Tuesday's business news review along with Joe Lynam,

There aren’t many kitchens in Ireland that don’t have devices or machines made by DeLonghi. The Italian coffee machine-maker also owns global brands such as Kenwood and Braun. They have benefited from the surge in popularity of frothy coffees. 

Susan Coleman is the Chief Executive of Delonghi Ireland and Susan joined Joe this morning on the show.

You’ve heard of the Cat laughs in Kilkenny and you may have heard of Kilcenomics which merges comedy with Economics but now you may need to get your head around comedy and the legal profession because this coming weekend will be the first Kilkenny Law Festival. The idea is to bring the law to a wider audience and perhaps dispel some of its reputation for stuffiness and being aloof.

One of the main organisers is Mark Tottenham, who presents the podcast: The Fifth Court and Mark joined Joe on the show this morning,

Monday's big business stories along with Joe Lynam and Ross Mould.

Artificial intelligence is fuelling a rise in hard to detect bots, that now make up more than half of global internet traffic. That's according to the 2025 Imperva Bad Bot Report.

Speaking to Emmet this morning was Rob Elliss, Vice President of EMEA for Thales Cybersecurity Products. 

Aidan Donnelly from Davy takes a look at Friday's business new headlines along with Emmet Oliver.

The UK and US have agreed trade deal terms with Keir Starmer's government agreeing to concessions on American food and agriculture to ease tariffs on car exports  

 Speaking to Emmet Oliver this morning with more on this was Professor of Finance Valerio Poti, Academic Director of the UCD Smurfit School Doctoral Program and Doctoral Research Centre.

Sinead Donovan used to chair Grant Thornton under whose tenure the consultants went from 60 to 3000 staff.  Sinead Donovan was also the president of Chartered Accountants Ireland as it merged with CPA Ireland and now she’s with the headhunters Barden as a non Executive Director. 

I’ve asked Sinead to join us to talk about what boardrooms in Ireland should be thinking about amid some of the most uncertain economic environments since Covid shut us all down 5 years ago. 

This time 5 years ago most of us were working from home and amazingly it worked. Technology enabled us to do jobs without being face to face.  But now that the virus has abated many employers want their staff in the office.  But they have to offer incentives and make the workplace more attractive - especially Gen Zs.  Savills have carried out a comprehensive survey of what people want at work and how much commuting they will tolerate.  

To discuss the survey findings was Shane Duffy is a Director with Savills Ireland. 

Thursday's business news headlines along with Joe Lynam.