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Episode 263 That Great Business Show with Conall O Móráin Why Everyone Wants In to TCD - '...because there's no future for libraries in Florida'. TCD Provost, Linda Doyle, on 'huge' U.S. Student Surge, Global Competition & The Future of Higher Ed That Great Business Show — winner of the UCD Smurfit Business School ‘Podcast of the Year’ — takes a ma…
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E262 That Great Business Show With thanks to De Facto Shaving Oil Pubs are closing at record rates (150 a year since Covid), but Feargal Chambers of the Four Provinces Pub & Brewery is doing the opposite — expanding. From zoology teacher to publican and brewer, his story is a masterclass in resilience, local loyalty, and turning community into a bu…
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This week on That Great Business Show Episode 261 (with thanks to our brilliant sponsor De Facto Shaving Oil): Every weekend in Ireland, players are getting knocked about—whether it’s the crunch of a rugby scrum, the thump of a GAA tackle, or a soccer header that rattles the skull. Concussions happen. Too many go unseen, unreported, untreated—and t…
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E260 That Great Business Show UCD Smurfit 'Podcast of the Year' Brian Kenny, CEO, Momntum Laila is her name. She is 'owned' by very early stage startup Momntum. She's an AI chatbot. She remembers you, your foibles and your troubles. She brings chatbots to an absolutely different level. Clever lady she is, she even remembers that you may have mentio…
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E259 That Great Business Show With thanks to De Facto Shaving Oil, the world's finest. The newspaper industry is 'existentially challenged'. So says Alan English, former editor of the Sunday Independent, Ireland's biggest selling newspaper. Though he says that 'end of print is some way off', he does hint that newspaper may end up as a weekend leisu…
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E258 That Great Business Show UCD Smurfit, 'Podcast of the Year'. David Malone, CEO, Irish League of Credit Unions, new SME loans from your Credit Union. New rules mean Credit Unions can treble the amount they lend to businesses. You could end up lending money to yourself, as every borrower must become a CU member (but David is very, very keen to b…
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Episode 257 That Great Business Show with Conall O Morain UCD Smurfit Business School, 'Podcast of the Year' 'Moving away from media' In the 1970s and 1980s, the Irish Management Institute, the IMI, annual conference was THE BIG business event in Ireland. Think Tech Summit, before tech. Held in Killarney every year it would attract 800 top executiv…
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E256 That Great Business Show Everything you ever wanted to know about a coffee business but were afraid to ask, including how to sell a cup of coffee for €20. Alan Andrews, Founder, Old Barracks Coffee Company explains all. This is absolute essential listening for anyone going into any kind of business, but particularly if you see yourself, or a s…
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E255 That Great Business Show Longford based Butler Manufacturing Services serves customers in 60plus countries across the world. They manufacture clever sewage systems that has won them business across the world, in Iraq during war, Alaska and most recently in Monserrat. And how do they do it? By being the best. Seamus Butler who runs the business…
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Episode 254 Eugene Garrihy spent more than a quarter of a century in construction, but the Great Crash saw that come to an end. He took to the sea, as founder of Dublin Bay Cruises, a business that brings tens of thousands of visitors around Dublin Bay. You can also commute from Dun Laoghaire to downtown Dublin, if you have the time. Eugene believe…
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Title: Episode 253 – What CEO was referred to as an 'odious little shit'? No, it's not who you think it is. What makes a CEO? Vision, charisma, brilliance… or just a thick skin and a knack for corporate politics? On That Great Business Show, Episode 253, Conall O Móráin sits down with the authors of The CEO: The Rise and Fall of Britain’s Captains …
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That Great Business Show – Episode 252 Brought to you by De Facto Shaving Oil – the world’s best shaving oil (and we’ve tried them all). On this episode; Victor Finn, CEO of IMRO, wants Ireland to give musicians a break – tax breaks, grants, the lot. He’s got a new report and a big ask for government to back the people who make the music we all liv…
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E251 That Great Business Show We do business differently. UCD Smurfit Business School, 'Podcast of the Year'. Ruairi McLoughlin, Anaula, raising cash to replace carbon fuels. He's on Twitter first name terms with Elon, that he met when he was pitching his project at Space X. 'An awkward person'. Ruairi says that we could replace ALL diesel with mic…
