Shares in airlines, including Ryanair and Aer-Lingus-owner IAG, as well as travel giant TUI soared, as the threat of any disruption from Brexit was put off beyond the industry’s most profitable summer season.

A lawyer for an accountancy firm which sought to jail former politician Ivor Callely over an unpaid debt has rejected a statement that the case had been already settled by the time a court issued an arrest warrant.

GAA president-elect Sean Kelly is to recommend that inter-county footballers and hurlers be allowed to elect their own national representatives to Croke Park at the weekend’s congress in Belfast.

Justice Minister John O’Donoghue has repeated that he did nothing wrong in relation to the Patrick Naughton rape case in Co Galway.