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Outlook 2026: Building Resilience and Value in Irish Food & Drink Exports
As Irish food, drink, and horticulture exporters look ahead to 2026, the insights from Bord Bia’s Export Performance and Prospects Report 2025–2026 reveal a sector entering a more demanding phase of growth. While export values remain strong, the environment is becoming increasingly complex, volatile, and far less forgiving of inefficiency. The year ahead will not…
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Reflecting on IFEX 2026: Conversations, Innovation & The Future of Food Manufacturing
IFEX 2026 has officially wrapped up, and what a fantastic few days it was. From the moment the doors opened, there was a real energy across the exhibition floor. It was brilliant to reconnect with familiar faces, meet new food and drink manufacturers, and have open conversations about the challenges and opportunities shaping the sector…
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Is Your Business Struggling with Too Many Systems? Here’s How to Simplify with Odoo
Having the right tools and systems in place is crucial. Yet, so many businesses face the problem of juggling too many systems, whether it’s for inventory management, finance, CRM, or customer service. As your business grows, the complexity of managing multiple software platforms often leads to confusion, inefficiency, and missed opportunities. It doesn’t help that these…
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How Manufacturers Can Thrive in 2026
UK and Irish manufacturers are facing rising costs and economic uncertainty. Despite these challenges, the focus is shifting towards strategic growth, digital innovation, and diversification. The Executive Survey 2026 from Make UK, in association with PwC UK, highlights a wave of optimism among manufacturers, with nearly two-thirds of companies believing that the opportunities ahead outweigh…
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The Reality Behind AI: Progress, Not Sentience
There is a peculiar tension at the heart of how we talk about artificial intelligence today. On one side, you have the headlines; breathless, urgent, occasionally apocalyptic. On the other, you have the engineers and developers quietly building these systems, rolling their eyes at the coverage before getting back to work. The gap between those…
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The AI Boom: Sustainable Shift or Tech Bubble?
Somewhere between the dot-com crash of 2000 and the NFT collapse of 2022, investors learned a lesson that apparently needs relearning every decade or so: not every transformative technology produces proportionate returns, and not every high valuation reflects genuine underlying value. AI is now the subject of that same uncomfortable question. Is the current wave of investment…
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AI Runs on Hardware: The Infrastructure Powering the Revolution
When most people interact with an AI tool, they experience it as software. You type something, a response appears. It feels lightweight, instant, almost ethereal. That experience is a remarkably effective illusion. Behind every AI interaction is a chain of physical infrastructure that is neither lightweight nor cheap: vast data centres consuming industrial quantities of…
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From Buzzword to Tool: How AI Fits Into Real Software Projects
There is a version of the AI conversation that happens in boardrooms and at industry conferences, and there is a version that happens in development team stand-ups and code review threads. These are not the same conversation. The boardroom version tends to be about transformation, competitive advantage, and strategic positioning. The development team version tends…

