Taking Stock

No room at the inn for tourists coming into Ireland; this week on Taking Stock Mandy Johnston talks to Mark Paul from the Irish Times to hear his views on why supply and pricing is a big issue and who is to blame. Online Bullying; Mandy talks to Dr Tijana Milosevic of the DCU Anti-Bullying Centre and ask if we are making any advances or becoming conditioned to living with online negativity. Plus Simon Kuper from the Financial times joins us to discuss his new book ‘Chums; How a Tiny cast of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK’

Banter in the workplace is often harmless in nature but in some cases it may be disguising a toxic work culture. This week on Taking Stock Mandy Johnston talks to Clinical Psychologist Anna Eliatamy about how to deal with a difficult work environment as an employee. Irish holiday makers are stuffing their wheelies and taking to the skies again with gusto, but where are they going? and how are international energy prices and supply chain issues affecting the cost of global travel and your summer breakaway? Mandy Chats to Paul Hackett, CEO of Click and Go and Travel Journalist and Broadcaster Simon Calder. Doom and gloom at Davos, economist Dan O’Brien gives us take on the prospects of a global recession and the potential end of globalisation.

This week on Taking Stock Mandy Johnston talks about the economics of golf; as the PGA Championship kicks off this weekend she is by journalist Fionn Davenport to discuss the mind boggling figures on offer to players for a breakaway tournament sponsored by money from the Middle East. A study of Irish Business has thrown up some very interesting information. It seems Irish companies are good at revealing gender diversity but not so much when it comes to disability or sexual orientation. We’ll hear about a new study which raises the question - Have we made the progress we think we have when it comes to diversity in the workplace? Plus Mandy is joined by the US Managing Editor of the Financial Times Peter Spiegel to talk about the economic and political landscape in the run-up to the US midterm elections and she’ll be asking why - despite losing the Presidential Election last year - Donald Trump is still very much in the picture.

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Many point to the invasion of Ukraine and the pandemic as the catalyst, others say it started back with the banking crisis of 2008, but are we actually witnessing the end of globalisation as we know it? Elliot Hentov, Head of Policy and Research at State Street Global Advisors joined Mandy to discuss. Quitting while you're ahead - Mandy speaks to Executive Psychologist & Coach, Jill Walker, about why some high achievers choose to step away when they are at the top of their game. And Prof. Orla Feely, President of Engineers Ireland and Vice-President for Research, Innovation, and Impact at University College Dublin joined Mandy to discuss the latest Engineers Ireland ‘Engineering 2022: A barometer of the profession in Ireland’ report. Listen and subscribe to Taking Stock on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify.      Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.     You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.