The energy provider Flogas will be providing all of Emerald Park’s renewable energy from now on. The deal involves solar panels, recharging points and guaranteed sourced renewable energy for the adventure park formerly known as Tayto Park.  

Joining Joe on the show was John Rooney the Chief Executive of Flogas. 

Yesterday Avant money launched a new mortgage product called Flex Mortgages.  It’s the latest offering from Avant which is owned by the Spanish company BankInter which is deepening its investment in Ireland every year and putting it up to the pillar banks. Brian Lande, is the Head of Mortgages for Avant joined Joe this morning.

Thursday's business news headlines along with Joe Lynam.

Inward investment has helped make Ireland one of the wealthiest and most prosperous countries in Europe.  But FDI has been turned on its head by Donald Trump who has started a global trade war and aims to punish nations who he thinks are taking advantage of the US tax system.

So attracting overseas investment is getting harder.  What will Ireland’s IDA do?  Michael Lohan the Chief Executive of the IDA joined Joe on the show this morning to discuss.

The US remains the biggest single market for its goods exports - notably in the pharmaceutical sector. But the threat on that sector from the White House has started to undermine the Irish economy according to the latest Central bank quarterly assessment.    The report said that geopolitical and tariff concerns have blurred the picture for the Irish economy. But it says that domestic growth will continue at a decent clip and real wages will continue to rise. 

Joe spoke Robert Kelly, the Director of Economics and Statistics with the Central bank of Ireland and began by asking about overall growth. 

Wednesday's business news headlines along with Joe Lynam.

Open AI, Gemini, Grok and latterly Deepseek.  All services we had never heard of three years ago but now very much in the lexicon.  But which one is the best and most accurate and even most honest?  An Irish AI company Calypso has assessed them all with their new software called Argentic Warfare. It is also used to stress test the vulnerabilities of AI systems by pretending to be a hacker.  

Speaking to Joe this morning was Donnchadh Casey, Chief Executive of Calypso AI. 

Tuesday's business news headlines along with Newstalk's Business Editor Joe Lynam.

The Irish Times did a feature recently on why everything appears to be more expensive here than most other European nations.  Our rents are the highest in the EU and our restaurants and hotels are 28% higher than the average in Europe.  Our Energy costs are 18% higher.  But Energy companies are making huge strides to cut their carbon footprints. 

They're also trying to encourage sustainability in the workplace by sponsoring that award in the forthcoming Changemaker awards being hosted by Newstalk. Stephen Gallagher is the Managing Director of SSE Airtricity, proud sponsors of the Sustainable Workplace category for the Newstalk Changemaker award.

So the evenings are getting longer and the temperature is rising a bit and so the annual spring clean is underway in many homes.  But does that extend to our technology?  Shouldn't we also clear out the old unused files and perhaps even throw out out of date phones, printers, cables and software?

One person who certainly thinks so is Ciara O’Brien is the technology correspondent with the Irish Times.