Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock Podcast
1) Trump vs the Fed: What does it mean for global trade and Ireland?
On this week’s episode, host Ciarán Hancock is joined in studio by the Irish Times economics experts Cliff Taylor and Eoin Burke-Kennedy.Tensions are rising between US President Donald Trump and the F...Show More
2) Ireland’s record tax take makes light of Trump tariffs fear
2025 proved to be a record year for tax receipt figures, with the total hitting €106bn.This was despite extensive warnings about the State’s precarious position due to Donald Trump’s series of ta...Show More
3) Another huge corporate tax take to AI’s next phase: What’s in store for 2026?
For this week’s episode, host Ciarán Hancock Is joined by an expert panel to look forward to 2026. After another record-breaking year for corporate tax receipts, is there now a real threat of concentr...Show More
Another huge corporate tax take to AI’s next phase: What’s in store for 2026?
44:48 | Dec 30th, 2025
4) Trump’s tariffs, a deepening housing crisis, and more corporate tax bonanza: The big stories of 2025
For this episode of Inside Business, host Ciarán Hancock is joined by a panel of experts to discuss the major stories of 2025.A busy year in markets was dominated by US president Donald Trump’s threat...Show More
5) Could the decision to spend most of next year’s corporation tax come back to bite the Government?
On this week’s episode of Inside Business, host Ciarán Hancock is joined by Chairman of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (Ifac) Seamus Coffey to discuss his concerns on how the Government is spending...Show More
6) Why are apartments in Ireland so much more expensive to build than houses?
The latest report from the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland shows that only the top 20 per cent of earners can afford to rent an average apartment built in Ireland in 2025, w...Show More
Why are apartments in Ireland so much more expensive to build than houses?
41:32 | Dec 10th, 2025
7) Will the Government’s new plan speed up the delivery of vital infrastructure projects?
On this week’s episode of Inside Business, we look at the sluggish delivery of large and necessary infrastructure projects that has been a feature of several successive Governments.A population surge ...Show More
8) If Irish households are so rich, why does it feel like an illusion?
On this week’s Inside Business, host Ciarán Hancock is joined in studio by senior lecturer in housing at TUD Dublin, Lorcan Sirr.The episode starts with some recent good news, that the net wealth of I...Show More
9) How AI is beginning to wreak havoc in the jobs market
On this week’s episode of Inside Business, we look at the role of AI in the hiring and firing of workers.Host Ciarán Hancock is joined on the podcast by Ciara O’Brien of the Irish Times to discuss why...Show More
10) Irish business grandee Gary McGann on working with Michael Smurfit, the fall of Anglo Irish and the current state of the Irish economy
This week on Inside Business host Ciarán Hancock is joined in studio by Gary McGann, a grandee of Irish business whose many roles included being chief executive of drinks group Gilbeys, Aer Lingus and...Show More