E189 That Great Business Show with Conall O Morain Paul Connell, co-founder and CEO of Pure Telecom explains how his business model has changed over the years. He talks about Eir, the National Broadband Plan, SIRO and others in his sector. A lack of vision or ambition seems to be the message. Ireland is stuck at sub-IGB in most cases where broadban…

Episode 71 The Fifth Court with Peter Leonard BL and Mark Tottenham BL The Apple Tax Case Will they, won't they? Should they, would they? Questions, questions, questions about the now infamous 'Apple tax case' whereby some groups are hoping to make the Irish State accept more than €13bn in taxes they say are owed by the global iPhone maker. Meanwhi…

E188 That Great Business Show with Conall O Móráin The Business Post (previously known as the Sunday Business Post) has changed its model to attract those elusive readers. Once a weekly print publication nowadays it's a daily digital bulletin with a slimmed-down Sunday print version. Colm O'Reilly, COO of The Business Post Group, (the newspaper, an…

E70 The Fifth Court Hosts Peter Leonard BL and Mark Tottenham BL entertain a most entertaining guest on this episode. Des Geraghty, a national figure for his work in the trade union movement, former president of SIPTU, one time MEP, a writer, musician and so much more (as you'll hear) joins our two interlocutors to discuss the most interesting case…

Episode 187 That Great Business Show with Conall O Morain Tony Dignam, founder Agile Executives, bringing affordable C-Suite executives from top-end companies to your SME. He must be doing something right because he grew from five consultants to 80 (!) in just one month, He's now at 120 consultants. Previously he worked as a consultant to Bank of I…

E69 The Fifth Court with Mark Tottenham BL and Peter Leonard BL Liam Herrick, Executive Director of the Irish Council of Civil Liberties talks about the so-called 'Hate Speech' legislation and how difficult it can be to prosecute and enforce such laws. It's a very timely interview about some of the many complexities that could arise from such legis…

E186 That Great Business Show with Conall O Móráin With thanks to Mentorswork.ie - a free government funded mentoring initiative. Check in out. On this episode, 186, Dan Nugent of Amber Eyewear on why his company is now called EverAmbr. He explains why you should avoid selling 'vertically' where you can run out of headroom. His company was growing …

E68 The Fifth Court Winner Dublin Solicitors' Bar Association Legal Podcast of the Year Hosts Peter Leonard BL and Mark Tottenham BL discuss some of the biggest and best known Irish corporate law cases with one of the Big Beasts in corporate law in Ireland, solicitor and Senior Counsel Paul Egan, who has the most fascinating background in theatre, …

E185 That Great Business Show with Conall O Morain Roseanne Longmore, CEO and co-founder, Coro - the world's first baby milk flow monitor. Founded seven years ago the company has recently become an 'overnight success' completing another successful funding around, bringing to over €6m funding the company has gathered to bring its unique product to t…

E67 The Fifth Court with Peter Leonard BL and Mark Tottenham BL On this episode, former Garda sergeant now barrister, Michael Daly BL, author of a new book on drink and drug driving in Ireland discusses some of the many legal issues involved in this most contentious area of law. The book a meticulously compiled guide, unravels all the dimensions of…

E184 That Great Business Show with Conall O Morain Creganna is an outstanding Irish success story that not too many have heard of. Founded in 1980 by the late Ian Quinn, he started by making metal boxes that housed early desktop computers. With a couple of 'necessary pivots' along with way, Ian created what was one of the world’s largest maker of h…

E66 The Fifth Court Hosts Mark Tottenham BL and Peter Leonard BL have a most entertaining discussion with retired District Justice, Olann Kelleher, about his fourteen years on the bench in Cork (as well as being on the bench for the historic Munster V All-Blacks match in 1978 - including a classic one-liner from legend Moss Keane). The former judge…

E183 That Great Business Show with Conall O Morain Emily Brick, founder, Athena Analytics wants to unlock the potential of every student in every classroom. Using machine learning they say they can help schools understand a student’s unique, individual potential and ensure that no student gets missed within the school system. It's a monitoring tool…

