For professional athletes, retirement doesn’t come in the form of a gradual career peak—it arrives suddenly, often through injury or physical decline. Unlike those in other careers who can steadily build toward financial security, many athletes find themselves facing uncertainty in their early 30s. In this episode of Sports Matters, former rugby players Niall Woods and Marty Moore discuss the challenges of transitioning out of the game, from financial instability to the loss of identity and structure. Speaking to Ian Kehoe, they explore the psychological and practical difficulties of life after professional sport and the importance of preparation for the next chapter. Sports Matters is sponsored by Whitney Moore.
Sonia Neary co-founded Wellola with the aim of providing tools for patients to be monitored and cared for at home, rather than in hospitals. The company is now working with the NHS, HSE and VHI and forecasting revenues of €25m within five years. In this podcast, Neary talks to Rosanna Cooney about the future of healthcare in Europe, where trained professionals and healthcare settings are a finite resource under increasingly immense pressure.
The life and death of Joe Campbell - and his family's quest for justice - is the subject of a major investigation on The Currency. In this podcast, journalist Phoebe Greenwood and Joe Campbell's son Joe Jr talk to Dion Fanning about the case, the British government's plan for an amnesty for Troubles-related offences which might deny them justice, and how their father's murder affected the eight children of Joe and Rosemary Campbell.
Scooters are being hyped as an integral part of the carbon-neutral cities of the future, but they come with problems too. In this podcast, Andrew Fleury speaks to Rosanna Cooney about Luna, his Brian O’Driscoll backed software start-up that aims to solve safety issues with e-scooters.
Fine Gael have never recovered from their slump in the 2020 election and remain in the low twenties in the polls. Gary Murphy has written a piece for The Currency on the party this weekend and in this podcast he discusses the party's past and future with Fintan Drury and Dion Fanning.
David Jeffreys co-founded ActionPoint, a digital transformation business, in 2005. Since then, it has been behind the modernised passport renewal system as well as a technology driven passport system for cows. In this podcast with Rosanna Cooney, the Limerick native talks about Ireland's future as a leader in the digital economy, being acquired by Viatel and the future of the knowledge economy.
After the London private equity firm Elysian Capital made its first acquisition in Ireland three years ago, it rolled out its model where a local partner lives and works on the ground in each investment destination. Laura McCoy has been Elysian's Irish partner for just one year, and the acquisition of Fastway this month is her second deal in this job. She tells Thomas Hubert how she and the firm connected, and where they fit in the wave of private equity investment targeting Ireland.
Stephen McNulty founded Ambisense in 2014, when the cleantech label was putting investors off. The Dublin company develops analytics software to generate useful environmental management information from gas and water contamination data, and soon from flood defences. Having raised over €5 million to date, it now has a range of products ready to take on three key markets.
Pandemonium, by Jack Horgan-Jones and Hugh O’Connell, brings readers inside the rooms where these power dynamics played out during the greatest challenge the state faced. While the pandemic is the backdrop, the book’s real achievement is that it tells a story of how government works that will stand the test of time.
Ed Brophy speaks to the authors about what the book tells us about government and "the unknown man" who shaped Ireland's pandemic response.
Paul Flynn and Dion Fanning are joined by former Mayo footballer Conr Mortimer to talk about the comments made by club footballer of the year Eugene Branagan as well as the ongoing problems with the new intercounty season.
Catherine Sheridan is chief operations officer at EI H2, a young Cork-based company on a mission to find the best Irish sites to convert excess renewable electricity into hydrogen fuel gas. She tells Thomas Hubert about the role of the technology in the wider energy transition, the choice Ireland faces between simply meeting its energy needs or turning renewables into a revenue stream for generations and what makes candidates click when she recruits new workers.
