The Business

It's a week into 2023 and our reporter Siofra Mulqueen has been investigating if people have stuck to their New Years Resolutions. Siofra has been exploring the phenomenon of packaged positivity and taking advice on how to nurture self-belief

Adam Moynihan of the website, Vintage GAA, and sports writer with the Irish edition of the Sunday Times and Michael Foley were on to talk to us about the popularity of vintage sports jersey and the companies who fork out millions to have their logos appear on them.

This morning we are joined by Rory Hearne, Lecturer in Social Policy in Maynooth and author, Tony Foley, Lecturer in Economics in DCU to discuss the exchequer returns revealing the capital underspend at the Department of Housing and the budget surplus.

James Leonard and Timmy Long joined us in studio this morning to discuss their podcast, The 2 Norries. They grew up in the northside of Cork City, an environment where drug dealing and criminality were difficult to avoid. In June 2020, they decided to set up a podcast focusing on issues around addiction, crime and recovery.

We’ll start in the Phoenix park in Dublin with the family that’s been lighting the gas lamps there for generations, over 130 years to be exact. We caught up with Jimmy and 91 year old Frank Flanagan, on a recent icy morning.

None of us will forget the 7th of October this year when a great tragedy visited the picturesque village of Creeslough in Co. Donegal. Ten people were killed in the blast at the Applegreen Service Station. And while the eyes of the world have moved on, for people in the village it remains a daily reality. The Triconaill Tribune has an office we popped in this week to meet editor John McAteer.

The wonderful first class children from St Louis Infant School choir in Rathmines in Dublin .

Our show this morning is an ode to winter, the light and dark, storms and shadows, sleet snow and the promise of Spring. Next, designer Helen James brings us a snapshot of a Christmas memory.

Do you every remember that special Christmas gift that you received as a child? Businessman Sean O’Sullivan pens a note of childhood memories in the 60s and his obsession with robots.

Anthony Bergin is 92 years of age and is mind is still consumed with lightbulb moments. He invents products to help elderly people with everyday struggles. Siofra Mulqueen has speaking to the older inventors and creators that continue to innovate and inspire.