THOUSANDS of motorists got the opportunity to fly over the so-called ‘magic roundabout’ yesterday, thus avoiding one of the country’s most notorious bottlenecks.

A €50 MILLION flyover on one of the country’s most chaotic junctions will open this morning — the start of one of the busiest weekends on the roads.

THE markets reacted as anticipated yesterday as uncertainty over the duration and, to a lesser extent, the outcome of the war on Iraq hit equities and the dollar, pushing gold, oil and the euro up.