District heating is where local homes and businesses get their heating from a single building in the area which itself gets that energy from renewable sources such as heat pumps or solar. Ireland has the lowest amount of renewably sourced heat in all of Europe. The Scandinavians are streets ahead of us. Copenhagen has 3000km of pipework for district heating - while Dublin has only 2. But fear not only 2 weeks ago the very first district heating scheme was announced in Ireland and it's good news for my next guest who specialises in it having lived in Denmark for many years. David Connolly, chief executive of HeatGrid.ie and the Newstalk Green Biz person of the month with Repak joined Joe Lynam on the show.

Poolbeg Pharma, named after the infamous Red & white towers has been working on some very exciting new ideas including a new cancer immunity drug and a potential weight loss tablet. But most early drug developments fail to make it to the final round of testing on humans because it’s so risky and so expensive. And what does a pharma company like Poolbeg make of the EU-US trade deal with its 15% tariffs thus far? Jeremy Skillington, is the chief executive of Poolbeg pharma and joined Joe Lynam on the show this morning.

Joe Lynam takes a run through Wednesday's business news headlines.