{"id":552234,"date":"2026-07-16T06:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/552234\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T06:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:56:09","slug":"ai-trade-boost-for-economy-and-why-you-will-need-a-e41000-a-year-pension-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/552234\/","title":{"rendered":"AI trade boost for economy, and why you will need a \u20ac41,000-a-year pension \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Imports and exports of products used in the infrastructure that supports AI will have a noticeable, positive impact on Irish trade and investment this year, a new report from Ibec has found. Ian Curran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2026\/07\/16\/ai-related-trade-a-bright-spot-for-ireland-amid-trump-tariffs-whiplash-effect-says-ibec\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2026\/07\/16\/ai-related-trade-a-bright-spot-for-ireland-amid-trump-tariffs-whiplash-effect-says-ibec\/\">has the details<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Irish workers reckon they will need <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2026\/07\/16\/workers-will-need-41000-a-year-from-their-pension-for-a-comfortable-retirement\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2026\/07\/16\/workers-will-need-41000-a-year-from-their-pension-for-a-comfortable-retirement\/\">\u20ac41,000 a year from their pension<\/a> for a comfortable retirement, according to a new survey by Royal London. Barry O\u2019Halloran reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In our Ask the Lawyer column, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2026\/07\/16\/my-late-mothers-house-deeds-are-missing-can-i-get-another-copy\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2026\/07\/16\/my-late-mothers-house-deeds-are-missing-can-i-get-another-copy\/\">the house deeds<\/a> of a reader\u2019s late mother are missing and they wonder if it\u2019s possible to get another copy. Joanne Hunt gets the view of a legal expert. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In our tech column, Ciara O\u2019Brien explains how the EU\u2019s new \u20ac3-an-item charge for parcels coming from outside the bloc has become <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/technology\/2026\/07\/16\/customers-bear-the-brunt-of-eu-customs-changes\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/technology\/2026\/07\/16\/customers-bear-the-brunt-of-eu-customs-changes\/\">fertile territory for scammers<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Scotiabank Ireland is set to pay a $315 million dividend to its Canadian parent after a year of soaring profits at its Dublin-based EU hub. Joe Brennan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2026\/07\/16\/scotiabank-ireland-pays-315m-dividend-to-canadian-parent-as-profits-soar\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2026\/07\/16\/scotiabank-ireland-pays-315m-dividend-to-canadian-parent-as-profits-soar\/\">has the details<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In our Innovation feature this week, Olive Keogh meets the men who wanted to build gyms but ended up creating the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/innovation\/2026\/07\/16\/meet-the-men-who-wanted-to-build-gyms-but-ended-up-creating-software-to-run-them\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/innovation\/2026\/07\/16\/meet-the-men-who-wanted-to-build-gyms-but-ended-up-creating-software-to-run-them\/\">software to run them<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2026\/07\/15\/chinese-car-exports-topping-one-million-deepens-anxiety-in-europes-automobile-industry\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2026\/07\/15\/chinese-car-exports-topping-one-million-deepens-anxiety-in-europes-automobile-industry\/\">Chinese car exports<\/a> topping one million per month has deepened anxiety in Europe\u2019s automobile industry, writes Denis Staunton, our man in Beijing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Irish lenders will see little gain from a key part of an EU <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2026\/07\/16\/irish-lenders-to-gain-little-from-key-part-of-eu-banking-competitiveness-plan\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2026\/07\/16\/irish-lenders-to-gain-little-from-key-part-of-eu-banking-competitiveness-plan\/\">banking competitiveness plan<\/a> that is due to be unveiled on Friday, writes Cantillon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">If you\u2019d like to read more about the issues that affect your finances try signing up to <a href=\"https:\/\/theirishtimes.lt.emlnk1.com\/Prod\/link-tracker?redirectUrl=aHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ3d3cuaXJpc2h0aW1lcy5jb20lMkZuZXdzbGV0dGVycyUzRnV0bV9zb3VyY2UlM0ROZXdzbGV0dGVyJTI2dXRtX21lZGl1bSUzRGVtYWlsJTI2dXRtX2NvbnRlbnQlM0RSU1MlMjUzQUlURU0lMjUzQVRJVExFJTI2dXRtX2NhbXBhaWduJTNEYnVzaW5lc3NfdG9kYXlfZGlnZXN0&amp;sig=4kSj6MVtJhDySXD8zno7jMoXwZGc1dpLM3xhR9Fc9b5k&amp;iat=1673852841&amp;a=%7C%7C89275494%7C%7C&amp;account=theirishtimes%2Eactivehosted%2Ecom&amp;email=Dc0R66saiYNu2sbROXCOD2QOP8ZXmRzMvz3Yw%2BcA7gI%3D&amp;s=0d5371d23ecde798f8f0f88cc635413b&amp;i=21237A21683A12A963031\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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":"Imports and exports of products used in the infrastructure that supports AI will have a noticeable, positive impact&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[218,72,8319,114,176,61,60,1612,174,175],"class_list":["post-552234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-business","tag-business-today","tag-china","tag-finance","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-pension","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552234","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=552234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}