{"id":162174,"date":"2025-11-27T08:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T08:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/162174\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T08:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T08:48:09","slug":"the-bridging-loan-is-back-and-how-ai-has-upended-internet-searches-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/162174\/","title":{"rendered":"The bridging loan is back and how AI has upended internet searches \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

A major shake-up of the Irish mortgage market<\/a> is on the horizon in the new year with Bank of Ireland set to launch a new type of bridging finance to allow homeowners trade up or down without first having to sell the home they live in. Conor Pope has the details. <\/p>\n

In our tech feature, Ciara O\u2019Brien looks at how artificial intelligence<\/a> has shaken up competition in the online search and browser market.<\/p>\n

UK chancellor Rachel Reeves<\/a> delivered her second tax-and-spend budget on Wednesday. Our London correspondent Mark Paul offers this analysis from Westminster.<\/p>\n

Tech giant Microsoft<\/a> is celebrating 40 years in Ireland and a new report commissioned by the company shows that it has contributed \u20ac4.9 billion to Ireland\u2019s economic output over the past year. Colin Gleeson has the details. <\/p>\n

Many members of the RDS<\/a> are ticked off at having been issued with a directive to use the Laya Arena name for their hallowed turf following the formal announcement of a naming rights deal with the health insurer this week. To them, the RDS will always be the RDS, writes Cantillon. <\/p>\n

Our Innovator to Watch<\/a> is Meg Brennan, the founder of insect-monitoring device company Polliknow, which uses AI and solar-powered ground sensors to continuously monitor an area without disturbing the ecosystem.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re in the market for open-fit ear buds<\/a>, you will want to read Ciara O\u2019Brien\u2019s review of the Shokz OpenDots One product. <\/p>\n

Europe\u2019s tech sector<\/a> is evolving fast. But is it fast enough? asks FT columnist John Thornhill. <\/p>\n

Rising revenues at major Irish gym chains<\/a> shows the popularity of fitness is more than just a fad, writes Cantillon. <\/p>\n

If you\u2019d like to read more about the issues that affect your finances try signing up to On the Money<\/a>, the weekly newsletter from our personal finance team, which will be issued every Friday to Irish Times subscribers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major shake-up of the Irish mortgage market is on the horizon in the new year with Bank…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,7863,8319,61,60,90541,18781,72306,80],"class_list":["post-162174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-bank-of-ireland","tag-business-today","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-laya-health","tag-rachel-reeves","tag-rds","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}