Ian Guider: A year in which the tech sector slumped, inflation roared back and Irish banks did well

It was a year when one global threat replaced another. When inflation roared for the first time in a generation. When central banks finally called a halt to a decade of ultra cheap money.

It was a year when governments dug deep to pay for the cost of rising energy. A year when the bubble appears to have burst in the technology sector. A year when the caricature of Elon Musk as a megalomaniac became ...