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Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said that the Cabinet’s Brexit sub-committee met on Monday to “essentially dust down and restart contingency preparations” in case a trade war develops with the UK.
Ireland's deputy PM has warned governments doing trade deals with the UK that it is a nation that "doesn't necessarily keep its word".
'The message must go out to all countries... that this is a British government that doesn't necessarily keep its word,' Tánaiste Leo Varadkar
13/10/2021
'The message must go out to all countries... that this is a British government that doesn't necessarily keep its word,' Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said in the wake of 'alarming' comments by Boris Johnson's former aide Dominic Cummings.
Ex-adviser to PM says flawed Brexit deal was way to ‘whack Corbyn’ and ‘of course’ government can break it.
The government is strongly considering delaying checks on imports from the European Union again amid warnings of severe disruption to supplies in the run-up to Christmas.
Two-thirds of people say a border poll should be held at some point in the wake of Brexit.
Leo Varadkar said Fine Gael is the party to "unify our island" in his lifetime.
Molotov cocktails and barricades have returned to Northern Ireland. The conflict there is 4 centuries old. But Brexit is the new reason why the situation has reached the boiling point in what had been an era of peace.
Britain's decision to make unilateral changes to Northern Irish Brexit arrangements is "not the appropriate behaviour of a respectable country" and will erode trust with the European Union, senior Irish ministers said on Thursday.
Increased traffic after Christmas break will test border control systems, says Varadkar.
Boris Johnson fails to secure Brexit concessions after three hours of face-to-face talks in Brussels
09/12/2020
Talks in jeopardy as no breakthrough emerges in meeting with Ursula von der Leyen.
Academics hold up Brexit as an example of the dangers of voting on an abstract concept.
The increasingly shrill nature of the rhetoric around Brexit is a worrying development that has the potential to do as much damage to Irish-British relations in the longer term as the practical consequences of the process itself.
Brexit: No light ahead of the tunnel
13/06/2020
On 7 October last year, there was a defining phone call between Boris Johnson and Angel Merkel.
Irish PM says preparations for checks at ports and airports are being ramped up.
The statements came today after reports suggested that Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered his Brexit team to find ways to "get around" the Northern Ireland protocol.
Leo Varadkar has urged the British government to tone down “nationalist rhetoric” over Brexit, and branded Dominic Raab’s memo to UK diplomats to sit separately from their EU counterparts as “petty”.
United bloc will continue to protect its interests, say Michel Barnier and Leo Varadkar
Boris Johnson announces plans to take personal charge of his own "task-force Europe" as Leo Varadkar talks up Brussels' team.
Taoiseach says Corbyn’s renegotiation plan would not be a problem.
Irish PM and head of European parliament give their support to three-month extension.
EU gives go-ahead to weekend meetings after PM appears to backtrack on customs stance.
Taoiseach’s talks with Johnson in Liverpool defined as focusing on Brexit deal ‘process’.