That Great Business Show

Brexit, Britain and the business opportunity Ireland shouldn’t ignore

A lot of Irish businesses quietly turned their backs on the UK after Brexit — paperwork, friction, hassle.

But here’s the thing:
The UK never stopped being one of Ireland’s biggest trading partners.
In Episode 279 of That Great Business Show, Conall Ó Móráin talks to Billy Griffin, Vice President of BITA, about why now may be the time for Irish businesses to take a fresh look at Britain — and where the real opportunities (and blockages) lie.
We cover:
Why Brexit is still costing UK growth — and what that means for Ireland
How red tape, permits and skills recognition are quietly choking trade
Why services travel better than goods post-Brexit
The surprising truth about doing business in Manchester vs London
What BITA actually delivers beyond business cards and bad coffee
As always, we bring you insight, not hype.

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On Episode 278 of That Great Business Show, Conall Ó Móráin is joined by Aidan Donnelly, Head of Equities at Davy Private Clients, for a plain-English global market update — and a hard look at the biggest investment story of our time: artificial intelligence.

Markets have rallied.
Investors have relaxed.
But a simple question sits underneath it all:
What happens when companies start lending money to their own customers just to keep the story going?
In this episode, Aidan explains:
why AI is transformative — but valuations still matter
how today’s AI boom is being funded
why debt is quietly replacing equity
what happens when sellers subsidise buyers
and why “everyone cheering” is not an investment strategy
No jargon. No hype.
Just a calm explanation of where risk may be building — and what investors should really be watching.

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On Episode 277 of That Great Business Show, Conall Ó Móráin speaks with James Flynn, co-founder and CEO of Coso.ai the Irish startup automating one of the biggest headaches in small business: social media.
Most SMEs know they should post.
Most don’t have time.
Most can’t justify agency fees.
Coso.ai solves that problem by automatically writing, scheduling and publishing social media content — without needing a full-time marketer or a €2,000-a-month retainer.

In this episode, James explains:
why 90 percent of SMEs don’t have a social media manager
how Coso.ai actually works in practice
why AI failed before ChatGPT — and why it works now
how Coso.ai is raising €5 million to scale internationally
why AI isn’t replacing marketers, but rescuing business owners

This is AI doing something useful — reducing cost, saving time, and fixing a real business problem.
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On Episode 276 of That Great Business Show, Conall Ó Móráin sits down with Scott Baigent (Kiwi) and Cameron "Cam" Wallace (Aussie), founders of Eight Degrees Brewing in Mitchelstown, Cork.

Their story is business at its rawest.
They arrived in Ireland for love.
They stayed for negative equity.
They helped kick-start the Irish craft beer movement.
They created 88 unique beers, won global awards, sold the business to Irish Distillers… and then, when most people would have gone to the beach, they bought the brewery back again.

On this episode, they talk honestly about:
how hard early-stage business really is
being pushed off supermarket shelves
financing massive infrastructure with no outside investors
shipping a brewery from Mauritius to Mitchelstown
selling out, buying back, and starting again
and why reinvention is not optional in tough markets

This is a masterclass in graft, resilience, and staying in the game when the odds are stacked.
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Think you can’t take on a €73 billion global industry from a kitchen table in West Cork? Think again.

On Episode 275 of That Great Business Show, Conall Ó Móráin meets Fiona Parfrey, co-founder of Riley — the Irish B Corp that’s ripping the plastic out of period care and building a business that’s already in 35 countries and 350 corporate bathrooms.

From a glass-of-wine idea to €1.5 million in funding, Fiona explains how smart branding, ruthless focus and a taboo-busting mission are turning Riley into one of Ireland’s fastest-scaling exports.
Fiona would love to 'hire in a heartbeat' Dr Hazel Wallace.

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