This week we’re flying high with the Irish drone delivery company Manna.

Its founder and chief executive is Bobby Healy, who joined host Ciarán Hancock in studio to discuss what he believes is Manna’s massive growth potential.

Set up in 2019, Manna only recently began generating revenues and is yet to turn a profit. It is currently flying nine drones in Dublin 15 and has made more than 170,000 deliveries in Ireland so far.

It has another eight drones operating outside Ireland.

But that is just the tip of the iceberg.

You’ll hear Bobby’s ambitious plans for expansion into the United States and the Nordic countries and how it would need 45,000 drones just to serve the UK market.

And he wants to manufacture all of those drones in Ireland.

It’s a cash hungry company with plans to raise many millions of dollars from investors but Healy is thinking big and believes Manna can become Ireland’s biggest corporate success story.

Of course, not everyone is delighted by having drone deliveries in their areas and Healy addresses some of those complaints in the interview.

An engaging entrepreneur, Healy has previously sold three travel tech companies. So, he has form in this space.

Produced by John Casey with JJ Vernon on sound.

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Conall Mac Coille, chief economist at Bank of Ireland, joins Cliff Taylor and Ciaran Hancock to talk about Irish economic and business news:

• RPZ reform: will changes to rules for landlords and tenants help bring investment to Ireland
• IFAC report: why Ireland's corporate tax receipts may be about to boom again. But will it last?

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Donald Trump’s second term in the White House has seen markets go through a period of extreme volatility, something that has worried many Irish pension holders.

How should they react? Should they react at all? And what is the outlook for the rest of this year?

Munro O’Dwyer is a partner at PwC Ireland and joins host Cliff Taylor in studio to discuss managing your pension in volatile times.

In the second half of this episode of Inside Business, Irish Times Economics Correspondent Eoin Burke-Kennedy looks at why so many companies are pulling back from their pledge to go green and lower carbon emissions.

This alarming trend is worrying given the latest analysis by the Environmental Protection Agency that shows that Ireland is going backwards in its attempts to achieve its 2030 greenhouse gas emissions targets.

So why the about-face on an issue that affects us all? Is reaching net zero emissions simply not realistic for many companies?

Produced by John Casey with JJ Vernon on sound.

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