Remote and hybrid working job offers hit a record high last year

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The number of Irish job postings offering remote or hybrid work arrangements rose to a record high last year despite several well-known companies issuing return-to-office mandates to staff, according to recruitment platform Indeed’s latest Irish jobs and hiring trends report. Eoin Burke-Kennedy has the details.

Tech stocks tumbled on Monday after Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek stunned Silicon Valley with advances apparently achieved with far less computing power than US rivals. At one point, Nvidia was down 16 per cent, having shed more than $600 billion of its market value.

Green mortgages: How they work, who is eligible and where to find the best rates? Cian O’Connell answers these and other questions in our Your Money feature.

In our Your Money Q&A, a reader rents out a small country house for holiday lets and wonders where they can go for professional advice on managing the property and dealing with their tax obligations. Dominic Coyle offers a view.

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Groundhog Day? With Donald Trump back in the White House it feels more like Groundhog Decade, writes our columnist Laura Slattery.

In Me & My Money, singer Sandy Kelly relays how she’s so obsessed with her recent purchase of a slow cooker that “I think I’ll buy another one”. She spoke with Tony Clayton-Lea.

This year’s St Patrick’s Day parade will, literally, reach greater heights in 2025. “We’re going for elevation this year. A lot of the floats will be a lot taller,” said the St Patrick’s Festival chief executive Richard Tierney tells Laura Slattery.

In spite of having to trim its full year passenger forecasts due to delays in the delivery of Boeing aircraft and the crimp on its growth out of Dublin due to the passenger cap, there are reasons to be cheerful about Ryanair, writes Cantillon.

Donald Trump’s return signals a bumpy ride for markets and companies this year, writes Stocktake.

Cantillon, meanwhile, gives his take on Trump’s zero-sum trade policy: co-operate or else

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