer buys the bike for you up to a value of a 1000 euro and you pay them back over a period not longer than twelve months .
Unlike the UK where the Employer can reclaim the VAT they are not allowed to here...
FROM DEPT OF FINANCE:
Employers will be charged VAT on any purchase of bicycles for employees. They will not be in a position to reclaim such VAT.
Where they choose to operate such a scheme, they will save on the employer's PRSI charge (10.75%) on the amount of benefit that they grant or, as is more likely, the amount of salary that is sacrificed by the employee.
What's the benefit to me?
As an employee in normal circumstance a bike costing a thousand euro would cost you 1200 or 1400 depending on your tax band but as this scheme operates pre tax it you get the extra in your tax free allowance.
Can I buy any bike I like up to any price?
You can buy any bike you want but all you are able to claim for is the 1000 euros.
If I am already cycling is it of any benefit to me?
No benefit.
How often can I apply to get a new bike?
The scheme applies once every five years.
Can I buy accessories and safety equipment for the bike?
You can get safety equipment under the scheme .
DEPT FINANCE:
Qualifying safety equipment
. Cycle helmets which conform to European standard EN 1078
. Bells and bulb horns
. Lights, including dynamo packs
. Mirrors and mudguards to ensure riders visibility is not impaired
. Cycle clips and dress guards
. Panniers, luggage carriers and straps to allow luggage to be safely carried
. Locks and chains to ensure cycle can be safely secured
. Pumps, puncture repair kits, cycle tool kits and tyre sealant to allow for minor repairs
. Reflective clothing along with white front reflectors and spoke reflectors
Do Employers have to sign up to this scheme?
DEPT OF FINANCE:
Employers will be under no obligation to operate the new cycle scheme.
Do electric bikes qualify?
No.
TIPS FOR COMMUTING:
HYBRIDS BEST FOR COMMUTING..CROSS BETWEEN MTN BIKE AND RACING BIKE.
GOOD WIDTH TYRES NOT KNOBBLIES..
RED LIGHTS AT BACK WHITE AT FRONT MINIMUM.
REFLECTIVE CLIPS IF WEARING TROUSERS OR FLUORESCENT PIPING WITH VELCRO THAT YOU CAN STICK ON.
ALWAYS HAVE MUDGAURDS
WATERPROOF YOURSELF SAVE YOU GETTING PILES AND KEEPS YOUR CLOTHES CLEAN
ALWAYS WEAR A HELMET.. AGAIN ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO BE VISIBLE .. STICK ON LIGHTS OR REFLECTIVE STRIPS.
THERE ARE ALSO PEDALITES (http://www.pedalite.com/) WHICH YOU CAN BUY .. ESSENTIALLY THE MOVEMENT OF THE PEDALLING RECHARGES THE BATTERY IN THE PEDAL BODY SO YOU ARE LIT ALL THE TIME AND WILL LAST FOR UP TO 5 MINUTES WHEN STATIONARY.
GOOD BRAKES.
WHEN BUYING A BIKE GET THE SIZING RIGHT CRUCIAL TO PREVENT INJURY.. RIGHT FRAME SIZE WILL SAVE YOU A LOT OF PAIN AND BUCKS IN THE LONG RUN..
IF THE WEATHER IS VERY BAD.. PUMP YOUR TYRES TO MAX AND THEN LET A LITTLE AIR OUT TO ALLOW THE TYRE TO GRIP THE ROAD BETTER TO PREVENT SLIDING OR SKIDDING.. ROCK HARD TYRES AND RAIN DON'T WORK.
FINALLY WHEN COMUTING IN TRAFFIC COMMAND THE ROADS. BE ASSERTIVBE NOT AGGRESSIVE
BE VISIBLE AND SAFE.
Programme 6: 12th October 2008
INVESTING IN OIL - Click here.
FINGALS CAVE (OF IDEAS FOR ENTREPRENEURS)
Listen to more on the Fingal Day of Enterprise - Click here.
Held on September 25, this was the second year of the "Fingal Day of Enterprise" orgainised by Fingal County Enterprise Board (CEB). According to the 2007 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Report, 8.2% of the adult population living in Ireland are engaged in entrepreneurial activity. So Fingal CEB decided to do something practical to help such a wide group in 2007 and were overwhelmed by the numbers who turned up and the interest shown.. Tom Cook went to Swords to see what was going on, and check out how much use it really was to budding entrepreneurs.
www.fingalenterpriseday.ie
Oisin Geoghegan
C.E.O
Agnes Doyle
Mentor Panel Agnes Doyle
Fingal County Enterprise Board
Mainscourt
Swords
Fingal
Co. Dublin
Tel: 01 8900800
E-mail: info@fingalceb.ie
Website: www.fingalceb.ie
Rosanne Smith
Irish Internet Association
Digital Hub
101 James Street
Dublin 8
Tel: 01 5424154
E-mail: info@iia.ie
Website: www.iia.ie
Mark Fielding
Irish Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (ISME)
17 Kildare Street
Dublin 2
Tel: 01 662 2755
E-mail: info@isme.ie
Website: www.isme.ie
Tom Cook went to Croke Park for the enterprise seminar in late September- click here for more details from the Innovation Seminar.