E65 The Fifth Court Saoirse Brady, Executive Director of the Irish Penal Reform Trust, joins Peter Leonard BL and Mark Tottenham BL, to talk all things prisons related (including the problems caused by mental health issues in jails - a very, very big problem according to Saoirse). Interestingly, research from Maynooth University is showing that a b…

E182 That Great Business Show with Conall O Móráin Marion Cantillon, founder Pitseal, makers of a silage pit top-secret sealant (partly seaweed but ssshhh!) that stops the use of plastic. When the cattle eat the seaweed/silage mix so far there's a sizeable cut in the cattle methane's output. She's studying for a PhD in aspects of methane emissions.…

E64 The Fifth Court, boldly going where no legal podcast has gone before. Hosts Mark Tottenham BL and Peter Leonard BL talk to Zeldine O'Brien BL, a recognised expert in international space law who knows who 'owns' the Moon? What laws do you have to observe if you venture into outer space? Can you sell property on other planets? This is just brilli…

E181 That Great Business Show with Conall O Morain Marketing Director of PUIG (they own many of the world's biggest perfume brands), Ashley McDonnell on getting a 'no' from PUIG HR ten minutes after submitting her job application. Find out how she got hired five days later. If you work in TV, wait'll you hear what's happening in China. TV in China …

E63 The Fifth Court With two referendums (*see note below) looming, hosts Mark Tottenham BL and Peter Leonard BL invited two top law academics to studio to discuss the issues involved. Deirdre McGowan of TU Dublin and Maebh Harding of UCD are two of the authors of a book, 'Family Law in Context', a textbook for those wishing to study the latest dev…

E180 That Great Business Show with Conall O Móráin John Tuohy of OohPod has just raised a further €5.4 million to expand his parcel locker business across Ireland and next to the UK. He has 120 locations at the moment and he wants to get to 300 in the next 12 months. Next he's going to help return items for online shopping companies. His solution c…

Episode 62, hosts Peter Leonard BL and Mark Tottenham BL, discuss the Northern Ireland Troubles Legacy Act 2023 - an extremely controversial piece of legislation with well-known solicitor Darragh Mackin. "You wouldn't see the like of it in Russia." Darragh Mackin of Belfast based Phoenix Law, has been described as ‘a rising star on the internationa…

E179 That Great Business Show Ger Davis, managing director of Irish Life Health A year and a half ago, on episode 90 of That Great Business Show, we had a special recording with Professor Martin Curley, who at that time was heading the digital transformation of the Irish Health System at the HSE. His insights were truly fascinating. Martin is no lo…

E61 The Fifth Court Hosts Peter Leonard BL and Mark Tottenham BL have a wide ranging discussion with outgoing Data Protection Commissioner, Helen Dixon, about all things data protection, including the newest redress arising out of the 2018 GDPR Act, that allows for 'non material damage'. Amongst many insights she gives she says that there is excess…

E178 That Great Business Show CEO Paul Merriman, Fairstone Ireland A little over a year ago financial planning firm PAX was bought by UK wealth management company Fairstone, the first move for Fairstone into Ireland. And they have ambitious plans for Ireland. BTW, we believe Paul may have broken the Irish speech speed record during our chat! And if…

E60 The Fifth Court Interlocutors, Peter Leonard BL and Mark Tottenham BL, put the CEO of the Corporate Enforcement Authority, Ian Drennan, under the spotlight. An accountant, Ian worked on the infamous DIRT inquiry during his time with the Comptroller and Auditor General's office and he discusses those times. In 2002 he moved to the nascent Office…

E177 That Great Business Show This is simple. You have to listen to all of the podcast to find out where to go to live, (and live well) and save tax. There are (plural!) answers from Waterford's Stephanie Wickham who knows these things. The answer may surprise you, but it's so good that Stephanie is taking her own advice! Separately, Natalie Garlan…

