Programme 60: 19 December 2009
ON YOUR MARKS, GET SET, SHOP!
To put Ireland's state of the art transport network to the test, we're asking three prominent business people to make their way by taxi, LUAS, and bicycle from St. Stephen's Green to our live studio in Dundrum Town Centre. The participants are:
Sean Gallagher, Smart Homes
www.SmartHomes.ie
Jim Power, Friends First
www.FriendsFirst.ie
Deborah Lee Marlow, serial entrepreneur
www.TheBusinessWhisperer.ie
THE TWELVE BUZZ-WORDS OF CHRISTMAS
Singing for their breakfast this morning are the members of the Diva Voces choir - a Dublin-based female choir.
www.DivaVoces.ie
HAVE A NICE DAY, SIR?
Eddie Shanahan takes a look around Dundrum Town Centre with John and assesses the prospects for survival of various retailers.
Eddie Shanahan
Branding, Retail & Fashion Consultant
edmundshanahan@eircom.net
087 237 3225
LIVING LA VIDA LOCA IN BUENOS AIRES
Earlier in the year, we met an advertising creative, Priscilla Groves, who had just lost her job in Dublin. To make ends meet, she was producing radio ad's for clients on a freelance basis. When we called her recently to see how she was getting on, we were surprised to hear that although she, and her partner, James Kennedy, were still running businesses targeting Irish consumers, they are doing it from Buenos Aires, Argentina. They'll be telling John why it makes sense to live abroad and work in Ireland.
www.priscillagroves.com - Priscilla's radio ad factory
www.PieHole.ie - James' website for voiceovers
THE BUSINESS BOOK CORNER
We talk to Rebecca Kerr and Emily Stephenson about their new Recession-Buster Cookbook, in aid of the St. Vincent de Paul.
Recession Busters Cookbook by Rebecca and Emily €4.99
Available in Cavistons, Glasthule or email: rebeccakerr57@yahoo.co.uk
John Gallagher of ChildNames.net picks out his business book recommendations for Christmas, and tells us about his new book, Santa and the Recessiono.
http://childnames.net
Other books recommended on the programme:
'Nudge, improving decisions about health, wealth and happiness'
by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein.
'Are You a Badger or a Doormat? How to be a leader who gets results'
by Rosie Miller.
'Michael O'Leary, a Life in full flight'
by Alan Ruddock of the Sunday Independent.
My Dear Mr McCourt, biography of Kevin McCourt
by Eugene McCague, Gill & Macmillan
www.GillMacmillan.ie
Programme 59: 12 December 2009
HAS IRELAND TURNED A CORNER?
The glass is half-full: Dr. Sean Barrett, Senior Lecturer, Economics, Trinity College Dublin
www.TCD.ie
The glass is half-empty: Pearce Flannery, Pragmatica
www.Pragmatica.ie
MAN IN THE VAN
This week's random, roadside encounter was with Liam Lawlor.
W&L Lawlor Construction
4 Griffith Ave
Sandymount
Dublin 4
087 233 7226
MAN IN THE VAN WITH CASH IN THE CAN
We caught up with a previous Man in the Van subject, Clive Marks, of Envirocleen, who has secured investment with the help of James Carroll from Investor First.
Envirocleen
Commercial & Domestic Wheeled Bin Washers
PO Box 10940
Baldoyle
Dublin 13
087 687 2228
envirocleen@eircom.net
Investor First
Homestead
Sandyford Road
Dublin 16
01 207 6200
ireland@investorfirst.ie
www.investorfirst.ie
I'M A CELEBRITY, GET MY MONEY OUT OF HERE!
Three Irish stars have joined the Business Celebrity Investment Contest to raise a guaranteed €5,000 for charity. Click here to get the full story and how you can join in.
HAVE A CHEEKY CHRISTMAS
The Cheeky Girls dropped in to tell John about their near bankruptcy and their new range of costmetics.
www.CheekyGirlsBeauty.com
info@ftiuk.com
0044 1923 858262
Programme 58: 5 December 2009
THE INCREDIBLE THING BAND
Irishman, Matthew Ling and German, Andreas Follmann, set up The Incredible Things Department based in Berlin, the "real capital" of Europe (to coin a phrase). I(ncredible) T(hings)deal in software and the web, as the IT bit might suggest. Ronan Kelly met Matthew and Andreas in Berlin last month around the 20th Anniversary of the wall coming down. And Matthew still has his own band - check them out here
www.the123gos.com
The Incredible Things Department
Web: www.incrediblethingsdepartment.com
Follow them on Twitter @itdpt
Matthew Ling and Andreas Follmann of The Incredible Things Department
IRELAND WORLDBEATER ACCORDING TO LEADBEATER
FIT (Fastforward to Information Technology) brought innovation guru, Charles Leadbeater, to Ireland for their 10th anniversary conference held this week. FIT agree that 80,000 jobs could be created through the emerging Green Economy sector but these jobs are of no use unless Irish people have the skills to work in them, which is where FIT come in.Charles Leadbeater is a former advisor to Tony Blair. He also devised Bridget Jones's Diary (originally a column) with Helen Fielding. His most recent book, We-think, explores the new phenomenon of mass creativity exemplified by web sites such as YouTube, Wikipedia and MySpace.
FIT Ltd,
22 Tolka Valley Business Park,
Ballyboggan Road,
Glasnevin, Dublin 11
Tel: 01 8825570
Email: info@fit.ie
Web: www.fit.ie
Charles Leadbeater
Web: www.charlesleadbeater.net
O'DEA REST? THE MAN NEVER SLEEPS!
Minister Willie O'Dea sports the most famous moustache in politics in Ireland and what better man to judge the best mo's in the Business Mo-Vember photo Gallery? And he graciously agreed to do it live on the show on a Saturday morning.
We can exclusively reveal what Willie O'Dea looks as Free Moustache Willie in this artist's impression.
Web: www.willieodea.ie
I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE -A RESTAURANT ADVISER!
A few week's back we invited restaurants who thought they needed help to contact us, and theyd did. So we sent Blathnaid Bergin -Restaurant Advisor- sort of what not to Eat expert- to Killarney to check out a willing victim, Chapter 40- but on the sly. Tim Desmond was forced to eat a very good meal while accompanying Blathnaid and carrying out the high tech bit of this undercover operation. See what Blathnaid found and how the restaurant reacted!