YOU TALKIN' TO ME, PUNK?
Ahead of their trip to Las Vegas, Garry McMullan, CEO, and Eddy Carroll, CTO of voice-controlled home entertainment company, Amulet Devices, came into studio to give John a sneak preview of their prototype.
Amulet Devices
Suite 11, El-Greco Building
St James Court
Serpentine Avenue
Ballsbridge, Dublin 4
Ireland
Tel: 087 293 4173
info@amuletdevices.com
amuletdevices.com
WOULD YOU LIKE YOUR STEAK ON THE BONE OR ON THE LINE, MADAM?
One of the more unusual accolades at this year's Good Food Ireland awards was made for the most innovative use of IT, unusual because it was won by a butcher. James Whelan Butchers in Clonmel has developed a virtual shop online which now delivers meat products overnight to Ireland, and within 48 hours to the UK and Europe.... Tim Desmond went to Clonmel to meet award winner Pat Whelan.
James Whelan Butchers,
Oakville Shopping Centre,
Clomel,
Co.Tipperary.
052-26247
Jameswhelanbutchers.com
info@jameswhelanbutchers.com
Good Food Ireland is an industry body which promotes excellence in food tourism.
goodfoodireland.ie/
COMPETITION AUTHORITY?
Are you an authority on competitions? Guess the length of the budget speech and you could win:
- overnight accommodation for 10 people [mid-week] at the four-star Connemara Coast Hotel in Furbo - overlooking Galway Bay - to include full Irish breakfast, lunch, and use of a meeting room. To give you some idea, his speech last year was about 55 minutes long. If several listeners are tied, we'll pick one from a hat.
- email it to thebusiness@rte.ie until noon on Tuesday.
- Entries are not permitted by employees of the Department of Finance. We will announce the winner next Sunday [19th] and we'll put details of the competition on our website.
Programme 5: 5th October 2008
BANKS-AS SAFE AS HOUSES?
In the week that the Government moved to guarantee deposits at the six Irish owned banks and building societies, John took a look back at how events unfolded with the help of four people who were near the action...
Peter Thal Larsen, Correspondent
The Financial Times
London
0044 207 873 3000
www.ft.com
John Murray Browne, Dublin Correspondent
The Financial Times
126 Lower Baggot Street
Dublin 2
01 659 9654
www.ft.com
Colm Keena, Public Affairs Correspondent
The Irish Times
Tara Street
Dublin 2
01 675 8000
www.irishtimes.com
Emer Lang, Davy Stockbrokers
49 Dawson Street
Dublin 2
01 679 7788
www.davy.ie
THE CREDIT CRUNCH - THE UN-PALLETABLE TRUTH
Seamus McGowan is the Managing Director and founder of TPN (the pallet network) which handles palletised freight in Ireland with a network of 21 regional carriers,. It claims to be the largest network in Ireland, with the capacity to handle 5000 pallets of freight per night. Running one of the big freight distribution networks in Ireland from their base in West Dublin, Seamus is not only in a unique position to give an idea of what the recession is doing to business, but is also some-one who needs capital to increase capacity and meet demand, but cannot get that financial backing in the current climate.
Pallet Network
Northwest Business Park
Blanchardstown
Dublin 15
Tel: 01 8219999
Email: sales@tpn.ie
Web.www.tpn.ie
HERD THIS ONE BEFORE?
Gregory Berns is a neuroeconomist at Emory University in Atlanta, who has been studying the brain patterns of people under stress and he has found out that we crave safety in numbers in times of crisis. The herd rules OK!
Gregory S. Berns, MD, PhD
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Emory University School of Medicine
101 Woodruff Circle., Suite 4000
Atlanta, GA 30322
Tel; +1 (404) 727-2556
Email: gberns @emor. edu
Programme 4: 28th September 2008
NEW ECONOMICS - JUST THE OLD ECONOMICS AFTER LIPOSUCTION?
