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Irish Independent
29-05-2025
- Automotive
- Irish Independent
The Big Tech Show: From cookery demos to Ford's first female UK-Ireland boss, Lisa Brankin has a plan to revive Ford's sales with EVs
Lisa Brankin, chair and managing director of Ford in Britain and Ireland, joins Adrian Weckler on this episode of the Big Tech Show. The managing director grew up in county Antrim just outside Lisburn and used to help her father at work, who was a self-employed coal merchant. Lisa Brankin attended the University of Ulster in Jordanstown and studied home economics. The Antrim native went on to work for British Gas as a home service advisor where she did cooking demonstrations. However, the managing director made the move to Ford because she said she was fed up being called a professional housewife. You can listen to the full episode here on the Irish Independent website or wherever you get your podcasts.
Irish Independent
27-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
The Indo Daily: Phallic rockets and fake astronauts – the case for space with Leo Enright
Today's episode of the Indo Daily comes from our sister podcast the Big Tech Show. Adrian Weckler is joined by veteran space commentator Leo Enright to dissect the latest sub-orbital escapades, including Jeff Bezos's recent Blue Origin flight with an all-female crew. They delve into the scientific merits – or lack thereof – of such missions and discuss whether media personalities like Gayle King can rekindle public interest in the cosmos. It's a grounded conversation about what's really happening above our heads. Make sure to follow the Big Tech Show wherever you get your podcasts.
Irish Daily Mirror
25-04-2025
- Business
- Irish Daily Mirror
Revolut to start offering mortgages to Irish customers as early as this year
Financial tech company Revolut could start offering mortgages to Irish users as soon as the end of this year in a major boost for prospective homeowners and mortgage switchers. Revolut has long made known its intention to enter the Irish mortgage market in its quest to become a one-stop financial services provider — or a 'super app' — going beyond its current offerings of payments services, crypto and stock trading and savings accounts. At the end of last year, Revolut, which has more than three million customers in Ireland, confirmed plans to launch its mortgage product in Lithuania "followed by Ireland and France in 2025". "The goal is to offer a fully digital mortgage product that is the fastest on the market, aiming to issue instant approval in principle and final offer in one business day subject to asset valuation and any necessary checks," Revolut announced at the company's The Revolutionaries event in November. Speaking to the Irish Times, Joe Heneghan, chief executive of Revolut Europe, said that the company expects to soft launch mortgages in Ireland as soon as the third quarter of this year for testing, before launching altogether toward the end of 2025. 'We think the mortgage process that customers go through at the moment [generally] is unwieldy and can be made a lot slicker,' Mr Heneghan told the newspaper. Last year, Mr Heneghan said that the company's IT capability will be able to 'make the customer journey a lot faster and a lot less onerous for the consumer' when compared to applying for a mortgage with a traditional Irish bank. Revolut co-founder Nikolay Storonsky has previously said that customers will soon be able to apply for mortgages through the Revolut app, adding that the process would be much quicker than applying for a mortgage with a traditional bank. 'We will definitely do mortgages for consumers,' he told the Irish Independent's Big Tech Show podcast back in 2022. 'Because when I look at all the mortgage processes, it can take one to two months. At best, it's seven days. It's all quite 'legacy'.' Outlining how a Revolut mortgage would work, Storonsky explained: 'It could be one of two models, or a combination. 'The first one is a mortgage financed by us as a bank. Or it could be like a mortgage introduction. But ultimately what we want to build is a frictionless experience that is 100 per cent digital, so that within the app you apply for the mortgage, select the house that you want to buy and then be emailed at the same time. "Everything would be instant and automated.'
Irish Independent
24-04-2025
- Science
- Irish Independent
The Big Tech Show: Phallic rockets and fake astronauts: the case for space with Leo Enright
Leo Enright, space commentator, former RTE and BBC correspondent joins Adrian on the Big Tech Show. Adrian began the conversation by asking was there any scientific merit to the Blue Origin New Shephard rocket which last week made a sub-orbital flight with an all-female crew to the edge of space and back. The space commentator stated that there was next to no scientific value in the Jeff Bezos backed space exploration. However, Leo Enright did point out that Gail King was the first American journalist in space and he is hopeful that she will once again popularise space exploration amongst the American public. You can listen to the full episode here on the Irish Independent website or wherever you get your podcasts.