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E250 UCD Smurfit Business School Podcast of the Year Aine Kennedy and Billy Kennedy, of the Smooth Company. Aine is a Tik Tok queen, with millions and millions of views, with help from GRANDAD Billy. Aine doesn't hold back, she discusses her business journey, warts and all on her journey to 'world domination'. She's stocked in Brown Thomas having e…
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Episode 249 That Great Business Show Bad news. Thousands of ordinary businesses are being hit for small, but significant ransoms, via online hackers. Yes, they're targetting your small business. Every invoice, every payment, every piece of your business information is now in the hands of the Bad Actors. Once they have your invoices, they're out to …
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E248 That Great Business Show with Conall O Móráin David Dowling, Cronin Group & Eilis Quinlan, Eilis Quinlan Accountants Quadrupling' of Americans leaving Trump's USA for Ireland - according to David Dowling, Commercial Director at The Cronin Group, one of Ireland's largest moving specialists. One of a number of subsidiaries specialises in moving …
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Can you herd cats? Of course you can't, unless of course you're John Hyland, founder of Clubspot. John's business is an overnight success after five years. He has raised €2 million raised and he says a further €2m could be on the way. He has a team of 31, and that will grow to 40-50 by the end of the year. He's targeting, amongst many/any other clu…
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E246 That Great Business Show Take a seat. Here's Ciaran Finane, one half of the Finline Furniture team. They are one of Ireland's finest furniture manufacturers, shipping to 65 countries worldwide, including diplomatic residences. That's not straightforward. Every piece of furniture has to be vetted for listening devices and other James Bond like …
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E245 That Great Business Show Police drummer, Stewart Copeland on the need for creative industries to embrace AI. His 'Secret Mission' project, his new book on how to be a rockstar, when he realised he would be famous, working again with Sting, hiring David Grohl as well as Paul McGuinness, the vain futility of awards, how to spot a musical prodigy…
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E244 That Great Business Show with Conall O Morain UCD Smurfit Business School 'Podcast of the Year' Jason McLaughlin. TPS Plastics. Based in Drumcollegher, Limerick, TPS is one of those fascinating companies we love to feature. Hidden in plain sight, they are producing high-precision components for the medical, automotive, and aerospace sectors AN…
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E243 That Great Business Show The role of delivery in the food business - "I like horses but I'm not going to ride a horse to work every day" - that's Sean Murray, founder of Hosted Kitchens, explaining that he loves food, but he doesn't love cooking for himself. He says his 'dark kitchen' business is only going one way - up, up and up. When he has…
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E242 That Great Business Show We bring you the 'Absolute Truth', as Florida HQ'd Partsol announce they've moved their operational HQ to Ireland. John Callahan, CTO Partsol has just landed in Ireland with a very, very interesting twist on AI - they search for information in a very different way, hoping to expunge mistakes (some error rates with othe…
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Episode 241 That Great Business Show with Conall Ó Móráin featuring Alan Browne, CEO of Soarvo, a company born from nerd rage! Too much juicy 3D data, not enough ways to actually use it? Soarvo has fixed that. Think less head-scratching, more wow-factor maps. KOREC Group’s New BFF, they've teamed up to spread their geospatial gospel across the #UK …
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Episode 240 That Great Business Show Geoff Allen, co-founder Mersus Technologies - a VR company (not a training company!) that is changing how we do business in so many sectors. What they do is truly amazing. We know. We've seen their work. Having recently won a place on the Meta app store they're only one click away from 24,000,000 headsets (a num…
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Episode 239 That Great Business Show Laurent Germain, CEO, Egis Worldwide Steven Preece, CEO, Egis Ireland. Egis, the engineering company, the largest engineering company in Ireland, and they gave you The Port Tunnel, the Jack Lynch Tunnel, the Limerick Tunnel...and so, so much more. They're also making sure the Adare bypass happens before the Ryde…
