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.
Evelyn Kelly, the founder of Orphan Drug Consulting, works in an industry fraught with difficult decisions. In this podcast, she talks to Rosanna Cooney about her company's role in bringing medicines to market as quickly as possible, the growth in the orphan drug market, and the challenges of equitable access to medication.
In this episode of Experience, the Republic of Ireland manager Stephen Kenny talks to Dion Fanning about his single-mindedness, why trophies have never been how he judges success, and dealing with criticism.
In episode two of Energy Matters, we examine how individuals and businesses can be more efficient in their energy use. Ian Kehoe is joined by Muireann Lynch, Senior Research Officer at ESRI, and Madeleine Murray, CEO of Change By Degrees to look at ways we can reduce our energy usage and bills, and the shifts we need to make to our habits. This series is sponsored by Pinergy.
The restaurant and hospitality sectors are in the eye of a storm, with a slew of insolvencies and closures expected in the next twelve months. Damien Grey, the two-star Michelin chef, and owner of Liath, talks to Rosanna Cooney about the misguided perception of a restaurant as anything other than a profit-seeking business, his obsession with daily accounts and when to let go and walk away with integrity.
In this week's episode of Experience, Eoin Ó Broin talks to Dion Fanning about trying to start a band together, how Blackrock College gave him confidence and conflict resolution in a new Ireland.
By his own admission, Aidan Connolly is an unusual leader. Over the past 30 years, he has worked across major corporations, greenfield start-ups, high-growth environments, and turnaround missions all over the world. He has invested in, or worked with, more than a dozen start-ups, and has evaluated the pitch decks of hundreds more. In this podcast with Ian Kehoe, he talks about the nine key lessons he has learned from start-up success over his lengthy and varied career – and what it means for all of us.
In this week's episode of Experience, Mary Coughlan talks to Dion Fanning about how her life began when she stopped drinking, how she has adapted to success over the years and why she still sometimes bears a grudge.
Energy Matters is a new podcast series which examines in detail the true state of the Irish energy sector, tackling everything from the war in Ukraine to the future of transport. In this first episode, Ian Kehoe talks to Enda Gunnell, CEO of Pinergy, and Stephen Kinsella, about how we've reached the position we're in, the structural deficiencies that have got us here and where we go next. The series is sponsored by Pinergy.
The business of recruitment is inextricably tied to the economy. In this podcast, Ed Rossiter, the founder of recruitment company Phoenix, talks to Rosanna Cooney about the slow tanking of the tech sector, the globalisation of talent, and finding recruitment professionals who are worth their salt.
Emma Donoghue talks to Dion Fanning in the latest episode of Experience about her new novel Haven and why the death of her father Denis Donoghue has spurred the author of Room and The Wonder on to want to achieve more.