E59 The Fifth Court The Future of Legal Practice Summit, Part 2, at The Law Society of Ireland Our award winning podcasters, Peter Leonard, BL and Mark Tottenham BL, are joined by solicitors Sonia McEntee (Cavan based) and David Peters (based in Nenagh, Tipperary) to discuss the very real threat to the legal profession in rural Ireland. In this sec…

E176 That Great Business Show with Conall O Móráin Luke Mackey is co-founder and CEO of Kota - aiming to be the Stripe of the insurance industry, allowing businesses from 2 to 200 to instantly set up pension, health insurance and life assurance providers globally with real-time enrolment, flexible contributions, and an employee app – all in one pla…

E58 The Fifth Court The Future of Legal Practice Summit, Part 1, at The Law Society of Ireland Our award winning podcasters, Peter Leonard, BL and Mark Tottenham BL, are joined by solicitors Sonia McEntee (qualified 1998, now Cavan based) and David Peters (based in Nenagh, Tipperary) to discuss the very real threat to the legal profession in rural …

On E175 That Great Business Show with Conall O Móráin Gerard Horn is the third generation of the Horn family that has been making gloves in Dublin. Back in the 1960s they were employing more than a 100 people, making gloves fro Christian Dior, Harrods, Bloomingdales and Saks. They also had a contract to supply 10,000 First Communion gloves. The dis…

In a change to the regular podcast format our two co-presenters, Mark Tottenham BL and Peter Leonard BL, discuss a case that has fascinated Mark for years. It's Griffith V Griffith, a case from 1944, that demonstrates the massive shifts in Irish life since that time. It's a case that involves a weekend away in Howth, sex outside marriage, a pregnan…

E174 That Great Business Show with Conall O Morain With thanks to De Facto Shave.dot com Brian O’ Donoghue, Director - AML, FinCrime, Risk, Governance, Regulatory @ Grant Thornton Ireland Brian tells us about some brilliant, but well hidden, government funded upskilling programmes particularly in his own fintech area. He found his course by chance …

On Episode 56 Martin Bradley, an archivist and recently qualified barrister, talks about cultural heritage and the repatriation of cultural artefacts. But first our hosts, Peter Leonard BL and Mark Tottenham BL, asked Martin what made him turn his back on the GLAM sector. The GLAM sector? Listen to find out all about it as well as what the rights a…

E137 That Great Business Show Phone maker Apple ($165 billion in cash on balance sheet) and Goldman Sachs are joining forces to take on the US savings market - it's not quite banking, yet, but it does mean savers will have high yield accounts in their pockets, ready for spending. Who gets your spending pattern knowledge? Apple, with 2 billion devic…

Three Irish women, Jenny O'Connell, Louise O'Riordan and Aoife Matthews, based in different countries, selling their high-end women’s health supplement to the world. Developed solely with the female in mind, because women are not small men – is what they say. And, unbelievably, women were only included in clinical trials only from 1993 onward. And …

E172 That Great Business Show with Conall O Móráin Short, simple and to the point. Tony Dunne, Country Manager USA with the Bank of Ireland shares his amazing Rolodex or contacts book with Team GBS, our loyal listeners. He starts by saving businesses who want to set up business in the US one or two million dollars. Not bad in just 24 minutes. He ca…

Episode 55 The Fifth Court - Ireland's legal podcast On this episode hosts Peter Leonard BL and Mark Tottenham BL talk to Mark Garrett, two years into his role as Director General of the Law Society of Ireland. This is a fantastic insight into what the challenges for the solicitor's profession may be in the coming years, and what the Law Society is…

E171 That Great Business Show with Conall O Morain With thanks to Daft.ie This is something very special. It'll take you a while to find out what guest Ruairi Curtin, New York out of Cork, does. We don't want to spoil the surprise. He used to work with Enterprise Ireland and maybe, just maybe, he may have done a little bit of double-jobbing there. …

Episode 54 The Fifth Court Hosts Peter Leonard BL and Mark Tottenham BL interview Sarah Reid BL (2008) and Aran Grealish BL (2022), about their book The Devil's Handbook. No, not a recipe for magic spells, but an essential primer for those starting out at the bar. Our two hosts also discuss three more current cases from the Decisis.ie Law Reports c…

