There is a brilliant scene in the first episode of the latest series of smash HBO TV series Succession. In it, Connor, perhaps the most stupid of the adult children of the media billionaire Logan Roy, is running for US president.
On a sunny Thursday in spring I meet Brown Thomas Arnotts managing director Donald McDonald inspecting a small purple handbag on display in the centre of Brown Thomas’ flagship department store on Grafton Street in Dublin.
Shares in the country’s biggest landlord, Ires Reit, have fallen to an all-time low despite record high rents and demand for housing.