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Hewlett Packard Enterprise headquarters in Texas. The Galway operation has spent more than €2 million on exit packages for staff since announcing a large hiring drive in 2023. Photograph: Mark Felix/Bloomberg
Hewlett Packard Enterprise headquarters in Texas. The Galway operation has spent more than €2 million on exit packages for staff since announcing a large hiring drive in 2023. Photograph: Mark Felix/Bloomberg

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Galway operation has spent more than €2 million on exit packages for staff since announcing a large hiring drive in 2023. Killian Woods has the details.

“I have made a profit on shares I own. What happens if I leave them to my wife when I die?” says a reader in our personal finance Q&A. Dominic Coyle has the answer. If you’d like to read more about the issues that affect your finances try signing up to On the Money, the weekly newsletter from our personal finance team, which will be issued every Friday to Irish Times subscribers.

A century ago, Irish emigrants rarely got the opportunity to return home. Now, a large number return after a decade with valuable skills and experience that hugely benefit the Irish economy, writes our columnist John FitzGerald.

Uisce Éireann has shifted its focus to facilitate housing to help meet the Government’s target of 300,000 new homes by 2030. Ellen O’Riordan tells the story.

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Only 18 per cent of small businesses in Ireland have reported incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) into their business models, with more than half not doing so at all, a recent survey by the Small Firms Association has found. Stephen Conneely reports.

In Me & My Money, David Keogh, chief executive of cosmetic surgery group Auralia says ‘anybody below the age of 40 without a pension is making a huge mistake’. He spoke to Tony Clayton-Lea.

In an AI world and amid uncertainty over the future of many traditional careers, we should still encourage our children to aim for the stars, writes FT columnist Andrew Hill.

Ireland needs to widen scope of the R&D tax credit to attract more investment, writes Ian Collins, a partner and head of innovation incentives at EY Ireland.

The 24-year-old AI prophet in Silicon Valley, with early backing from the Collison brothers, who learned the oldest rule of investing. Stocktake tells the story of Leopold Aschenbrenner.

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