The Post Podcast

This month’s podcast features Dr Martina Byrne, chief executive of the Public Relations Institute of Ireland (PRII), who talks about how the public relations industry is changing, due to changing demand from clients and the fragmentation of the media industry.

She speaks about some of the challenges facing PRII members, including staff retention and recruitment. She also discusses the lobbying register, saying that PR professionals are adhering to the legislation more than other relevant groups.

In this month's episode the KBC Bank Ireland investment podcast, Sunday Business Post Markets Editor Ian Guider chats to Jurgen Vandenbroucke and Dara O'Brien from KBC Asset Management about the increasingly important role behavioural finance plays in investing.

Hosted by Colette Sexton, Media Matters talks to industry experts on the issues that really matter on the first Wednesday of every month.

This month’s podcast features Alan Cox, chief executive of Ireland’s largest marketing communications company, Core. The company, formerly Core Media, was rebranded and restructured this year.

Cox talks about the further detrimental effect he believes a hard Brexit will have on the marketing industry, having already caused a 4 per cent drop.

He also talks about Core’s future plans, saying there are no plans to sell the business – and that it is on the look-out for acquisitions.

Chief Reporter Jack Horgan-Jones is joined by Health Editor Susan Mitchell to discuss the fall-out from her Sunday Business Post interview with former HSE chief Tony O’Brien last weekend. She talks about the focus on O’Brien’s comments about Health Minister Simon Harris, and the lack of reaction to the substance of his criticisms of health policy.

Political Correspondent Hugh O’Connell and News Correspondent Colette Sexton discuss MEP Brian Hayes’s decision to quit politics and the implications for the European elections next year. They also take a look at what to watch for in the US mid-term election results

Markets Editor Ian Guider also provides an update on Paschal Donohoe’s efforts to thwart EU proposals for a digital tax.

The departure of AIB chief executive Bernard Byrne for greener pastures at Davy Stockbrokers has re-ignited debate over the government's pay cap on bankers.

Jack Horgan-Jones and Ian Guider discuss the politics and probability of the government repealing the recession-era cap, and whether the state can achieve its aims for the bailed out banking sector so long as it remains in place.

Also, as a new threat to Ireland's corporate tax base looms into view, we thrash out what the new British digital tax might mean for the exchequer

In this week’s Post Podcast, Sunday Business Post Chief Reporter Jack Horgan-Jones and Political Correspondent Hugh O’Connell join Ian Guider to discuss the resignation of Denis Naughten, the controversy surrounding the National Broadband Plan and David McCourt, the man behind the only group left bidding for the contract.

Sunday Business Post Markets Editor Ian Guider is joined by Political Editor Michael Brennan and Political Correspondent Hugh O’Connell to go through the details of Budget 2019 – and to assess the political fall-out. Are we heading for an election in the next couple of months?

With Budget 2019 less than a week away, Public Affairs editor Mary Regan and Political Correspondent Hugh O'Connell anticipate what we might see in the last budget of the current confidence and supply agreement.

Hosted by Colette Sexton, Media Matters talks to industry experts on the issues that really matter on the first Wednesday of every month.

This month’s podcast features Aoife Clarke, head of communications at Lidl Ireland and Northern Ireland. She talks about joining the discount retailer as the recession hit in 2008, and how the company has developed its communications strategy and changed its image in the past ten years.

The nominations have closed. The posters are going up. And the debates are about to begin. In this special edition of the Post Podcast, political editor Michael Brennan and political correspondent Hugh O'Connell look at the six candidates hoping to achieve victory in the Presidential election on October 26.