CHAPTER 40
New Street,
Killarney,
Co Kerry
Tel: 064 6671833
E-mail: info@chapter40.ie
Web: www.chapter40.ie
To see Blathnaid's do's and don't for restaurants click here
New Row
Abbeyleix
Co.Laois
Ireland
Tel: 087 679 0854
Email: info@therestaurantadvisor.ie
Web: www.therestaurantadvisor.ie
SIGN HERE FOR SAFETY
John Murray went on the hunt for more white vans this week and he caught up with Brent Carswell of the Safety Sign Centre in Meath. Brent's company is closely tied to the construction sector and while it's not a total tale of woe, it's still not good out there.
Safety Sign Centre,
Unit 7, The Dale
Laytown, Co Meath
Tel: 0419828991
Email: info@safetysigncentre.com
Web: http://safetysigncentre.com
Programme 57: 28th November 2009
ANALYSE THIS, MR. COWEN!
With the Taoiseach, this week, accusing us all of being "overwhelmingly negative", we decided to put the nation on the economic equivalent of the psychoanalyst's couch. Pete Lunn is based at the ESRI and his expertise is 'Behavioural Economics' - a sort of cross between psychology and economics.
Pete Lunn,
Research Officer, ESRI
pete.lunn@esri.ie
www.esri.ie
FINAL DESTINATION FOR BUDGET TRAVEL
This week saw the liquidation of iconic Irish travel agent, Budget Travel. John speaks to, Simon Coyle, the liquidator appointed to wind up the company. If you are a Budget customer looking for a refund go to
www.aviationreg.ie or Tel: 1-6613122.
Simon Coyle
Enterprise Services
Mazars
(0)1 4496431
www.Mazars.ie
VENTURE ME THIS, TIM.
Venture capitalists are the people who invest their money in high-risk new companies, hoping to get a big return if those companies succeed. The man who's been called the world's most successful venture capitalist was in Dublin during the week speaking to entrepreneurs, and John caught up with him.
Tim Draper
Managing Director
Draper Fisher Jurvetson
www.DFJ.com
I'VE GOT A BRAND NEW MULTIHOG
Father and daughter team, Jim and Ruth McAdam, drop by to show John their new multi-purpose utility vehicle, the MultiHog. Watch videos of the vehicle in action on the website below. Watch the MultiHog in action on video.
Multihog
FoyeTech Ltd.
Brewery Business Park
Ardee Rd.
Dundalk
Co. Louth
042 9386738
info@multihog.com
www.MultiHog.com
EAMONN'S BINTRASHER BEATS THEM ALL, EVERY DAY
Earlier in the year, we teamed up Wexford man, Eamonn Treacy, with Ben Dunne for what turned out to be one of our least successful mentoring partnerships. After pitching his bin-compressing invention to the Irish Dragons' Den, Eamonn joins John in studio. Without Ben.
Eamonn Treacy
Treacy Engineering
Ballinvalley
Kildavin
Enniscorthy
Co. Wexford
bintrasher@yahoo.ie
059 915 7629
087 206 9546
www.bintrasher.com
A NICE IDEA, BUT WILL IT PAY THE BILLS?
Former Quantity Surveyor, Rory McGuigan, from Cavan, had a brainwave last year that comes to fruition on The Business this Saturday morning. It's a gift card, produced in association with MasterCard, that can be used for paying bills.
Rory McGuigan
KineticCard Ltd.
16 Clare Street
Dublin 2
www.Utilize.ie
info@utilize.ie
Programme 56: 21th November 2009
WAITER, THERE'S A FLY IN MY SOUP
Blathnaid Bergin is a Restaurant Advisor- a what? If your restaurant is not performing she will come in and tell you what is what- a sort of foodie troubleshooter. Irish restaurants are in trouble and they are blaming high wages and overheads, but could bad value and poor management have something to do with it?
To see Blathnad's do's and don't for restaurants click here
New Row
Abbeyleix
Co.Laois
Ireland
Tel: 087 679 0854
Email:info@therestaurantadvisor.ie
Web: www.therestaurantadvisor.ie
CLON-DYKE - DON'T TAKE THE FINGER OUT
It's was a bad week for businesses prone to flooding across the country, particularly in the west and the South West. Tim Desmond braved the West Cork rapids and is live at Walsh Printers in Clonakilty town centre with Robert Walsh.
Walsh Printers & West Cork Labels
Bridge House
Rossa Street
Clonakilty
Co. Cork
Tel: 023-8833425
Email: walshprint@eircom.net
Web: http://wprintl.com
I'M A CELEBRITY- GET MY CASH OUT OF HERE ! WEEK 4
See how our 3 stars are getting on with their 20 grand .. Who is top of the investment charts this week and who is on target to earn €5,000 for a charity of their choice...And check out how our.listeners can take part as well and win a €1,000 euro investment account at trading website Delta Index. There are over 400 so far taking part and it runs until the end of January 2010.
Former Rugby international Shane Byrne took the lead this week he was up over €2,000 on the week, and increased his stake to €24,100...Last week's leader of the pack Anne Doyle slipped back a little down to €22,400, into second place and Brian D'Arcy was down on his original €20,000 to about €17,000 and remained in third place.
Join in the fun and check the leaderboards at:
http://www.deltaindex.com/
PAY LOTS OF MONEY AND YOU GET HIGHLY PAID MONKEYS
John Purcell is brave man - he reckons bankers need to be paid lots of money- the only thing that could make him more of a public hate figure here would be to suggest that that French goal was honest. John Purcell is an ex-Pat who runs Purcell & Co. in London, a firm of corporate headhunters, and is a regular on the show.
Purcell and Co.,
Berkeley Square House,
Berkeley Square,
London W1J 6BD
Tel: +44 207849 6130
Email: enquiries@purcellandco.com
Web: www.purcellandco.com
DEEP HEAT
GT Energy was established in 2006 and specialises in geothermal energy for district heating networks in Ireland and the UK. Based in Co Dublin GT is the leading private geothermal resource company. The use of heat from deep in the ground is a rapidly growing technology.and John went out to Rathcoole to meet Con McCarthy and get a bit of deep heat treatment.
GT Energy
Unit H, Grants Road
Greenogue Business Park
Rathcoole, Co. Dublin
Tel: 01 401 1020
Email: info@gtenergy.net
Web: http://gtenergy.net
Programme 56: 14th November 2009
Live from Cork, the southern capital, the city voted the fourth best place to visit by the Lonely Planet travel guides our Business breakfast took place at the Farmgate Cafe, in the wonderful English Market.