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E238 That Great Business Show Thanks to De Facto Shaving Oil Lithuanians William and Anthony explain how they ended up in Longford, set up a business called Tolvita together, importing and selling coated steel cladding that is ideal for home construction. Originally they came to 'collect a few bob' but a chat with MicroFinance Ireland led them to t…
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E237 That Great Business Show UCD Smurfit School, 'Podcast of the Year' With thanks to De Facto Shaving Oil, the world's best shaving oil. Alex Harris, co-founder, CogniStream Turning market research on its head, using AI bots that sound more human than humans, creating campaigns in hours not weeks or months, cutting the cost by 90%, affordable for…
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E236 That Great Business Show UCD Smurfit Business School 'Podcast of the Year' Jacqueline and Bernie Ffrench Investing in employee wellness isn’t just a trend—it’s a business advantage. A healthier, more engaged workforce drives productivity, innovation, and success. Here’s why: When employees feel physically and mentally well, they bring higher e…
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Episode 235 That Great Business Show UCD Smurfit Business School, 'Podcast of the Year' An investment company that says they’re aiming to defy the "accepted norm", by flipping 70% failure, to a 70% success rate MARTIN DUFFY is General Partner with Hibernia-Lab, at Dublin based early stage venture labs ecosystem that, inter alia, conducts 'thorough …
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E234 That Great Business Show UCD Smurfit Business School, 'Podcast of the Year' A special episode recorded in Longford, thanks to the Longford Local Enterprise Office that is keen to highlight the international diversity of businesses being set up in Longford, with budding entrepreneurs from all over the world being drawn to the county. On this ep…
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E233 That Great Business Show A banker who wanted to run a car sharing business but turned to lens making instead. Simon Forsyth is part of the Lir Optic team at UCD Nova, the UCD spin out lab. They've come up with a 'world beating lens' they believe. It shifts shape by applying an electric current to it. That means no little motors to drive lenses…
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That Great Business Show with Conall Ó Móráin – Episode 232 Ireland’s Best Business Podcast - UCD Smurfit Business School 'Podcast of the Year' brings you two incredible stories of entrepreneurship and innovation! 💼 From Milan’s Theatres to Dublin’s Boardrooms Meet Ilaria Eugenia Ferri, the ‘Mary Poppins’ of business—a Virtual Assistant who helps c…
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E231 That Great Business Show Michael Guerin, founder Imvizar, making tourist attractions eh, more attractive. And, his second business, Lureo, will make anyone a Hollywood director. It's Canva for 3D videos. He travels. A lot. But that's business. And he expects his team to rock up to the office. Even the ones who live in Lisbon and Marseille. And…
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E230 That Great Business Show UCD Smurfit 'Podcast of the Year' IKEA? Check. Jysk? Check. AJ Products. ??? Yes, it's another hugely successful Nordic brand, available across 19 countries, including Ireland. Tanya Cawley is the Ireland country boss and she tells us what's in the secret sauce. Not surprisingly, attention to detail is very, very impor…
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E229 That Great Business Show UCD Smurfit Business School, 'Podcast of the Year' A 'handy number'? Some Non-Executive Directors, NED, can earn €80k for a monthly board meeting...some can earn twice that. Carol Bolger, formerly senior executive at Ulster Bank and Faculty member at Institute of Directors Ireland, teaches how to become a director at t…
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E228 That Great Business Show Economist Alan McQuaid sees the end of the EU...and what's happening to the UK economy??? He wants our Government to spend some of the Apple billions on a massive airlift of SMEs on trade missions worldwide. He says SMEs should get more grants, rent rebates and insurance subsidies. 'No Dáil politician should be a a mul…
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E227 That Great Business Show UCD Smurfit Business School, 'Podcast of the Year' We know about XXX businesses, the ones that sell the dodgy stuff, but how about 50X businesses??? The 50X Programme from SME Matters connects you and your business with like-minded business owners in a peer-to-peer learning environment that’s transformative. Damien O'B…
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E226 That Great Business Show UCD Smurfit Business School, 'Podcast of the Year' Jim Campion, the man who didn't pivot, but who made a fortune (allegedly) by selling his eponymous insurance business to UK insurance consolidator PIB. Jim served a very, very short time in the Civil Service, but then got into the insurance business - a business from w…
