Hardline Brexiteers have been accused of “jeopardising” peace in Northern Ireland after they made dramatic claims the Good Friday Agreement was “not sustainable”. / Former Northern Ireland Secretary Lord Hain called Hoey’s intervention a “reckless slur”.

The prime minister’s rightwing pact with the DUP and the increasing likelihood of a no-deal Brexit have left the people in the north of Ireland staring into an abyss.

They have worked out that the Good Friday Agreement scuppers their plans for a hard Brexit.

n this episode of #3Blokes In A Pub, Graham and Jason travel to Belfast and are joined by Robert Stephenson on a fact-finding mission to find out what utter chaos Brexit is going to inflict on Northern Ireland and the consequences of a #NoDeal Brexit on both the border with the Republic of Ireland and the Good Friday Agreement.

This week RTÉ's Europe Editor Tony Connelly and Deputy Foreign Editor Colm Ó Mongáin look at: (Another) critical phase in the Brexit negotiations; Mrs Foster meets Mr Barnier; Concerns over the impact of Brexit on the rights enshrined in the Good Friday Agreement.

Brexit was to allow the United Kingdom to reclaim its former glory. Instead, the country's leaders have bumbled their way into catastrophe. Built on a false premise from the start, the UK's move away from the EU has been dominated by mistakes and miscalculations.

Ireland will not engage in bilateral talks on Brexit and will only negotiate as part of the 27 remaining members of the European Union, European Affairs Minister Helen McEntee has said.

Leo Varadkar says UK 'won't have any trade deals with anyone', citing WTO rules and Good Friday commitments.

The Good Friday agreement allows people to identify as Irish, British or both. We’re being forced, once again, to choose sides.

The full text of the Good Friday Agreement [aka Belfast Agreement, Northern Ireland Peace Agreement]

'It's not like a novel where you sit down and you say: do you know what... this is a cracking read,' he told a committee meeting.

Leaving without deciding what kind of relationship we want with the EU will simply prolong the agony.

Cross-party move likely to be put forward as amendment to EU withdrawal bill.

‘It would be economically very, very dangerous for Britain, and for the peace process in Ireland it would potentially be devastating’

As Brexit looms, nationalists in Northern Ireland are increasingly looking to Dublin for representation. Now, as Ben Kelly explains, political parties are responding in new, innovative ways.

England’s casual indifference to the border question has betrayed the post-Troubles generation.

Near one of the scores of small crossings on the border, a yellow digger stands as a monument to the lengths communities went to to keep roads open during the Troubles.

Last Thursday, lawyers for former Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble (now Tory peer Lord Trimble), initiated a legal case against the UK government contending that the Withdrawal Agreement with the backstop is in breach of the Good Friday Agreement, the Act of Union and the Vienna Convention. Author and legal commentator Joshua Rozenberg gave Brexit Republic his view of the case.

A WARNING by the powerful Irish-American business lobby that a US-UK trade deal would be blocked in the event of a hard Brexit has been welcomed by nationalists.

Companies including Coca Cola, Norbrook Laboratories write open letter to British MPs.

'It does not reopen the withdrawal agreement or undermine the backstop or its application' says Leo Varadkar