Rté - The Business

People up and down the country are celebrating Pride. We’re joined now by a couple who’ll be doing just that later on. Gavin McConnon and Brendan Spratt opened their first F45 training facility four years ago while starting into a surrogacy process.

Late next week we’ll find out when we can dine indoors. It’s looking more and more likely that further delays are possible. For a snapshot of how this is impacting one restaurateur in Sligo we’re joined by Anthony Gray of Hooked and Eala Bhán.

As conversations continue around the vaccine rollout, we’re joined by one of Moderna’s co founders. Dr Kenneth Chien was one of four who set up the company around a decade ago. He says people assumed it was a furniture company, but now they’re a global name with a multi billion dollar valuation.

It seems revenge is a dish best served in the sun. This week Arlene Foster tweeted about enjoying an outdoor lunch while the DUP fell apart. Ill feeling is common in the corporate world too. We're joined by Louise Campbell, of Robert Walters Recruitment and Adam Maguire of RTE.

This week a French court ordered IKEA to pay a €1m fine for spying on its French staff, after the world's biggest furniture retailer was found guilty of improperly gathering and storing data on its employees. Should we all be concerned about Big Brother at work? Liam Geraghty has been snooping around.

Ronaldo pushed two bottles of coke aside at a press conference and Coca Cola’s market value dropped 4 billion. This highlighted the risks for brands in a social media age. Many brands are paying sports stars huge amounts of money to endorse their products. To tell us more we’re joined by Trevor Twamley Co founder of Sport Endorse Ltd.

This week was the biggest week yet for the state in terms of vaccine roll-outs. Never have pharmaceutical companies been in the news so much. Our guest Pat McCarthy has jumped on the bandwagon with a book on the history of the Irish pharmaceutical industry.

We’re joined by a father and daughter who run a business with a musical edge. Philip King and his daughter Molly are two members of The South Wind Blows team. Molly’s triplet sisters are also involved and their mum Nuala O’Connor is a co-founder of the company.

European regulators have found Insurance Ireland breached EU antitrust rules by restricting competition in the motoring market. To discuss Ireland's insurance market we’re joined by Peter Boland of Alliance for Insurance Reform and Arianna Podesta, spokesperson for competition for the European Commission.

As school tour season reaches its peak, it’s big business for some companies. We’re joined by 2FM’s, Aifric O’Connell to talk about the most memorable school trip moments.

The Government is putting in place legislation on greater sick pay leave, to be phased in by 2025. The move has been broadly welcomed by unions representing workers. It’s another long awaited move on the history of workers rights as historian Niamh Puirseil explains.

This week Facebook announced it would allow staff to work from home permanently, with employees allowed to clock in from different countries. With a return to the office coming for Irish workers later this summer, where does working from home stand? We’re joined from Cork by John Riordan of Shopify and chairman of Grow Remote.

Julie Ennis knows all about customer service. Just days before the pandemic, she took on the role of CEO of Corporate Services UK and Ireland for Sodexo, a company that does full workplace services for other companies. They work for the likes of Microsoft, Pfizer and even schools. She joins us.

A video of a woman spitting on a security man after being ejected from Harrods went viral this week. According to researchers anger is on the rise, so are businesses seeing more people throwing a strop in the shop? Liam Geraghty has been hearing about the messers to the more menacing customers.

Brown Thomas and Arnotts could be changing owners. The Weston family who own Selfridges Group may be considering a sale after being approached by a potential buyer with an offer of over £4bn. What could this mean for their Irish assets? We're joined by retail consultant and former marketing director at Arnotts, Eddie Shanahan.

As the sun shone across the country this week did you manage to skive off work and get out into it? Comedian Gearoid Farrelly is a big believer in being work shy when the sun shines.

We know that the costs of the pandemic on our finances will be huge, but what about the impact on our mental health? Will employers be facing a very different workforce when we return to the office? We’re joined by Malachy O’Connor, director of Uspire Ireland and psychotherapist and burnout strategist Siobhan Murray.

The ransomware attack on the HSE is still causing difficulties three weeks on. But the HSE is just one of many Irish organisations targeted by cyber criminals each year. To talk us through the murky online world of cyber crime we’re joined by Paul Johnstone, Detective Sergeant with the Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau.

One business whose machines didn’t slow down this year is Shuttle Knit, an all-female Traveller led business in Wicklow. The enterprise saw sales soar as more people shopped online during the pandemic. To tell us about the hard work and camaraderie of their close-knit group we're joined by founders Kathleen Berry and Patricia O’Brien.

June Bank Holiday weekend will be one of excitement for some businesses. On Monday, Pubs and cinemas will be among those allowed to throw open their doors to punters once again. We’re joined by Charlene Lydon, from The Lighthouse Cinema in Dublin’s Smithfield, and Daniel Smith, a bar man in Grogan’s pub in Dublin’s Castle Street.