When Muhammad Ali visited Dublin to fight Al Blue Lewis he famously asked where do all the black people hang out? He was told there weren’t any. Dave Hannigan has written a marvelous book about that week in Ireland. He talks to Dion Fanning about Ali’s time in Dublin and the people who made it happen.
Meredith Greif is a sociology professor at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, USA. Her work focuses on the symbiotic relationship between tenants and landlords. "The point of my work," she told Sean Keyes in this week's podcast, "is to show that caring about landlords is important because it means caring about tenants. Landlords' behaviour is so consequential that if you want to help the renter, you have to think about what's happening to the landlord. And it's not condoning or looking away from bad landlord behaviour".
Seven years ago, Sinead Doherty read the tea leaves and predicted that the future of work would be impermanent, flexible, and based on a contractor model. Her company Fenero, which offers tax and payroll solutions for contractors and freelancers, has since reaped the benefits. In this podcast, she talks to Rosanna Cooney about expanding into India and accountancy's digital transformation.
Theresa Reidy from UCC and Gary Murphy from DCU discuss the last two years of this government as Leo Varadkar returns as Taoiseach and why these years may be the ones that define Varadkar as a politician.
In episode 6 of Energy Matters, Ian Kehoe is joined by Jonah Goldman, founder of North Cascades Strategies, an organisation that works with innovators, advocates, and governments to invest in a net zero future.
Jonah was previously CEO of Breakthrough Energy, a Bill Gates-backed venture designed to accelerate innovation in sustainable energy.
Jonah discusses what needs to be done to reach net zero, what technologies need to be invested in, and where we are falling down on that journey.
This series is sponsored by Pinergy.
French businessman Richard Dujardin lived in Ireland for eight years and won the first operating contract for the Luas. He now chairs NetworkIrlande, the cross-border business group that recently held an awards ceremony in Paris to highlight companies taking part in the current boom in trade and investment between the two countries. Thomas Hubert was there and he spoke with Dujardin as well as two of the winners, Danone Ireland’s managing director Killian Barry and Martin O’Donnell, commercial director with the ag-tech start-up Terra NutriTech. They discussed silver linings from Brexit, shifting export patterns and perceptions between the France and Ireland – as well as the value of the Irish pub to business diplomacy.
David Donoghue headed the Irish side of the Anglo-Irish secretariat. His book One Good Day details the negotiations and tensions on the way to the Good Friday Agreement. In this podcast, he talks to Dion Fanning about how the personalties were as important as the policy, as well as the threats made on his own life.
From a weekend hobby stall in Temple Bar, Margaret O'Rourke has built MoMuse into an undercover success story. She talks to Rosanna Cooney about building her jewellery business organically without advertising, and the decision to bring her husband Paul O'Rourke into the business.
This week, Ireland has been talking about Sean Quinn and the RTÉ documentary, Quinn Country. In 2007, Tom Lyons went to the Slieve Russell Hotel and heard Quinn deliver a speech in which he reflected on his life but which also foreshadowed much of what was to come.
This weekend, in a special podcast which includes excerpts from that speech never previously broadcast, Tom Lyons and Ian Kehoe talk to Dion Fanning and reflect on Quinn's life and times and the themes that have been present through his rise and fall.
Denmark has long been a superpower when it comes to renewable energy. But what can we learn from their experience? In the latest episode of Energy Matters, Ian Kehoe is joined by Lise Holmegaard Larsen of State of Green, a Danish public-private body tackling climate change, to understand the journey Denmark has been on, what policies have been put in place, and how countries such as Ireland can catch up. This series is sponsored by Pinergy.
Is the recent wave of job cuts by technology companies a structural shift or a necessary realignment? The Currency’s Chief Economics Writer Stephen Kinsella and Senior Correspondent Thomas Hubert join Editor Ian Kehoe to discuss Ireland’s response to the tech slump - including the opportunities arising from it.
