500 episodes listed below
Irish business before the day starts.
Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam is a fast-moving Irish business bulletin built around headlines, market context, and interviews. Its recent run moves from house-price inflation and Microsoft job cuts to IKEA Ireland, home-care software, EasyJet, and Hungary’s frozen EU funds.
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Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam turns early-morning business radio into a compact briefing on the forces moving Ireland and the wider economy. The rhythm is direct. Headlines arrive quickly, with newspaper and website stories used as a launchpad for market analysis and interviews. Recent episodes show a programme interested in both the number and the reason behind it. A house-price survey becomes a discussion about asking prices, final sale prices, new builds, existing-home sales, and why Irish homes change hands so rarely. A corporate results story becomes a look at IKEA’s Irish performance, collection points, delivery logistics, and consumer caution. A software company interview becomes a practical account of how home-care providers handle recruitment, background checks, scheduling, and frontline information. The show also spends time on bigger economic structure. Conversations with Ian Hyland look at indigenous business, FDI, regulation, nimbyism, competitiveness, and the need for workers to upskill. Market reviews bring in stories such as Microsoft job cuts, AI spending pressure, EasyJet’s possible move off the public market, and the value of iconic brands. European politics enters through economic consequences, including Hungary’s frozen EU funds, budget deficit, stagnation, and deadlines for pandemic recovery money. The tone is businesslike without becoming sealed off from ordinary life. There is room for football asides and weekend chatter, but the programme keeps returning to prices, jobs, profits, policy, and investment. Guests are usually pressed to translate abstractions into operating reality. What does a softer housing inflation rate mean for buyers? What does AI investment mean for job cuts? What does red tape mean for local firms trying to grow? The result is a news-driven business show with a distinctly Irish centre of gravity and a steady awareness of global capital, regulation, and risk.
Made for: For listeners who follow Irish business, markets, housing, corporate news, and policy before the workday begins. It also suits founders, investors, executives, and news-minded professionals who want concise context rather than a long-form lecture.
What sets it apart: The show pairs headline speed with interviews that keep returning to practical consequences: prices, jobs, profits, regulation, logistics, and investment. Its Irish focus is firm, but the frame stretches naturally to Europe, the UK, global markets, and multinational pressure.
Presented by Newstalk's Business Editor Joe Lynam, this 30-minute programme focuses on the key business stories from home and abroad, market analysis, new business innovations and profile interviews. CONVERSATION THAT COUNTS | Ireland’s national independent talk station for news, sport, analysis and entertainment Listen to Newstalk at http://newstalk.com/listenlive | Download the GoLoud app now, the new home for Newstalk
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A practical International Women's Day panel that links workplace change to operations and policy.
Breakfast Business uses International Women's Day to look at how more women in the workforce have shaped Irish business and the economy, then grounds that theme in Deloitte and Irish Rail.
Banking regulation, made operational.
Credit union strategy in practical detail.
Joe Lynam hosts Tuesday's business news, previewing interviews with the Banking Federation and technology in firefighting.
Sharon Donnery discusses the ECB's focus on banking supervision amid Middle East conflicts and geopolitical risks, addressing interest rates, economic growth, and skepticism about a competitiveness mandate.
Kevin Connolly discusses his role as Quality Manager at Connolly Organic Eggs, covering their supply to major supermarkets, the impact of inflation and war on costs, and the traceability of their eggs.
Host Joe Lynam marks International Women's Day with a panel featuring Mary Considine (CEO of Irish Rail), Eimear Higgins (Minister of State), and Kate English (Deloitte).
This episode reviews Friday's business news, covering topics like the Hungarian economy, care home sector, and economic growth analysis with economist Austin Hughes.
This episode analyzes the Hungarian economy post-election, focusing on the potential release of frozen EU funds under new leadership and the urgent challenges of budget deficits and demographic issues.
This episode features an interview with Neil McGough, CEO of OneTouch Health, discussing how their software platform helps care providers manage recruitment, training, and scheduling to improve home care services.
This episode discusses IKEA's 131% jump in operating profits in Ireland, exploring factors like consumer investment in home improvements and the company's strategic expansion of collection points.
This episode covers key business stories including Ryanair's fuel supply concerns due to the Middle East conflict and Allbirds' strategic shift from sustainable footwear to AI infrastructure.
This episode previews upcoming segments on Irish business survival, PwC's insolvency report, cargo theft, market updates including tariffs and Iran, and headlines about Tesla, Six Nations finances, and diesel/petrol car sales.
This episode features an interview with Sharon Donnery, a member of the Supervisory Board at the European Central Bank, discussing the ECB's focus on banking supervision amid the Middle East conflict and its potential impacts on interest rates and economic growth.
Kevin Connolly, Quality Manager at Connolly Organic Eggs, discusses the company's supply of organic and free-range eggs to major supermarkets like Marks and Spencer, the impact of inflation and animal feed costs, and the importance of traceability in the egg industry.