Today’s Brexit vote is hugely important for Irish exporters and will set the scene for major shifts in the way business will be conducted not just with the UK but right across Ireland’s trading spectrum.

The Institute for Management Development’s (IMD’s) World Competitiveness Yearbook 2016, released last week, showed that Ireland had moved briskly up the international competitiveness ranking to seventh position globally; the most competitive country in the eurozone, and third most competitive across the EU as a whole.