Market maintains steady advance

The Iseq Index continued its upward momentum on the back of last week’s EU deal which could help lessen Ireland’s debt burden.

The benchmark index of Irish shares closed up 12.8 points to 3,161.4.

In the financial sector AIB and Bank of Ireland saw gains with the former rising 0.4c to 7.1c and the latter tacking on 0.7c to 10.7c.