That Great Business Show

Ireland has roughly 350,000 self-employed people — many of them solo. The problem is not talent. The problem is financial control.

Sinéad Doherty, CEO & Founder of Fenero, explains the realities she sees every day supporting independent earners:
“Going solo doesn’t mean going alone” — the ecosystem you must build
Why revenue is not your income
The simplest habit to avoid tax shock: separate the tax money
Cashflow discipline, invoicing speed, and the small expenses people forget to claim
The networks and programmes that actually help you get traction
If you’re self-employed, this is the episode that stops the panic and replaces it with a system.

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Episode 283 of That Great Business Show

We normally do a 25 minute record. We thought this was sooo good that it's 47 minutes. Because who wants to spoil a great party. We didn't want to stop Mary.

Mary Sadlier, CEO of Coole Swan — the Irish cream liqueur brand that decided it wasn’t enough to be “nice”. It had to be better. And not better in a marketing-deck way. Better in taste tests. Better in ingredients. Better in margins. Better in resilience.

Coole Swan uses single malt Irish whiskey and Belgian white chocolate. That matters. Because when you go up against Baileys, you are not nibbling around the edges. You are walking into a category owned by a global giant.

This episode is about:
• What it really takes to build an Irish FMCG brand internationally
• Why distribution is harder than the product
• What happens when tariffs land out of nowhere
• Retail shelf power — and how fast you can disappear from it
• The brutal difference between cashflow and profit

Mary has been through the mill. Expansion. Contraction. Currency swings. US volatility. Decisions made without guarantees.
Things have gone very right.
Things have gone very wrong.
And the gap between the two is thinner than most founders think.
This is real business. Not pitch-deck business.

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Episode 282 — Quantum Is Coming. And Ireland Is Already In It.

Everyone is shouting about AI.
Very few people are paying attention to what comes next.
Quantum computing is not about doing things faster.
It is about doing things that were previously impossible.
Finding new drugs in days, not decades.
Optimising energy grids, logistics, traffic and supply chains that defeat today’s supercomputers.
Re-engineering AI itself so it stops burning the planet for compute.

On Episode 282 of That Great Business Show, Conall Ó Móráin sits down with Jason Lynch, CEO of Equal1 — the Irish quantum computing company that has just raised $60 million, led by Ireland’s sovereign wealth fund, to build enterprise-grade quantum computers using standard silicon chip fabs.
No sci-fi. No hype.
Just real hardware, real money, real timelines.

We talk:
• Why quantum makes AI look like the warm-up act
• Why 50 qubits beats every computer on Earth combined
• Why data centres won’t need to melt rivers to run quantum
• Why pharma, banking, energy and defence are already preparing
• Why Ireland has a once-only window to lead — and could miss it

This is a five-years-out story hiding in plain sight.
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Sales up. Bank balance looks fine. Everyone busy.
So why does the business still feel… tight?
On Episode 281 of That Great Business Show, Conall Ó Móráin is joined by accountant and business adviser Sharon Kearns, the woman who spots the leaks most business owners never see.

This is not theory.
This is what actually drains cash, time and energy from otherwise successful businesses.
We talk:
The “leaky bucket” problem most owners don’t want to face
Profitable businesses quietly losing money on certain products or services
Hidden time leaks, stock traps and invoicing sins
Why “busy” does not equal profitable
The simple fixes that free up cash fast
And the “hire in a heartbeat” answer you won’t forget

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Episode 280 – Why local newspapers still matter (and why we’d miss them if they were gone)

Confession time:
I love local newspapers.
And I cannot go past the small ads without reading every last one of them.
While national newspapers are having a torrid time — and some may not even survive this decade in their current form — one part of print is quietly going against the tide.
The local free newspaper.

On Episode 280 of That Great Business Show, Conall Ó Móráin is joined by Catherine Madden, Managing Director of the Dublin Gazette Newspaper — Dublin’s number one free weekly, reaching over 300,000 readers every week.
We talk about:
Why local papers are surviving while nationals struggle
Why small ads still work for real businesses - and that's important for your business
Who is actually keeping an eye on councils, planning and courts
Why “free” doesn’t mean low quality
And why local journalism matters more than ever
If you care about your area, your business, or who’s minding the shop locally — this one matters.

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