That Great Business Show

Most business owners think profit means success.
It doesn’t.

ON Episode 286 of That Great Business Show, Conall Ó Móráin sits down with Caroline Kirrane, CFA, former Central Bank economist, and the person Irish executives call when they realise they’ve been nodding at spreadsheets they don’t understand.

This episode explains, in plain English:
• Why profit is not cash
• How fast growth can bankrupt you
• The silent danger of “bad revenue”
• Why Ryanair’s ruthless simplicity is a masterclass in strategy
• The real reason businesses run out of money while sales are booming

If you run a business in Ireland, the UK or anywhere with invoices and overdrafts, this episode could save you.

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The Gaeltacht Advantage: Free Green Energy, Global Talent & Why the West Is Winning

Many people think rural Ireland is at a disadvantage.
Tomás Ó Síocháin says the opposite.
On Episode 285 of That Great Business Show, we uncover the Gaeltacht Advantage — a combination of green energy surplus, digital hubs, global connectivity and a quality of life that multinational executives quietly crave.
We talk about:
• Why the West Coast may become an energy superpower
• Free green electricity — yes, free
• Digital hubs where good coffee builds global companies
• AI in Irish and the race to make Gaeilge future-proof
• Why data centres belong in the West
• The diaspora effect: how culture closes global deals
• Housing, infrastructure and the fight to keep communities alive

If you think Dublin is the only game in town, think again.
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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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