A funny thing happened on the way to the forum (The Currency of course!). Two people, in the same week, towards the end of a bleak November, used a metaphor I had never heard before.Firstly, in the august surroundings of the Abbey Theatre, Sean Scully, world-renowned and officially Ireland’s tenth favourite artist, in the course of a fascinating dissertation on his life and work, said: “Art flies over everything.” Three days later in a minimalist office in Anne’s Lane South in Dublin, Shelly Corkery, fashion director of Brown Thomas, explaining the complexities of high-end retail said: “Fashion flies over everything.”Scully’s…

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