John spoke to Pat O'Connell, a third generation fish merchant at the market.
K O'Connell Fish Merchants
The English Market,
Cork,
Co. Cork
Tel: (021) 427 6380
Email: freshfish@koconnellsfish.com
John took a tour of the new Cork Swansea Ferry services which is due to get underway next march. His guide for the tour was Tom Barrett CEO of Fastnet Lines.
Fastnet Line,
14 Penrose Wharf,
Cork, Ireland.
021 4555 666
info@fastnetline.com
http://www.fastnetline.com/
John got down to the details of a couple of baby related businesses over Coffee at the Farmgate restaurant in the English Market . He spoke to Suzanne Kingston Of puddleducks.ie and to David Caren of dad.ie, two web base entrepreneurs from the Cork area.
PuddleDucks
Beechwood
Ferney Road
Carrigaline
County Cork
Ireland.
Tel 021 437 2917
Email: info@puddleducks.ie
Musical accompaniment at The English Market came from Pat Horgan and John Cullinane of the Dizzy Blues Band.
Programme 55: 7th November 2009
THE ONLY THING MISSING IS THE BANANAS
Anthony Sweeney is an Irish economist living in Bavaria, Germany, and advises investment funds in Europe. His views of the Irish economy are summed up in his latest book "Banana Republic", along the lines of;
"People think this is the crisis. This is not the crisis - the crisis is yet to come. We're in a worse state than Iceland. We're going to run out of money, because the government won't make the sorts of cuts needed. So the sooner the ECB or the IMF come in and take over the better" Anthony has a Masters Degree in Business Administration with a specialisation in International Trade and Finance from Edinburgh Business School. His previous books include Strategic Implications of Monetary Union and Irrational Exuberance: The Myth of the Celtic Tiger. On foot of this we asked would it be good or bad if the IMF intervened in the Irish economy - just under 88% said good. The results are
1143 - GOOD
162 - BAD
1305 official entries
Click here to find out more on "Banana Republic -The Failure of the Irish State and How to Fix It"
UGLY DUCKLING BECOMES SWAN CINEMA
The Swan Centre in Rathmines, Dublin, is due to have a new cinema at the end of November, being built of prefabricated parts. The centre is owned by Ward Anderson, the family company, who run Iteland's largest independent cinema chain. And Kevin Anderson took John Murray around the building site and explained how you build a 3 screen cinema in 5 weeks and why digital is the future
Swan Cinema
Rathmines
Dublin 6
Web: www.swancinemas.ie
Or for a digital cinema demo: www.digitalcinema.ie.
HORIZONTAL MANAGEMENT.
Conor Ridge runs what is one of Ireland's top sports management agency. On his books at the moment are some serious golfers - World Match Play, Ross Fisher and 2 top Irishmen, Graeme McDowell and Shane Lowry. Conor also negotiated the Puma kit and sponsorship deal for the Irish rugby team.
Conor Ridge, Horizon Sports Management
Horizon Sports Management Ltd
44 Lower Leeson Street,
Dublin 2,
Ireland.
Tel: 01 662 1722
Email: info@horizonsports.ie
Web: www. horizonsports.ie
I'M A CELEBRITY, GET MY MONEY OUT OF HERE!
Anne Doyle is beating the 2 lads easily. Delta index sent us the following summary after week 1. We take no responsibility for use of financial "jargon" in this
Shane Bynre:
Initially achieving fantastic profits from shorting US Light Crude from 79.46 to 77.00 however the US Dollar correlation with Gold seems to have broken down with the Dollar strengthening massively and Gold continuing to rise. Gold hitting its all time high this week. The International Monetary Fund sold 200 tons of Gold to the Reserve Bank of India for $6.7 billion, and there were rumors China also wanted to buy large quantities of Gold mixed with the uncertainty of global banking stocks. To conclude very volatile week and Shane is sittingjust below his initial 20k thanks to well placed stop losses. Value €19973
Fr Brian Darcy:
This was a certainly an choppy week for the sterling. On Monday morning, Sterling had been hammered from Friday evening so Brian got a great price at about 16380. Due to the heavier than expected selling over the weekend we set stops at quite tightly below this level. The trade looked promising for a while but came down and hit the stop loss. Looking at the news and fears of an increase in quantitive easing which would weaken sterling we decided we would buy dollars instead. This again started well but quickly turned sour, the market rallied and Brian stood aside to reassess. Finally re-entering buying sterling again as it had broken and held above 16500, we went long at 16530 and took a quicker profit this time at 16573. This left Brian slightly down for the week at €19221.
Anne Doyle:
Anne had a very good week, having bought equities on dips she experienced significant profits from CRH, the ISEQ and NASDAQ which had positive weeks, however the short position on McDonalds was stopped out surrendering some profit, however she has grown her initial 20k to €22080
Topping the Listener Leaderboard after week one is Jason Delaney whose 20,000 Euro has already blossomed into an extraordinary 31,600 Euro! So far, we've only one woman in the Top Ten: Fanny Pichon-Varin, a Francophone based in Cork, in third place.
Click here to check ouit the rankings anytime -
To get more on this or join in the Listener's Investment Challenge - click here
From the left - Fr Brian D'Arcy, Shane Byrne, Anne Doyle, Chris Curran of Delta Index and another celebrity
WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?
Diversity Challenge is run by Open Minds Consultants, and tbey want companies to recognise all the different people who make up businesses these days - and they say if you take care of these different people, then you have more efficient and productive staff. Katriona McFadden accompanied David Walsh on a visit to Novartis in Ringaskiddy, Cork, to see how it works in practice
Open Minds Consultants
22 South Frederick Street,
Dublin 2
Tel: 01 6740000
Email: info@diversity.ie
Web: www.diversity.ie
Programme 55: 31st October 2009
XANADU IN TWO MILE BORRIS
€460 Million investment in small townland in North Tipperary. Sounds too good to be true? April Fool's joke too early? Story from Celtic Tiger Era that came 5 years too late? Well according to Michael Lowry, TD for North Tipp, this is for real. The Tipperary Venue will be located on an 800 acre site close to Two-Mile-Borris. Dublin-based businessman Richard Quirke (best known for Dr. Quirkey's Good Time Emporium Richard in Dublin's O'Connell Street but who also has a wide variety of successful business ventures) is the man behind it.. It will include a Casino, 15,000 seater underground entertainment venue, 2 full horse race tracks ( one all weather), an 18-hole signature golf course, Driving range, Equestrian centre and a full scale replica of the White House.
