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.

When voices as diverse as Greenpeace, the Irish Farmers’ Association, and some of Britain’s most eccentric Colonel Blimp champions of Brexit agree, and when Europe’s trades union and France’s Front National’s Marine Le Pen find common cause, it is time to sit up and take notice. 

Economic sentiment across the EU has fallen sharply in August to reach levels last seen since Lehman Brothers collapsed in Sept 2008.

THE European Central Bank said it will lend dollars to eurozone banks in a series of three-month loans as the region’s debt crisis limits market access to the US currency.