{"id":378274,"date":"2026-04-02T12:59:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T12:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/378274\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T12:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T12:59:15","slug":"a-solution-for-dodgy-boxes-and-apple-at-50-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/378274\/","title":{"rendered":"A solution for dodgy boxes and Apple at 50 \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aer Lingus<\/a> is facing legal action by a pilot suspended from its Manchester base, which the Irish airline closed on Tuesday of this week. Barry O\u2019Halloran has the details. <\/p>\n

Will the supply shock to jet fuel<\/a> drive up air fares this summer? Colin Gleeson goes through the issues that might lead to an increase in air fares this summer. <\/p>\n

In his tech column, Emmet Ryan has a solution to eliminating the need for people to get dodgy boxes<\/a> to watch live sport. <\/p>\n

Should you live in employer-provided or subsidised housing<\/a>? Margaret Ward examines the pros and cons in our weekly Work feature. <\/p>\n

Tech giant Apple<\/a> has turned 50. Ciara O\u2019Brien looks at the high and lows of a company behind the iPhone, iPad and Mac computers. <\/p>\n

EY has revealed its shortlist <\/a>for its annual Entrepreneur of the Year programme. Ian Curran has the details of the 31 entrepreneurs who are representing 24 companies in the process. <\/p>\n

\"\"Iran\u2019s cyber-attacks on Irish-based companies and the ongoing impact of conflict in the Middle East<\/p>\n

Irish property insurance holders<\/a> find the claims process stressful, and although a large proportion of those who make successful claims are dissatisfied with the outcome, a majority are not confident enough to challenge their insurer\u2019s decision, according to new research. Ian Curran reports. <\/p>\n

Does the hospitality sector<\/a> really need the reduced VAT, value added tax rate that it is set to receive from July? New research this week from F\u00e1ilte Ireland doesn\u2019t necessarily back up the case, argues Cantillon. <\/p>\n

Cantillon also argues that the Government is over-reaching with changes to the law on tax appeals<\/a> that will force the naming of those challenging a tax assessment in all but exceptional cases. <\/p>\n

Why do politicians want AI to go faster<\/a>? asks FT columnist Sarah O\u2019Connor. <\/p>\n

In our tech review, Ciara O\u2019Brien puts the Cricut Joy 2 <\/a>to the test and concludes that the updated machine is a \u201cmini crafting powerhouse\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aer Lingus is facing legal action by a pilot suspended from its Manchester base, which the Irish airline…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[601,936,218,72,8319,40229,61,60,1962],"class_list":{"0":"post-378274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-aer-lingus","9":"tag-apple","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-business-today","13":"tag-ey","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-work"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378274","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=378274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}