The Bould Michael Lowry took John Murray for a look at the site near the shores of Lough Derg on the Tipperary, Kilkenny border to tell him how it's all going to work.
I'M A CELEBRITY, GET MY MONEY OUT OF HERE!
3 real Irish stars ( as opposed to pretty boy twins who can't sing a note type celebrities) have joined the Business Celebrity Investment Challenge to raise a guaranteed €5,000 for charity.Click here to get the full story and how you can join in.
O'DRYER ON THE RACK?
Jeanette & Martin O'Dwyer, the Tipperary couple behind O'Dryer, invited Katriona McFadden to see their first commercial run of their all weather "clothes line" coming off the production line. Back in June they unveiled it on the Business, just in time for our usual wet summer- timing is everything!
Marlhill
New Inn
Cashel
Co. Tipperary
Tel: 051 347 030 /086 344 1039
Email: sales@odryer.ie
Web: www.odryer.ie
ODRYER IN ACTION IN THE FROST
FRENCH FRANK - OUI! IRISH FRANK- NON!
Frank Jackson runs the Connemara Irish Bar in Bordeaux and as someone living in France he went to buy some tickets for the Ireland France world cup qualifiers. But he was refused! Frank tells us more.
The Connemara Irish Pub and Restaurant,
14-18 Cours d'Albret
33000 Bordeaux,
France
Tel: + 33 556 528257
Web: www.connemara-pub.com
CUT RYANAIR CHARGES, WELL NO THANKS TO THEM!
There's only one way to buy a ticket from Ryanair, and that is online. And then they charge you for doing it online.. Catch 22! The ever glib Michael O'Leary replies that you don't have to pay any charge if you use a 'Visa Electron card'. Can you get one in Ireland? Well, of course not! None of the banks here issue them. Well, we sent our undercover financial agent, Tim Desmond on the Mission Impossible, to avoid paying Ryanair rip off charges by getting a Visa Electron Card.. Find out how he did it and took €5 out of Michael O'Leary's pocket..
To get started , follow this link to apply for a Visa Electron card with Entropay.com ( you must apply for a GBP sterling card for Ryanair to accept it)
www.Entropay.com
NATIONAL ALCOHOL MANAGEMENT AGENCY
During the NAMA bill debate, Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan said "an exemplary standard must be set from the start" in case of any allegations of corruption. The provisions will apply to an official of Nama, or an individual "who performs functions connected with the valuation of eligible bank assets". The provisions come into play where it is shown that the "gift or consideration or advantage shall be taken, unless the contrary is proved, to have been given and received corruptly as an inducement to or reward for the person performing or omitting to perform any of those functions".
During the ongoing committee stage debate on the Bill, Fine Gael finance spokesman Richard Bruton asked the Minister: "Does this mean if someone accepts a bottle of wine from a person in any way connected with any piece of land of any Nama loan that it could be seen as potentially corrupt?" Mr Lenihan replied that "it does, actually".
So we asked Paddy Keogh of Wines Direct to send a nice bottle of Chateau 'Le Bay Gorse' [from the Marguax region] to the MD of NAMA. And they accepted it on Friday. We expect the Office of Corporate Enforcement and the Garda Fraud Squad will follow along shortly
Web: www.WinesDirect.ie
POST SCRIPT - NAMA RETURN WINE- accompanied by the followng froM THE MANAGING DIRECTOR
Dear John,
Thank you for thinking of me and arranging the delivery of the lovely bottle of wine yesterday evening. As you are aware, from the NAMA Committee stage debate this past week, no person working on or providing a service to NAMA can avail or accept such gifts.
You may not have known during your radio show this morning that I arranged to have it returned to RTE yesterday evening at 6pm. I attach the courier delivery docket so you can trace its safe return.
I do hope that you and\or your team will be able to avail of it or perhaps find another suitable home for it. Maybe you may consider using it as a NAMA competition prize for one of your many listeners. Wherever its ends up I wish the ultimate recipient the pleasure of its enjoyment.
With best wishes and continued success with the show.
Regards
Brendan McDonagh
Interim Managing Director National Asset Managment Agency National Treasury Management Agency, Treasury Building,Grand Canal Street,Dublin 2, Ireland
Programme 54: 24th October 2009
A NIGHT AT THE OPERA or NO SLEEP TIL WEXFORD
DUBLIN- During the summer, Pat McArdle stepped down as Ulster Bank Group Chief Economist, after 13 or so years in the job. He might have reached normal retirement age but Pat is not hanging up the supply-demand curves just yet and is now an independent economist. Pat joined John Murray in the Business Bus from the start of the adventure to offer his thoughts on the midden heap known as the Irish economy. And to get the show on the road, John played Pat the views of CIT Economist, Tom O'Connor. No marks for guessing that he and Pat do not see eye to eye
Pat McArdle, Independent Economist
Email: ardle.mcArdle@gmail.com
Tom O'Connor, Lecturer in Economics and Social Policy,
Cork Institute of Technology.
Tel: 021 4326547
Email: tom.oconnor@cit.ie
KILCOOLE (aka Glenroe)- Janet Drew runs Janet's Country Fayre who make a range of chutneys The Irish Chutney market is not as developed as in the UK and the corporate hamper business ( which was bread and butter business for them) has imploded, so she's diversified into pasta sauces. Janet has one full time staff member and is adding more coming up to Christmas as seasonal packs are still popular.
Janet's Country Fayre
Unit 13B,
Bullford Business Campus,
Kilcoole, Co. Wicklow,
Ireland.
Tel : 01-201-8008
Mobile : 087-620-5712
Email: janet@janetscountryfayre.com
Web: www.janetscountryfayre.com
Plastics in action at Holfelds Arklow plant
ARKLOW- Just outside Arklow is the super modern plant of Holfeld Plastics, whose main stock in trade is moulded food grade plastic containers. John Cullen is Managing Director and he took John on a tour of the premises, for which protecitive clothing was required. Not so much to protect us as much as stop us polluting the production process. John outlined Holfeld Plastics launch of one of the first on-site, closed-loop recycling plants in Europe with a capacity for producing 20,000 tonnes of rPET and HDPE (2 types of plastic) per annum, to ESFA Food Contact Standards. Business seems to be good at the moment.
