It’s fair to say that most people have had a run-in with a banking app over the years, with the offerings from the main Irish lenders facing regular criticism. So it will probably be welcome that AIB is planning to launch a “new, next generation” app for customers in the second half of this year, marking the biggest overhaul of its mobile offering in more than a decade. Joe Brennan reports on the bank’s plan, and he also has a wide-ranging interview with the bank’s chief executive Colin Hunt.

Suspended DAA chief executive officer Kenny Jacobs has initiated a High Court action against the State airports company seeking his return to work and declarations that the board has prejudged his removal from office. Arthur Beesley and Ray Managh were in court.

What should Europe do about Donald Trump? In a trenchant column, Eoin Burke-Kennedy questions its strategy up to now of essentially buttering up the US president and warns the Continent needs to toughen its stance against him.