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E225 That Great Business Show UCD Smurfit Business School 'Podcast of the Year'. Ronan Dunne, former boss of Verizon in the US, current board member Marks and Spencer (who he says are in the 'experience business'), Chair of Six Nations Rugby (and much, much more), on $10,000 sports tickets, introducing Irish businesses to his network, being a mento…
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E224 That Great Business Show Ireland's TOP Business Podcast, winner UCD Smurfit's Podcast of the Year How to get the top job in corporate USA. Ronan Dunne on how and why he moved from head of O2 in the UK, to head of Verizon Wireless in the US, heading a team of 120,000 people. Plenty of candid insights on the big differences between US and Europe…
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Episode 223 That Great Business Show UCD Smurfit Business School, 'Podcast of the Year' Top Tip. Use Reddit...yes, Reddit. It has helped What's Exposed grow. Learn how. 'You're hacked'. It's happening all the time. It's happening to business big and small. It happened to a recent guest on the show and it cost that business many, many thousands of E…
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Episode 222. That Great Business Show. UCD Smurfit 'Business Podcast of the Year' Cheesy, yet true. That’s what Noel Rowland Founder & Managing Director, wrote on the company website, ‘When we founded Churchfield, we wanted to create a company and service that our parents, friends and local community could be proud of.’ Churchfield is a full-servic…
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Episode 221 Nigel O'Reilly is without a doubt one of the finest jewellery makers in the world. A one time precision tool maker making mouldings his future wife told him to follow his dreams and become a master craftsman. Luckily for the world, he listened. His works of art (we'll never refer to them as mere 'products') are now selling worldwide for…
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E220 That Great Business Show We have found a lovely growing business called Tranzaura, born in 2010 and based in Limerick, that has developed fleet management software that is keeping transport fleets in Ireland, the UK and Australia on the road...including two thirds of London's red buses, 3,500 HGV's belonging to the UK's largest truck company, …
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E219 That Great Business Show VisionR (fka Glimpse) is a business that counts. That's what it does. It counts millions and millions of people every month. It tells retailers where their customers are spending their time, where they're not spending time, where browsing is converting into sales, what different ages and genders are doing on the shop f…
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E218 That Great Business Show President elect Donald Trump says that tariffs 'is the best word in the English language', as he threatens to apply a 10% tariff (customs tax) on all imports into the US. Ireland is the biggest European exporter to the US on a per capita basis. "This is a very serious moment" - Dan O'Brien, Chief economist at the Insti…
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Episode 217: That Great Business Show Release Date: November 7, 2024 Host: Conall O'Morain Welcome to That Great Business Show, the podcast where we bring you tips, insights, and opportunities to fuel your business journey. Each episode, we feature high-flying entrepreneurs and industry leaders, and today is no exception. In this episode, we’re div…
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E216 That Great Business Show Sharon Yourell Lawlor has mayonnaise degree - or at least she wrote a dissertation on the marketing of mayonnaise. She wasn't so much interested in the taste or formula of it, but in what made shoppers choose Hellman's over Goodalls. She's now a world expert in how and why people shop, covering every type of shop. On t…
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🌟 Check out Episode 215 of That Great Business Show with Conall Ó Móráin! 🌟 Dive into fascinating discussions about spy satellites and ice cream from a Cork farm - with world ambitions - once #Lidl re-orders. Perfect blend of innovation and deliciousness! 🍦🛰️ Featuring Ubotica - aiming big to own Space AI and The Good Dairy Company also aiming big,…
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Episode 214 That Great Business Show Brendan Fitzpatrick RESTART JOURNEY – If you've had enough of your job, or your business is getting you down and you crave a change, then Brendan is the man for you. In 20 minutes he'll explain what you should and could do to make change happen. It could be life changing. Literally. His hire in a heartbeat? Spor…
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