Peter Lunn is an ESRI economist and the author of Basic instincts: Human nature and the new economics (Marshall Cavendish, 2008). A former BBC journalist, Pete has an unusual background for an economist, having originally trained as a neuroscientist. He received a PhD in human perception from the University of London at just 24 years of age. He then spent over a decade in journalism, mostly with BBC Newsnight in England, but also in Ireland, where he was founding editor of NewsTalk, the commercial talk station. After re-qualifying as an economist, his specialty is new economic thinking.
pete.lunn@esri.ie
The Economic and Social Research Institute
Whitaker Square
Sir John Rogerson's Quay
Dublin 2
01 8632000
www.esri.ie
DELICIOUS, OR IS IT 'LEE DISHES'?
John talks to Denise O'Callaghan of Cork bakery and gluten-free specialists, Delicious. Delicious is fully approved by the Coeliac Society of Ireland and recently won a gold award at the prestigious Great Taste Awards 2008, the UK's most authoritative, independent standard for fine food.
Delicious Gourmet Food Store,
Well Road,
Douglas, Cork
Unit 1 Innishmore Industrial Estate,
Ballincollig, Cork.
021 4875780
Info@delicious.ie
www.delicious.ie
SILICON (VALLEY) IMPLANTS FOR DUBLIN
John talked to John Hartnett, Senior Vice-President of Palm, Inc., in California on the Irish Technology Leadership Group (ITLG) about "Silicon Valley comes to Ireland", which takes place on November 18th and 19th at Trinity College, Dublin. Registration details for the event are on the ITLG website ( below) Some of the world leading technology companies including Microsoft, Intel and Cisco are backing the Dublin event.
The ITLG is an independent organisation comprised of a number of high-level technology leaders in Silicon Valley who are Irish or Irish-American and who are committed to helping Ireland address the challenges of embracing new technology opportunities. The Irish Technology Leadership Group is based in Palo Alto, California.
www.itlg.org
Programme 3: 21st September 2008
WHAT A LOAD OF BANKERS
Emer Lang is one of the Senior Investment Analysts at Davy, specialising in banking.. She makes her best guess as to what is going on in the week that the US Government looks like "laundering" maybe a trillion dollars in dodgy mortgages and the Irish Government moved to guarantee depositors up to €100,000 and in the process placed the blame for the world finance crisis where it really belongs.. Liveline..
Davy
Dublin Office
Davy House
49 Dawson Street
Dublin 2
Ireland
Tel: 01 -679-7788
Web: davy.ie
SAVE A PACKET
Stuart Kinsella, is Managing Partner of Newwave Purchasing, and along with Bob Hogan they established Newwave Purchasing in mid 2006. What they do is to save money for Irish businesses by reducing operational costs in key areas such as, Telecoms (Mobile phone costs, Landlines, Broadband), Print, IT costs, Office Stationery and Equipment and Marketing costs.. The company will carry out a free audit of cost areas - and they get their fee from their clients' savings.
Stuart worked as a Senior Executive with Bank of Ireland for 8 years mainly in the Purchasing Dept.
Download or look at their 10 tips for saving money on their own site or here - Click here.
Newwave Purchasing
Tel: 01-6177887
Email: Stuart@newwavepurchasing.com
Web: newwavepurchasing.com
WEAVE YOUR PROBLEMS GOODBYE
Noel Donegan and Luz Java are inventors, having come up with a huge selling craft game, Paper Fx, and more besides. They have just published a new book on their experiences, Weaving Dreams, and are inviting potential inventors to contact them and they share what they have found out along the way.
Mail to Thebusiness@rte.ie or noelandluz@yahoo.com and they promise to give you some advice or encouragement.
Weaving Dreams is published by Poolbeg Press.
Luz Java Limited
Fax: 01 6105324
Email: noeldonegan@luzjava.com
Web: luzjava.com
Programme 2: 14th September 2008
MATCH OF THE DAY? SURELY SOME MISTAKE!
Professor Jimmy Hill is the newly appointed Head of School of Business, National College of Ireland, in Dublin 1. And he is not the former BBC soccer pundit in another guise, so rest assured that it will not be "a business cycle of 2 halves", or the economy will not be "as sick as a parrot", but he does have a fresh take on enterprise in Ireland.
National College of Ireland
Mayor Street, IFSC, Dublin 1
Tel 353 1 4498500
Web: ncirl.ie
SHOP TIL YOU DROP (OUR IMPORT BILL)
Following on the plea from An Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise to shop at home this Christmas, Tom Rea, Director of Guaranteed Irish, the people behind the brand, tells us that even in these globalised times, there is still a role for such organisations..
Guaranteed Irish Ltd, 1 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin 2. Ireland.
