Rté - The Business

Artists like the rest of us have been sticking to the 5km rules. So are they missing the wide ocean and the mountain peaks or have they been finding inspiration among the rooftops closer to home? Liam Geraghty has been finding out.

Diarmuid Gavin and Kealan Lennon, like many of us, have had to adapt to remote working, and a total change of life. They met at the preschool gates when their daughters were small. Since then they’ve acted as mentors for each other sharing their ups and downs but the pandemic has changed their mindsets.

2FM’s Aifric O’Connell has been looking at the big mistakes individuals and companies have made.

As the clocks spring forward once again, what about the world of watches? How is it coping during the pandemic? Author and watch enthusiast Shane Hegarty has been checking it out.

Stockbrokers have been making the news for all the wrong reasons in the last couple of weeks. We’re joined now by one of Ireland’s longest serving stockbrokers, Ronan Reid, who previously played tennis for Ireland, set up Dolmen Stockbrokers in the mid 90s, and later sold to Cantor Fitzgerald.

Imagine your mistake causing a hold up of $9.5 billion goods a day and a tail back of ships that would have made the M50 look like a quiet country road back in the day. Well that's what is currently happening in Suez Canal. We’re joined by Graham Parker from Kontainer.com

The Royal Canal was in the news this week with the announcement of a 130 km greenway described as turning a 225 year old engineering marvel into a respite for the modern age. To look at the business background of the canal we’re joined by Tommy Graham editor of History Ireland.

As we know businesses are doing everything they can to try to survive the pandemic. Some have chosen some very innovative solutions to bring customers in as Liam Geraghty has been finding out

Businesses like all of us are waiting with bated breath to see what comes from the cabinet meeting on Tuesday. Our next guests are clear that they want click and collect to be put back in place. We're joined by Antonia Daly, owner of Antonia’s Bookshop in Trim and Damian Duggan, director of Duggan Jewellers in Fairview in Dublin.

On Thursday March 18th, RTÉ staff started to cast their votes in a ballot on pay cuts. It’s all part of a cost cutting proposal from RTÉ, which is, by its own admission, in a bad state financially. The cuts if agreed by staff would form part of RTÉ's pledge to deliver massive cost savings. RTÉ’s director-general, Dee Forbes joins us.