Irish bank shares join global relief rally, but jitters ahead of Fed meeting            

Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell: Investors wait nervously ahead of US rate decision on Wednesday night.         

Irish bank shares joined a relief rally of global shares, but market jitters  over whether the US central bank could add fuel to the fire by hiking interest rates on Wednesday night show that the turmoil of the past weeks is far from over. 

"While the problems at SVB (Silicon Valley Bank) and Credit Suisse had been dealt with, markets had remained edgy," said chief markets analyst Chris Beauchamp at IG, an online broker.