INGLEWOOD, Calif.—Siblings Wendell and Whitney Cole became fans of Kanye West, the artist who now goes by Ye, when they were in middle school. They went to sleep to the sounds of the album “Graduation” and woke up to it before school. Roughly two decades later, the siblings flew from New York to Los Angeles to attend Ye’s first U.S. stadium show in more than four years, as he...

As Tánaiste and Minister for Finance Simon Harris presented quarterly Exchequer figures alongside his public expenditure colleague Jack Chambers on Tuesday evening, the most crucial pieces of information were those not included. With the key month of March now banked, and a full quarter to look at, the national tax take appears to be cruising at a moderate altitude, with a 3....

Ireland continues to lag behind on sanctions enforcement in the EU with further delays in transposing an important new directive. The sanctions directive introduced clearer definitions of criminal offences and penalties for the violation of EU sanctions, including those levelled against Russia, Iran and China. Countries had a deadline of May 2025 to transpose the directive. N...

What a difference a year can make. Microsoft Ireland recently held its AI Summit event in Dublin, a gathering of partners and customers, and the change compared to last year’s event is stark.

The recurring theme last year was AI adoption. A year later, adoption isn’t the question anymore. Organisations big and small are using AI in its various forms and have moved b...

A decade ago, blockchain arrived in finance with all the subtlety of a stag party in a boutique hotel – loud, chaotic and impossible to ignore. Crypto exchanges multiplied, token launches promised to reinvent capitalism, and regulators watched warily as billions of dollars in speculative capital surged through a financial system that barely understood what had just appeared i...