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A weekly look at business and economics from an Irish perspective hosted by Irish Times Business Editor Ciarán Hancock. Produced in association with EY.

On today’s Inside Business podcast Cliff Taylor from The Irish Times discusses the latest inflation figures, and our Current Affairs Corresp...

Our guest this week on Inside Business is Edmond Scanlon, chief executive of Kerry Group, the global food ingredients player and one of Irel...

On this week’s episode of Inside Business, host Ciarán Hancock speaks to Mayo entrepreneur Ciaran Crean. Ciaran is co-founder of Micksgarage...

In the 10 years since Aimee Connolly founded the viral beauty brand Sculpted by Aimee, it’s become a multi-million euro enterprise with plan...

It’s a year on since Donald Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs and host Ciarán Hancock is joined in studio by Aidan Meagher, EY partner and co-h...

This week the Government introduced a €250 million package of measures to help businesses and households with their fuel bills over the next...

First up on this week’s Inside Business is Ireland’s housing crisis and where it is felt most – Dublin city. Mark Fitzgerald is chairman of...

First up on this week’s Inside Business is St Patrick’s Day. It’s just six days away but the festival itself is a four-day affair this year...

As the US-Israel attacks on Iran intensify and the conflict spreads in the Middle East, the impact on the world economy is already being fel...

First up on this week’s Inside Business are US tariffs. Last Friday, the Supreme Court there ruled that Donald Trump’s tariffs from last yea...

Tánaiste and Minister for Finance Simon Harris announced a plan this week to introduce a new savings scheme to unlock the €170 billion that...

First up on this week’s episode of Inside Business, we look at new research this week from Revolut suggests that social media companies made...

On this week’s episode of Inside Business, we hear the argument for scrapping mandatory retirement here. Host Cliff Taylor is joined on the...

This week on Inside Business, host Ciarán Hancock is joined in studio by Cliff Taylor to talk about the recent surge in the price of gold, w...

As the annual World Economic Forum enters its third day, host Ciarán Hancock is joined from Davos in the Swiss Alps by Irish Times Economics...

On this week’s episode, host Ciarán Hancock is joined in studio by the Irish Times economics experts Cliff Taylor and Eoin Burke-Kennedy. Te...

2025 proved to be a record year for tax receipt figures, with the total hitting €106bn. This was despite extensive warnings about the State’...

For this week’s episode, host Ciarán Hancock Is joined by an expert panel to look forward to 2026. After another record-breaking year for co...

For this episode of Inside Business, host Ciarán Hancock is joined by a panel of experts to discuss the major stories of 2025. A busy year i...

On this week’s episode of Inside Business, host Ciarán Hancock is joined by Chairman of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (Ifac) Seamus Coff...

The latest report from the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland shows that only the top 20 per cent of earners can afford to rent an avera...

On this week’s episode of Inside Business, we look at the sluggish delivery of large and necessary infrastructure projects that has been a f...

On this week’s Inside Business, host Ciarán Hancock is joined in studio by senior lecturer in housing at TUD Dublin, Lorcan Sirr. The episod...

On this week’s episode of Inside Business, we look at the role of AI in the hiring and firing of workers. Host Ciarán Hancock is joined on t...

This week on Inside Business host Ciarán Hancock is joined in studio by Gary McGann, a grandee of Irish business whose many roles included b...

This week’s episode of Inside Business sees host Ciarán Hancock joined in studio by Niall Tallon, chief executive of Irish telecoms group Im...

This week’s guest on Inside Business is Tom O’Brien, group chief executive of Nephin Energy. Nephin owns 43 per cent of the Corrib gas field...

There is research from Brussels think tank Transport & Environment suggesting that plug-in hybrids are just as polluting as petrol cars. Nei...

On this episode of Inside Business host Ciarán Hancock is joined in studio by Billy Hann, chief executive of Dublin Bus, the biggest public...

Ciarán Hancock is joined by guests to pore over the main elements of Budget 2026. The €9.4 billion package includes a minimum wage increase...

Ireland’s national soccer team will slide down the international rankings unless significant investment is made in the League of Ireland’s a...

The Pittsburgh Steelers will play the Minnesota Vikings at Croke Park this weekend in the first regular-season NFL game to take place on Iri...

First up on the Inside Business podcast this week, the rift between the board of the DAA, the State-owned operator of Dublin and Cork airpor...

With the budget just under a month away, what will ministers Paschal Donohoe and Jack Chambers deliver on October 7th? The one-off cost-of-l...

First up on Inside Business this week is the plight of independent Irish breweries, who, like so many now, are finding the cost of doing bus...

The predictably slow delivery of infrastructure here has a raft of negative consequences, not least how it undermines our competitiveness in...

The Economist magazine recently published its annual country rich list. Ireland was nowhere to be found on the list in spite of the fact tha...

This week Inside Business is looking at tourism. Data from the Central Statistics Office earlier this year suggested that the number of visi...

We start this week’s episode of Inside Business with a look at how influencers have been reminded recently by Revenue of their obligations t...

This week host Ciarán Hancock is joined in studio by economist and Irish Times contributor John FitzGerald. He gives his reaction to the EU-...

This week the Government outlined spending of €200 billion on a National Development Plan stretching over the next decade. In parallel it al...

Economist and writer David McWilliams was scathing about the level of dereliction in Dublin city in a recent article in the Irish Times. He...

This week we’re looking at the Juggle that women with young children have to make in Ireland to find a work-life balance. It’s an age-old pr...

This week we are looking at the phenomenon of the D4 farmer. Not some wealthy entrepreneur herding cattle in Ballsbridge but wealthy individ...

This week host Ciarán Hancock is joined by Willie Walsh, the director general of IATA, the Geneva-based representative group for the airline...

This week we’re flying high with the Irish drone delivery company Manna. Its founder and chief executive is Bobby Healy, who joined host Cia...

Conall Mac Coille, chief economist at Bank of Ireland, joins Cliff Taylor and Ciaran Hancock to talk about Irish economic and business news:...

Donald Trump’s second term in the White House has seen markets go through a period of extreme volatility, something that has worried many Ir...

New electric vehicle sales here dipped last year by 24% when compared to 2023, further making a mockery of the government’s target of 1 mill...

This week brought more bad news for first time buyers and those renting. Figures from both the CSO and property website Daft.ie suggest that...