Following the loss of her Dáil seat, former Minister for Europe and Renua founder Lucinda Creighton has made the switch to business. Her new company, Vulcan Consulting, "offers specialist advice to growing businesses and multinational companies on complex domestic and EU regulation". On today's Business Podcast, Lucinda talks about the aftermath of her election defeat, deciding to go it alone with a new company, and her views on Brexit and the Apple tax ruling.

And in week two of our series profiling the finalists of the EY Entrepreneur of the Year awards, we speak with Lesley Codd of Codd Mushrooms, Louise Grubb of Q1 Scientific and Noel Moran of Prepaid Financial Services.