Tel: 353 1 6612607
email info@guaranteedirish.ie
web; guaranteedirish.ie
RIVER DEEP, MOUNTAIN HIGH- END JOBS
Fiona O'Carroll is Senior Vice President for Digital Project Development at HMH, the Irish e-learning company ( formerly known as Riverdeep) During the week they announced the creation of 450 jobs over five years at a €350m euro research and development centre, to be located in the greater Dublin area. Enterprise Ireland is providing funding for this, the largest research and development project in the history of the state
HMH, the company behind the project, used to be known as Riverdeep. Founded by Barry O'Callaghan, it was one of the stars of the Celtic Tiger era. Recently a series of mergers created a much expanded company with annual global revenues of $2.5 billion. It has 6,000 employees worldwide, with elearning exports from Ireland estimated at €250m annually. It is hoped this development will increase that figure many times over.
The company said its decision to centralise all its development in the new centre is based on the fact that Dublin provides the best hub located uniquely between east and west.
Ashford House
Tara Street
Dublin 2
Contact:Ciara Dowling
+353 1 2405900
hmlt.hmco.com
AN UPLIFTING TALE
Martin McVicar is managing director of Monaghan based Combilift, the world leader in this technology with 95% of their production exported ,John went to Monaghan to check out this all Irish success story with sales of nearly €90m all over the world. Combilift is due to add another 50 jobs in their factory in Monaghan..And nobody outside a very small circle has even heard of this 10 year old world beating Irish Company
Combilift Ltd
Gallinagh
Monaghan
Co Monaghan
Ireland
+ 353 47 80500
E-mail: info@combilift.com
combilift.com
TEXT POLL
We asked whether it was unpatriotic to go on shopping splurges abroad...and 77% of you thought it was!
Programme 1: 7th September 2008
KILKENNY v. WATERFORD on THE BUSINESS
John Murray went to the "Sunny" South East to dip his toe in the business waters,, and he came back with 10 toes and some good stories.. Those he talked to were;
JMK Goldsmiths
James Mary Kelly is a jeweller, gold and silversmith based in Kilkenny for the last 30 years. James is in the news this week for putting the final touches to the Liam McCarthy Cup for Sunday. The effects of many thousands of hands and hundreds of hurling clubs means the cup needs a little bit of tlc.
Shop:
62 High Street,
Kilkenny,
Ireland.
Shop/Workshop:
JMK Gold and Silversmiths,
Castle Yard,
Kilkenny,
Ireland.
Tel. +353 56 7722300
Email: info@jmkgoldsmiths.com
Web ; www.jmkgoldsmiths.com
Liam Griffin
Liam Griffin is a hotelier with 2 very classy hotels. Hotel Kilkenny and Monart Spa across the border in Wexford. He is also the former Wexford Hurling Manager, and he combines his business insight and hurling nous to give John a complete picture.
Hotel Kilkenny, College Road, Kilkenny, Ireland
T: +353 (0)56 776 2000
E-mail: experience@hotelkilkenny.ie
Web; www.HotelKilkenny.ie
or Monart Spa Hotel
Falconer Hurleys
Aidan Falconer is the owner of the Piltown based specialist hurley makers. His dad, Sonny, and friend Ned Walsh founded the company some 30 years ago and it is one of Ireland's ( and the world's) best known hurley makers.. Aidan gives John a good lash of the ash to send him on his way.
Banagher rd Piltown Kilkenny Co. Kilkenny. (051)643540
Email: admin@falconerhurleys.com
Flahavans
John Flahavan is Chairman of the long established oat milling company, based in Kilmacthomas. In the family now for 6 generations, Flahavans is one of Ireland's most successful family firms, managing to be a household name in Ireland and not being subsumed into some big Agri-biz combine like almost all other family firms around the country. Not a man to give much away, John Flahavan agreed to talk to John on the continuing success of the firm.
E. Flahavan & Sons Limited, Kilnagrange Mills, Kilmacthomas, County Waterford, Ireland.
Telephone: +353-51-294107
E-mail: oatmail@flahavans.com
Web; www.flahavans.com
Waterford Swift Print
A qualified graphic designer, Marcella Meagher set up Swift Print, a small print and design company in Waterford city in 1999. Marcella is a leading advocate of women in business and has some interesting views about how small business is doing in the current climate.
Unit 9D Cleaboy Business Park, Old Kilmeaden Road, Waterford, Co. Waterford
Tel: (051) 334926
Fax: (051) 590884
Mobile: (087) 419 8126
Toll Free:
Web: waterfordswiftprint.com
Email: marcella@waterfordswiftprint.com
When: Saturday 10amPresenter: George Lee
Producer: An Old Yard Production for RTÉ Radio
Contact: thebusiness@rte.ie
Comment Line: On Air: 1850 715 150
Text: 51551,
Form the north Text the word Studio to 80889
Phone: (01) 208 3603