Episode 170 That Great Business Show with Conall O Móráin Highly Commended Award, Irish Podcast Awards Conor Kelly has been working, working, working since he was...very young. A milk round made him the wealthiest of his young teen peers. DJ'ing and Ikea sent him through college in Dublin. A natty Covid invention got him to his Masters in London. H…

E53 The Fifth Court, presented by Mark Tottenham BL and Peter Leonard BL Running the same legal practice for 140 years. How do you do it? Pearts is a byword in the Irish legal scene, particularly for its 'Town Agency' practice that represents 850 solicitors right across the country. Founded in 1883 the practice is now run by 4th generation Valerie …

Episode 169 That Great Business Show with Conall O Móráin 'Highly Commended Award Winner', Irish Podcast Awards Ciara Stanley is Powerhouse Female Entrepreneur of the Year. Find out why. Could it be because she's boss at embroidery business Ardattin Embroidery, or that she’s also the boss at Ballybar Ireland, her own clothing line and yet again, it…

E52 The Fifth Court The world of arbitration in sport. Fantastic insight into the similarities and the differences between how the rules and regulations of different sporting codes are applied, both in Ireland and across the globe. Sports arbitration barristers Aoife Farrelly who has a major involvement with the GAA (and tug-of-war!) is joined by b…

E168 That Great Business Show Winner Highly Commended Award, Business Podcast, Irish Podcast Awards Presenter Conall O Morain talks to three more great businesses Polar Ice Tech - CEO Damien McDonnell and GM Mairead O'Donnell explain all about their business-to-business 'ice' cleaning company. They're hyper efficient, holding their management meeti…

E51 The Fifth Court Hosts Peter Leonard BL and Mark Tottenham BL talk to Irish Times journalist, Ronan McGreevy, co-author a new book about the 1983 IRA kidnapping of Don Tidey called, 'The Kidnapping: A hostage, a desperate manhunt and a bloody rescue that shocked Ireland'. Now, 40 years after the event, the book comes as a timely reminder of the …

E167 That Great Business Show Mary Ann Pierce, MAP Digital, explains The New York Minute. It's all about the guilders, the Dough Ray Me....how to do business the All-American way, how to get your kids the best JI visa start in the US, why you have to 'pay it forward', why there's no space for false modesty, why abrupt is actually not abrupt, why fa…

E50 The Fifth Court. Presenters Mark Tottenham BL and Peter Leonard BL continue their chat about the seismic McGee V AG case, fifty years ago, with Supreme Court judge, Mr. Justice Gerard Hogan. (Make sure to listen back to E49 for the first part of this riveting chat). He talks about the David Norris case and its importance. The two also discuss t…

E166 That Great Business Show It may sound like something from the old Soviet Union, but the Fractional Marketing Collective is a new business, and it’s going to save your business money. It’s brought to you by the same people who bring you the Indie List – that’s a listing business where a very large number of creatives are available to work on yo…

E 49 The Fifth Court's interlocutors, Peter Leonard BL and Mark Tottenham BL have a fascinating discussion with Mr. Justice Gerald Hogan of the Supreme Court. This is required listening for anyone interested in Irish constitutional law. Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court gave a seismic judgement on the 19th of December 1973 in the McGee v. The Atto…

E48 The Fifth Court with Peter Leonard BL and Mark Tottenham BL Barry Andrews, Dublin MEP and former barrister joins The Fifth Court to talk about his careers as a lawyer, a national and a European politician, his lawyer/politician dad, David Andrews (88) who was Minister for Foreign Affairs during the Good Friday Agreement negotiations and his gra…

Neil McDonnell CEO and Marc O'Dwyer, Chair, both of ISME on the possibility of higher corporation tax, the rise in the national minimum wage, the rise in sick days allowance leading to a 'sicker society', the lack of understanding of what it takes to run a successful small business, Ireland is a very hard place to keep a business going. 15.00" What…