Financial markets have moved in strange ways since Brexit but the most pronounced shift has been an advance in US equity valuations and a sharp decline in the exchange rate between sterling and the dollar.

IF Jim Tobin of Meelin in North Cork was still alive today he would be having the best business week of his life. You see Jim in his day was the best lemonade maker in the locality and also made and sold boot polish!

THE five-day Fáilte Ireland Dublin Horse Show which opened at Ballsbridge yesterday is still one of the country’s most colourful social and sporting events.