Two years since Britain left the EU, Brexit is still very much at the top of the news agenda with lorry queues lengthening at Dover as exporting firms struggle with red tape.

Dublin's foreign affairs minister Simon Coveney has said the decision to halt Northern Ireland Protocol checks would be a “breach of international law”.

One of the many consequences of Brexit is the creation of a customs border in the Irish Sea, a move that for some in Northern Ireland has awakened old unionist fears of separation from the mainland. There's also been a lot of talk about the Northern Ireland Protocol stirring up dormant tensions between unionists and republicans. But what if those fears are ill-founded?

The system for checks on agri-foods at Northern Ireland's sea ports is "not fit for purpose", according to an audit carried out by the European Commission.

DUP leader also claims Boris Johnson privately told him there was a ‘20-30 per cent of an agreement’ with the EU over the Northern Ireland Protocol.

The UK Brexit minister has been urged to take responsibility for making the deal he negotiated work, after he suggested the UK could take drastic action.

Rural affairs ministers from Scotland and Northern Ireland write to the UK Government expressing their concerns.

A zero tariff, zero quota trade deal between the UK and Australia would damage Northern Ireland’s beef and sheep trade, the new DUP leader has warned.

DUP minister ordered a stop to checks between Britain and Northern Ireland which never came into force.

Irish Sea border checks are a legal requirement and it is right they are continuing, Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis has told MPs.

Edwin Poots' instruction to halt checks on goods entering Northern Ireland from GB was unlawful and taken for political reasons, the High Court has ruled.

Sinn Féin say they will veto a Stormont Executive move to make border checks unlawful as part of the NI Protocol.

Stormont's agriculture minister has hit back at a claim by the NI secretary that trade disruption across the Irish Sea is due to Covid-19 and not Brexit.

Northern Ireland’s vet shortage appears to be coming to a head as Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots warns as many as 200 vets and 400 other staff could be needed to oversee checks at ports unless action is taken to ease red tape.

A Northern Ireland minister has threatened legal action against the UK and the EU over post-Brexit trading arrangements.

Northern Ireland’s First Minister Arlene Foster laid out her plan to quit, sparking further upheaval at a time when London and Dublin are seeking to calm tensions in the region.

Agriculture minister Edwin Poots has called on his officials to halt the checks, which are required under the Northern Ireland Protocol.

Trade secretary says government ‘absolutely’ wants to remove border checks agreed by Boris Johnson in Brexit deal.

The Northern Irish Minister of Agriculture ordered his services to stop post-Brexit controls on foodstuffs at midnight, an order whose practical consequences and legality are being questioned in the midst of negotiations between London and Brussels.

The NI agriculture minister has asked his counterparts in London and Dublin to take a joint approach to post-Brexit problems in the horticulture sector.

Coveney joins NI politicians in condemning move by North’s Minister of Agriculture.

A new raft of checks on goods at the ports of Belfast and Larne under the terms of the protocol have sparked anger among unionists and loyalists.

“If we see problems today we should not forget that they do not come from the protocol but they result from Brexit. That is the reason why the problems are there."

The status of Brexit checks at Northern Ireland ports remained unclear on Thursday morning after a deadline passed for a ministerial order to halt them.

The UK's trade deal with New Zealand has been heavily criticised by Stormont's agriculture minister.