Holfeld Plastics,
Avoca River Park,
Arklow, Co. Wicklow
Tel: 0402 41234
Web: www.holfeldplastics.ie
MD of Holfeld, John Cullen talks to John about his new headgear
ENNISCORTHY- Liam Griffin, victorious Wexford Hurling Manager (96), hotelier and plain speaking business man, runs the Griffin Group Hotels. John met him at Monart Destination Spa, a €35 million project when it launched c.2006. Forbes Mag rate is as one of the world's top 10. Sure the recession is biting, but he is surviving where many of the more recent tax driven hotel and holiday home developments have collapsed. Liam tells us that Monart was 100% Irish owned and built - as opposed to other developments that flooded the market. And Liam (or a Monart staff member) is going to grow a moustache as part of the Business Movember campaign - see main page for more details.
Monart Spa Hotel
The Still
Enniscorthy
Co. Wexford
Tel: 053 92 38999
Email: info@monart.ie or reservations@monart.ie
Web: www.monart.ie
Liam Griffin explains about free lunches to John Murray, Mary Regan and Pat McArdle
ENNISCORTHY- Mary Regan is also based just outside Enniscorthy but her's is a different kettle of fish from Liam's. Regan's Organic Chicken in fact. Mary has a one-old baby boy - and also 300 chickens and turkeys. Turkeys for the Christmas market is the big thing at the moment but she's recently expanded into organic pork sausages and was prominent at the recent Superquinn Artisan Food Festival.
Regan's Organic Chicken
Dunanore
Bree
Enniscorthy
Co.Wexford
Tel: 087 6682461
Email: reganmaryj@eircom.net
Web: www.organic-trust.org/members/detail/regan_organic_chicken_mary_regan/
The gang waiting for the LUAS at Kent's - John is talking to Pat Kent (2nd from right)
ARDCAVAN: Kent Stainless supply the LUAS in Dublin with all their advertising boards, ticket dispensers, signs, and shelters, and as the name suggests stainless steel is their speciality. Pat Kent is Managing Director and beats the drum for Irish manufacturing, neglected during the Tiger Era in favour of multinationals and throwing tax money into holes in the ground (Construction). Wisely, they never got too deep into construction, but developed export markets such as waste treatment equipment to the UK, Holland, Wales, and South Africa. They employ 100 making them by far the biggest employer in the area and Pat is going make sure Kent Steel join the Movember movement.
Kent Stainless (Wexford) Ltd,
Ardcavan,
Wexford,
Tel: 053 9143 216
Email: info@kentstainless.com
Web: www.kentstainless.com/
Adriano Graziani sings for the Business
WEXFORD - Eamonn Carroll is Business Development Manager of the Wexford Opera Festival and Opera House. So how does a small niche opera festival in a small ( by international standards) town survive, given the enormous cost of opera.. And there is the problem of making money from the venue outside the opera festival. Wexford has managed to maintain its rather unique position as an important date on the world Opera Circuit. 58 years on the go and in the second year in the custom built Wexford Opera House.
Adriano Graziani is a Welsh tenor with an Italian connection who was a banker until he took part in an artist development programme at the Wexford Festival 4 years ago. He'll be performing in Maria Padilla - Monday, Thursday and Sunday week - and Adriano has enjoyed a string of successful appearances, with 2009 debuts including Rodolfo La bohème (Welsh National Opera); Cavaradossi Tosca (Holland Park Opera); Alfredo La traviata (Opéra de Baugé). And he sung for us - A Vucchella by 19 Century Italian composer, Tosti which is a touching love song....and we were touched!
Wexford Opera House
High Street
Wexford, Ireland
Tel: 053 91 22 400
Callsave: 1850 4 OPERA
Email: boxoffice@wexfordopera.com
Web: www.wexfordopera.com
Adriano Graziani
Web: www.adrianograziani.com
The full crew at the end of the Opera(tion)
THE PEOPLE WHO PUT THE BUS IN BUS-INESS
JJ Kavanagh and Sons provided the bus for the trip, and are based in the bus capital of Ireland, from Urlingford, Co Kilkenny. 90 years in the bus business this year must mean that they are doing so mething very well. Our grateful thanks to JJ Kavanagh and bus driver, Prosper Nayngor, for their courteous, efficient and friendly way of dealing with all on the road trip.
JJ Kavanagh and Sons
Tel: 0818 333 222
Email: info@jjkavanagh.ie
Web: www.jjkavanagh.ie
Programme 53: 17th October 2009
RYANAIR- LOVE OR HATE-EM - YOU LOVED EM- 60% VOTED LOVE AND 40% HATE in a poll of over 2000 listeners
OLE, OLE, O'LEARY
It's the airline we love to hate - but keep flying with anyway. After the BBC's much-hyped Panorama investigation into Ryanair, we ask two commentators to argue either side of our love/hate relationship with the airline and its, eh, flamboyant chief executive.
Loving it: Jennifer O'Connell
Sunday Business Post
www.sbpost.ie
Hating it: Paul Kilduff
Author, Ruinair
http://www.paulkilduff.com/ruinair.htm
HOW DO YOU FIT A HUNDRED ECONOMISTS IN A HOTEL?
In the week that Denis O'Brien unleashed contempt on Ireland's academic economists, we'll be going live to the Park Hotel in Kenmare, where the Dublin Economic Workshop is taking place. Its organiser is Sean Barrett.
Sean Barrett
Senior Lecturer
Economics Department
Trinity College Dublin
Sean.Barrett@tcd.ie
01 896 1523
www.TCD.ie
BUSINESS MATCHMAKING AT CROKE PARK
John took a trip earlier this week to Croke Park for the Enterprise Ireland Big Ideas Showcase. It's an event that encourages academic researchers to promote their discoveries to investors. John first spoke to Kevin Kavanagh from NUI Maynooth about his bee-protecting invention, Beemune; and then to UCD's Barry Smyth about HeyStaks, which he's hoping will revolutionise the way we search for things online.
About the event:
http://www.enterprise-ireland.com/BIGIDEAS
Kevin Kavanagh
Department of Biology
NUI Maynooth
01 708 3859
kevin.kavanagh@nuim.ie
http://biology.nuim.ie/staff/kkmed.shtml
Barry Smyth
HeyStaks Technologies
Belfield Innovation Park
University College Dublin
Belfield
Dublin 4
01-7162645
www.HeyStaks.com
CARRY ON, KARAOKE
Dan Barry pops into The Business to tell John about the audio technology break-through that he licensed to Sony for use on their popular Playstation game, SingStar. Demonstrating how exactly karaoke works is the pride of Mayfield, Co. Cork: former IT consultant turned World Karaoke Champion, Adrian Kenny.
