They used to be known as industrial estates but given very few of them physically make stuff these days, they’re now known as business districts. And Sandyford in south Dublin is the biggest in employment terms in the State housing as it does the likes of Microsoft, MasterCard and the Beacon hospital. Now the SBD wants to copy the highly successful Station F in Paris to attract the next generation of technology wizards. To chat more Joe spoke to Ger Corbett, chief executive of the Sandyford biz district.

Tuesday's business news review along with Joe Lynam.

It's time to dig out your wellies for the National Ploughing Championships. But a new study from the consultants Ifac suggests that tariffs and geopolitics mean that a record 44% of food producers are pausing investment . Despite 80% feeling very positive about their own company’s outlook All to discuss with David Leydon, Group Head of Growth and Agrifood Consulting at Ifac.

More than a quarter of Irish adults still have no financial arrangements at all for their retirement, according to new research published today by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission. All to discuss with Grainne Griffin, Director of Communications at the CCPC.

Solid Fuel Merchants Ireland has warned that fuel smuggling and courier-dropped pallets are now at an all-time high, threatening rural jobs and depriving the exchequer of vital revenue.

Joining Jonathan to discuss more was Colin Ahern, Chair of Solid Fuel Merchants Ireland.

Energy costs, global uncertainty and labour shortages are the top concerns for Irish businesses, in a new survey from Irish B2B telecommunications provider IP Telecom, whose Chief Commercial Officer Robin Russell joined Emmet this morning on the show.

The ACORNS programme has been designed to support early-stage female entrepreneurs living in rural Ireland and runs over six months part-time.

It is centered around interactive round table sessions that are facilitated by female entrepreneurs, known as ‘Lead Entrepreneurs’, who have started and successfully grown businesses in rural Ireland. Among those Lead Entrepreneurs is Geraldine Jones founder and Chief Executive of Skin Formulas,

The vast majority of corporation tax receipts come from a handful of American companies based here. It’s because of that overdependence and the increasingly unreliable behaviour of the American administration, that small businesses need to be encouraged and fostered to avoid what ISME refers to as “sleepwalking into economic peril“. The Small Business lobby group also wants a so called “reset on the national minimum wage calculation”

All to discuss with Neil McDonnell the Chief Executive of ISME.