Irish annual house price inflation reached a ten-year high in the second quarter of the year, Daft.ie said on Monday, as the market remains “starved” of new and second-hand homes. There are, however, some early signs of a “tentative” improvement in the volume of second-hand homes coming up for sale in Dublin after a relatively fallow period, according to the property website.

With oil prices set to surge on global markets following the US’s entry into Israel’s war with Iran, Irish petrol and diesel prices could be in line for steep increases in the coming weeks. Experts say the extent of the rally in crude this week will be determined by the Islamic Republic’s response.

In her FT column, Pilita Clark writes that one thing is clear in the aftermath of reports last week that a top JPMorgan banker will run the bank’s EMEA operations from New York: executives have always been able to negotiate deals that give them more freedom than the average employee. And the average employee is still a big fan of the freedom remote working offers.