Dan Barry
Senior Researcher
DIT Audio Research Group
dan.barry@dit.ie
01 402 2862
http://www.audioresearchgroup.com/
Adrian Kenny
adrianken97@hotmail.com
021 450 1912
BACKING A WINNER IN SPONSORSHIP
Advertising revenues are down generally, but the sports sponsorship business is holding up well and is expected to be worth about €130 million in 2009. John speaks to James Hogan CEO of Ethiad Airways, sponsors of the GAA Hurling Championships. A more recent entrant to intercounty GAA sponsorship, Matty Walsh of MW Hire in Urlingford, speaks to John about his deal to sponsor Laois GAA for the coming years.
James Hogan
CEO, Etihad Airways
http://www.etihadairways.com
MW Hire
Unit 14
Urlingford Business Park
Co. Kilkenny
056 8831418
056 8831493
Eamil :info@mwhire.com
Web: www.mwhire.com
GROW A MO' FOR THE BUSINESS!
The Business is delighted to being working in conjunction with the Irish Cancer Society to raise funds for Action Prostate Cancer. For the month of Mo-vember* we're asking the businesses of Ireland to sponsor an employee to grow a moustache. For more information about taking part, click here.
Left: The Murray Mo
Programme 52: 10th October 2009
HAPPY BIRTHDAY POWERPOINT
Click here to download the powerpoint birthday presentation from The Business breakfast at Bewleys
The Business Breakfast
The foodie table
Joining John at the foodie table in Bewleys were:
Peter Caviston, Caviston's Food Emporium, Glasthule, Co. Dublin
http://www.cavistons.com
Yvonne Scully, BiaKid
http://www.biakid.ie
John Cahill, Campbell Bewley group
http://bewleys.com
The tech table
Joining John at the Technology company table were:
Jamie McCormick, English Marketing Manager, Gala Networks Europe, Digital Hub
http://en.gpotato.eu/
John Dunne, MD, Intune Networks, Park West,Dublin.
http://www.intunenetworks.com/
Colm Lyon, MD, Realex Payments, Monkstown, Dublin.
http://www.realexpayments.com/
Diane Roberts.National Director, Halo Business Angels Network.
https://www.businessangels.ie/
'Giggin' in God's Gaff'!!
The Gardiner Street Gospel Choir Joined us for a bit of spiritual uplift in Bewleys on Grafton Street. They sang 'Working on a building' as well as a special version of 'Happy birthday' for the 25th anniversary of PowerPoint.
The Gardiner Street Gospel Choir ,formed in 2000, includes among its members, people from nearby and elsewhere who have strong family links with Gardiner Street. They also reflect Dublin as it is today, coming from diverse backgrounds in Ireland and elsewhere....
The Gardiner Street Gospel Choir play every Sunday in St Francis Xaviers Church on Gardiner Street Dublin 1 @ 7.30pm.
http://www.gardinerstreetgospelchoir.com
Singing (and playing) for your supper.
Katriona found two of Grafton street's more enterprising businesspeople, who provide a 'musical atmosphere' on the famous thoroughfare (buskers, in other words!) Kevin was made redundant from his sales & advertising job in the magazine industry last April. He decided to go busking fulltime, and is doing reasonably well, thank you very much.Kevin plays guitar and sings popular songs like Kings of Leon and U2. He sings his own stuff late night.
Bill Galligan has been 30 years busking on Grafton Street and all over the country. He's seen all the changes on the street. He plays the mandolin and guitar but only does instrumental stuff saying that "song lyrics encourage all sorts of idiots".
Bill Galligan: www.BillGalligan.com
Happy Birthday Mr. PowerPoint
Yes folks, it really is a quarter of a century since the humble PowerPoint entered the world of Business, and we've decided to celebrate. We've had a cake made (yes we really did, Cakes online did it for us, http://www.cakesonline.ie ). Rowan Manahan, founder of fortify services, a Dublin-based consulting and career management firm gave us a special presentation on PowerPoint.
http://www.fortifyservices.com/
Programme 51: 26th September 2009
ETHICAL BANKING - CAN THEY EVEN SPELL ETTICKLE?
Charles Middleton is Managing Director, Triodos BankUK, which is Europe's largest "Ethical" bank. Charles Middleton is one of the key speakers at a one day seminar on Ethical Finance and the global economic crisis in Dublin next Saturday October 3rd at Sophia House, 25 Cork St Dublin. Find out more about the day at www.anthroposophy.ie/ethical_finance
While ethical and banking are not two words one might stick together in the Irish context, it is a serious business in Europe and North America, where they invest in range of business in the Fairtrade, Environment and community areas. Before joining in March 2003, Charles worked with Barclays in a number of different roles including general management positions in India, Africa and The Caribbean. Triodos has a number of investments in Ireland including The Gyreum, in Sligo and the Walkinstown Association and the Clondalkin Community Property Development Company, both in Dublin.
To find out more on these Irish Projects click here http://www.rte.ie/thebusiness/triodos.doc
Triodos Bank
Brunel House
11 The Promenade
Bristol
BS8 3NN ENGLAND
Web: www.triodos.co.uk/uk/about_triodos/
Or for more: www.triodos.co.uk/knowwhereyourmoneygoes/
To hear a longer version of the interview with Charles Middleton Click here
AN APP A DAY KEEPS THE DEBT COLLECTOR AWAY
In the awesomely trendy world of hitek, Apple's I-phone has become a bit on an
I-con, and a huge range of add on features are available from a huge range of small (and big) software producers. These are called APPS, short for Applications- the fact that it sounds like Apple, is no coincidence because Apple is to marketing what Michael O'Leary is to expletives. Very f****** good! Some of these apps are really usefu, some are a joke, some are free but none is that expensive.And they can make money for small and medium companies. 3 of the Irish Apps producers came in to inform techno-phobe John Murray how this all works. Check out the range of Irish apps at www.apps.ie
Paul Reilly,
Web: www.subsonic.ie
Dermot Daly,
Web: www.tapadoo.com
Damian O'Suilleabhain,
Web: www.os3.ie
WEAVE ME A BROADBAND CONNECTION, WILL YOU?
