Breakfast Business with Joe Lynam

Newstalk's Business Editor Joe Lynam brings us Wednesday's business news headlines.

Mike Lynch used to run the chip design giant Autonomy before it was sold to HP for $12bn. HP then sued Lynch for fraudulently overstating the value of Autonomy and won in the British civil courts. His life story is fascinating from an Irish point of view because both his parents were born here and now there’s a superb book about him. It’s called ‘The Curious Case of Mike Lynch: the Improbable Life & Death of a Tech Billionaire’. And its author is Katie Prescott, the Technology Business editor with the Times of London.

Boeing sold its first plane into Ireland 65 years ago. It has since sold 1400 aircraft to Irish airlines and leasing companies making us amazingly the 3rd biggest customer in the world. Now the Seattle based plane-make is opening up a new European hub in Dublin airport - possibly to get closer to its biggest single customer. Joe was joined on the show by Jeremy Quin the President of Boeing UK & Ireland and ask him about those delays but began by asking why they had chosen Ireland.

In 2025 Ireland was the leading European domicile for active exchange-traded funds with a huge 94 per cent of market share. That data comes from Irish Funds and ETF Book. Emmet chats to Pat Lardner, Chief Executive of Irish Funds.

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