The Business

Adam Dalton is a different type of tech entrepreneur than those that are all over the news stateside. He sold his first company, Robotify, for millions in his early twenties. He’s now on to his second company, Jamango, which is hoping to change the face of gaming.

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We caught up with Tony Foley, Emeritus Associate Professor of Economics at DCU Business school to discuss the Trump Tariffs.

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With today marking the first day of February, the start of Celtic Spring, and St. Brigid’s Day. Does it feel like spring among the midwives, brewers, poets and farmers that Brigid is the patron of? Siofra Mulqueen has been finding out what gives those in these professions a spring in their step.

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Her famous surname is synonymous with art through her father Lucien Freud and psychoanalysis through her great-grandfather, Sigmund Freud. Bella Freud’s fashion label and podcast have been hugely successful with inspirations ranging from Jane Birkin and David Bowie to her mother, Bernadine, who perhaps had the greatest influence on her.

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With the news that President Trump is moving forward with tariffs on some of America’s largest trading partners, Canada, Mexico and China. We caught up with former script writer for President George W. Bush, David Frum to discuss the tariffs.

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In the tragic aftermath of Storm Éowyn, one man lost his life, and thousands of homes and businesses remain without power and water. How long will it take affected businesses to return to normal? David Broderick, head of the Small Firms Association joins us to discuss.

The image of the brash, bullish Americans striving forward contrasted sharply with the staid, dinosaur-like Eurocrats strangled by regulation at the World Economic Forum this week. Economist John Fitzgerald joins us to discuss if this US ascent could be a wake-up call for Europe.

This week, Donald Trump’s Diet Coke button is back in the Oval Office. Gen-Z and Millenials seem to be all about the H2O, but communist Fiona Looney wonders if these generations have gone too far with this hydration obsession.

During his inaugural address this week, Donald Trump promised Americans the sun, moon, stars, and…Mars. Is the dream of planting the stars and stripes on our neighboring planet likely to become a reality? Siofra Mulqueen has been finding out.

On the surface, their chosen fields could not be more different. John Teeling has created one of Ireland’s most successful and recognisable whiskey brands, and his daughter Emma Teeling is a zoologist who has devoted her life to studying bats and how they could be the key to unlocking human aging.