Following the great broadband race last week, Brian Hanly of John Hanly and Co, contacted us with his horror story on broadband.. A short story .. there is none in his part of North Tipperary! Brian weaves us a sorry tale. John Hanly & Co Ltd is one of Ireland's few surviving textile mills, based in Ballyartella outside Nenagh, Co Tipp. The company has always been under the management of the Hanly family and Brian Hanly is now the fourth Managing Director. In 1893 they moved to Ballyartella taking a vacant mill beside the Nenagh River with a large wheel providing the power to operate the machinery. That was the age of coal, steel and water and the broadband worked as well then as it does now.
John Hanly & Co Ltd, Ballyartella Woollen Mills,Nenagh, Co Tipperary, Ireland
Tel: +353 (0)67 24278
EMail; jhanly@iol.ie
Web: www.johnhanly.com
Brian Hanly pulls rug from under broadband providers
MULTITASKING IS BAD FOR... YOUR MULTITASKING
Eyal Ophir,is a researcher is the Symbolic Systems area in Stranford University, California, USA . The Symbolic Systems Program (SSP) focuses on computers and minds: artificial and natural systems that use symbols to represent information, but his particular area is multitasking. And one of the things his research group found out was that the more media people use the worse they are at using any media, which shocked them or in other words the more you multitask the worse we are at doing it. And are women better than men - well tested that live with Susan Moylett, owner of Susan Hunter in Dublin and Jamie Myerscough of Educogym in Dundrum and Blackrock Dublin
Eyal Ophir
Email: eyal.ophir@gmail.com or
Web: http://symsys.stanford.edu/
Susan Hunter Lingerie
13 Westbury Mall
Grafton Street Dublin 2
Tel: 01 679 1271
Email: susanhunter@eircom.net Web: www.susanhunter.ie
Dundrum EducoGym -Email: dundrum@educogym.com Blackrock EducoGym - Email : blackrock@educogym.com and for both Tel: 1850 737 737
www.educogym.com/ireland.aspx
THEM'S PLOUGHING WORDS IN ATHY
James Reeves of Athy, Co Kildare, is a teacher/farmer/entrepreneur who has founded The Student Press, a full-colour monthly tabloid newspaper designed to help secondary school students find out about the print media. Following very positive responses from schools and students alike to two pilot issues, the third issue - the first issue for the new academic year in September - is currently being put together and will be distributed free of charge within the classroom to over 50,000 senior cycle students in secondary schools throughout the country.
The Irish Student Press
Barrowford, Athy, Co Kildare
Tel: (059) 863 1305
Mobile: 087 928 2188
Email: info@studentpress.ieWeb: www.studentpress.ie.
(ANTI) VIRAL MARKETING
US computer security company, McAfee, are growing in Ireland and are holding interviews at the moment to increase their Cork operation by 120 jobs up to 300. Senior vice president at mcafee, tim bizley, is the man in charge of the recruitment and from their base in in Cork, he told John a story with a happy ending. To find out more about any jobs vacant go to www.mcafee.com
Programme 50: 19th September 2009
NAMA NAMA- HEY HEY - KISS IT GOODBYE!
Blind people in the pub with your knowledge! Become an economics expert overnight! Join any leading financial institution as an economist just on the strength of this!
The Business presents the bluffers' guide to THE NATIONAL ASSET MANAGEMENT AGENCY by DCU lecturer Tony Foley. Tony Foley is head of the economics, finance and entrepreneurship group in DCU Business School and was Director of the Local Government MBA programme and executive MBA in DCUBS.
Coming shortly: the easy to understand condensed version of the Lisbon Treaty (do not hold your breath)
If you want to download the full Bluffers' Guide- http://www.rte.ie/thebusiness/biznama.doc
E-Mail: anthony.foley@dcu.ie
Web: www.dcu.ie
AS BROAD AS IT IS SLOW
Back in January we held the inaugural Business Broadband race, when four users of wireless broadband raced against each other to download a file from the Programme page of the RTE website. This time round we pitted four fixed line broadband users against each other. The winner was Richie Fitzgerald, using Eircom Broadband in Bundoran, Co. Donegal. Should you wish to see how fast yours is you can have a go at the test we set- http://www.rte.ie/radio1/thebusiness/broadbandtest2.wmv or you can do a full speed test at www.irishisptest.com
Our 4 willing broadband victims were:
Richie Fitzgerald
Surfworld
Main Street,
Bundoran,
Co Donegal
Tel: 071 98421223
Email: info@surfworldireland.com
Web: www.surfworldireland.com
Michael FitzGerald
SwiftAccounts.ie
Unit 109, Business Innovation Centre
National University of Ireland, Galway
Upper Newcastle, Galway, Ireland
t: +353 91 473138
m: +353 86 8331710
e: michael@swiftaccounts.ie
w: www.swiftaccounts.ie
Yasmin Hyde,
Ballymaloe Country Relish
Courtstown Park, Little Island, Co. Cork
Tel: (0)21 4354810
http://www.ballymaloecountryrelish.ie
Liz McGonigal
EMcG Public Relations
29 Seafort Avenue
Sandymount
Dublin 4
Tel: 01 6681314
Fax: 01 6697686
Email: info@emcgpr.ie
ON THE BANKS OF MY OWN LOVELY FARMLEIGH
On the week that the Australians pulled out of Eircom, John talked to Paul O'Sullivan CEO of Optus Telecommunications, the second largest Telecoms provider in Australia. Paul grew up in Dublin, graduated from Trinity and has spent the last 22 years down under. He is one of the many business people in Dublin this week to attend the "We Haven't A Clue How To Get Out Of This Mess So Please Give Us Some Ideas", or to give it the proper name, The Global Irish Economic Summit.
Web: www.optus.com.au
THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE ALL IRELAND BIZ QUIZ
While the side show goes on in Croke Park this weekend, the real contest is the All Ireland BIZ-QUIZ, where Cork and Kerry Business teams go head to head in a sick as a parrot game of 2 halves.. And there's even a cup for the winning county - not the Sam but the Tom - our thanks to Tom Watkins of the Trophy Gallery for this prized item. Our teams are;
KINGDOM
Ogie Sheehy of You Comply
Web: www.youcomply.com
John Rice, of Jam Media
Web: www.jammedia.ie
REBELS
Ciara Crossan of WeddingDates.ie
Web: www.weddingdates.ie
Ciara Feeley of FindaConferenceVenue.com
Web: www.FindaConferenceVenue.com
Tom Watkins
Trophy Gallery
19 North Frederick Street
Dublin 1
Tel: 01 8746902
BREAKING BALL/NEWS - CORK BEAT KERRY! In a hard fought but thankfully sending off free game. Cork came in 2.2 to 1.2 winners.
