That Great Business Show

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 son or daughter, making a living from coffee. Alan gives it BIG thumbs up...

His 'hire...

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 talks about seriously tough times that he and his fellow director, is wife, have ...

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 believes that there are many more opportunities for new ocean based businesses waiting to be e...

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 of Industry to dissect decades of boardroom drama, dodgy decisions, and the oversi...

That Great Business Show – Episode 252

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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 live our lives to. Should they get it? We find out.

His 'hire in a heartbeat', Jarlath ...

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 micro algae made fuel.

It’s a remarkable story of how green chemistry and robotics are cl...

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 entered a competition with the store, but she lost. But won. She explains.

Oh, she's lookin...

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 commit invoice fraud. It can even happen to staff payment, where the staff bank de...

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 employees to Ireland. He has seen a very large increase in 'others', not direct...

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 clubs, organisations, societies the GAA 2,500 clubs worldwide. He's also targetting ...

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 issues. Fun fact - you can ship a sofa from Emo, Co. Laois to Mexico City in 28 da...

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 in your family, opportunities in the creative industries to make mi$$ions...and one t...

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 AND they’re pioneering digital twin technologies – something you need to know ab...

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 conquered Dublin he's then heading to Galway, Limerick and Cork as well as Belfast a...

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 other AI systems can be as high as 25% according to John). Their product is aimed part...

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 and #Ireland.

Construction? Check. Agriculture? Yup. Telecoms? Absolutely. You c...

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 number that is about to explode in size). They use gaming software to digitise traini...

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 Ryder Cup comes to Limerick.

We have two bosses in studio with us, the Irish boss...

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 the Longford LEO who helped them create their enterprise. They're now looking fo...