John joins pitch invasion as winning Cork team parade with trophy
SWISHING YOU WERE HERE
Katriona McFadden went swishing for us this week. The poor woman was forced by the severe production team on the Business to give her clothes away. As part of the Spend Clever + Live Better campaign, Katriona went to a Swishing Party, where women - and some men allegedly - swap til they drop. And if you want to find out more, Shebeen Chic on Dublin's Georges Street are running their Swishing Party this afternoon ( Saturday) from 12 to 4.
Shebeen Chic
4 South Great Georges St,
Dublin 2
Tel;01 6799667
Web: www.shebeenchic.ie
Spend Clever + Live Better
Reuse. Repair. Research alternatives. Borrow. Barter. Break bad habits.
For three weeks, September 7th to 25th, RTÉ Spend Clever Live Better brings experience, advice and encouragement on how to survive these challenging times and improve your quality of life.
Click here to visit the Spend Clever Live Better website.
Programme 49: 12th September 2009
BONNY BABY COMPETITION
THE WINNER OF OUR BONNY BABY CONTEST IS...
Frank Doyle [22 months]
THE NAMA HAIRCUT: 50% OFF!
Conor McAllister of Grafton Barbers gaveve John a NAMA haircut; And last Wednesday ( hereafter to be renamed NAMA DAY) from 3 til 4, the following barbers offered a 50% off discount
Grafton Barbers
Flagship shop
51 Grafton Street
Dublin 2
01 679 6984
www.graftonbarbers.com
The Grand Barbers in Altro Vitro Grand Canal Square Dublin 2
Joe's Barber Shop at the Bull Wall Wooden Bridge in Clontarf
Razors Edge Donabate Town Centre, Dublin
Churchtown Barbers, Dublin
Ballyboden Barbers, Dublin
Ronnie Barber's, Warrington place Dublin.
And Kiddies Kuts in Dublin's Jervis centre and in Mothercare stores thoughout the country will be offering a range of discounts between now and the next budget- after all, the kids will still be paying for NAMA long after their hair has fallen out
BEGORRAH! IT'S QVC'S IRISH CELEBRATION
Two Irish gift producers join John in studio straight from their appearance on American shopping channel, QVC.
Stephen Walsh
JC Walsh Connemara Marble
Rathfarnham Village
Dublin 14
jcwalsh@connemaramarble.com
www.connemaramarble.com
Barbara Campbell
Fragrances of Ireland
Kilmacanogue
Co. Wicklow
01 2867125
01 2866501
mail@perfume.ie
www.Perfume.ie
SWIMMING FOR THEIR [IRISH] LIFE
Katriona McFadden went swimming in Dublin's Forty Foot with employees of Irish Life who are swimming the English Channel to raise funds for the Irish Cancer Society. To donate to the swimmers:
www.iasc-swim.com
PHOENIX FROM THE FLAMES
John takes a tour of Hangar 5 in Dublin Airport with Conor McCarthy of Dublin Aerospace.
Dublin Aerospace
Hangar 5
Dublin Airport
01 857 0581
conor.mccarthy@dublinaerospace.com
www.DublinAerospace.com
ANYONE FOR A GRILLING?
Dragon, Gavin Duffy, and former Presidential Advisor, Eileen Gleeson, chat with John about the changing environment for media training in the world of communications.
Gavin Duffy
www.MediaTraining.ie
Eileen Gleeson
Chairman of Weber Shandwick
www.WeberShandwick.ie
Programme 48: 5th September 2009
THE DOWNTURN IS OVER. FOR BIRTHS, ANYWAY
In the week that the Central Statistics Office announced a baby boom in Ireland, we run the inaugural The Business Bonnie Baby Contest. The judge is Aisling O'Donoghue from www.BabyTravelShop.ie in Dublin.
Aisling O'Donoghue
www.BabyTravelShop.ie
60 Merrion Square
Dublin 2
01 400 4400
sales@babytravelshop.com
OLIVER FEELS THE SQUEEZE [BOX]
Two years ago Oliver O'Connell, from Co. Clare, was employing 32 people and turning over up to EUR 5m a year in his tool hire business. When his construction-related customers started going out of business - and failing to pay their bills, it led to his own company being liquidated. But he's turned it around and has just launched a new web-based business selling a range of products for fans of traditional music - a taste of which, Oliver will be providing us with by means of his trusty accordion.
Oliver O'Connell
www.TradHead.com
MUSSEL BOUND
At the moment the Irish 'bottom culture' mussel industry is worth about €25 million per year. A new industry-wide alliance is being planned to protect the industry for the future and to make more of this uniquely Irish natural resource. Tim Desmond reports from a trade buyer's showcase held at Woodstown beach in County Waterford to promote the business and the newly formed alliance (Irish Registered Mussel Fishing Vessel Alliance). John spoke to two of the founding members:
Paul Barlow
Woodstown Bay Shellfish Limited,
The Harbour, Dunmore East,
Co Waterford.
051 383664
paulbarlo@eircom.net
Gerard Kelly,
Fresco Seafoods,
Greencastle,
Co. Donegal
074-9381356
074-938141
TOP MARKS FOR CLEAN BINS
The man in the van this week is Clive Marks, who owns and runs Enviro Clean which operates a mobile wheelie bin washing service in the Dublin area.
Clive marks
ENVIROCLEEN
Commercial & Domestic Wheeled Bin Washers
PO Box 10940
Baldoyle
Dublin 13
Tel/Fax: +353 41 981 3738
Mobile: +353 87 6872228
e-mail:envirocleen@eircom.net
DESIGN FOR LIFE
Noel Joyce had been in the Defence Forces for four years when a mountain-biking accident resulted in him losing the use of his legs. Being wheelchair bound also forced Noel to reconsider his career. While still in hospital, Noel applied to start a degree course in design at Carlow IT. His Eureka moment came three years into that course, when he came up with a new idea for wheelchair brakes that has made it to the last 15 in the global James Dyson Awards. He and backer, Michael Burke [also mentor on The Business], come into studio.
Noel Joyce
Inventor, ErgoStop
Carlow Institute of Technology
Joycey210@hotmail.com