The Stormont minister whose officials are responsible for the new Irish Sea border has said some food will be unavailable if changes are not made.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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."

Maros Sefcovic said they searched for four years for the ‘best solution to the very sensitive situation in Northern Ireland’.

The EU’s Brexit chief has today warned the UK to not “further sour our relationship” by taking unilateral actions in Northern Ireland as negotiations between the two sides continue.

Maroš Šefčovič says he is trying to iron out disruption to businesses caused by the protocol.

AN SDLP Assembly member has criticised the questioning of new DUP leader Edwin Poots on yesterday's Andrew Marr Show.

DUP leader under fire for rejecting EU offer that would remove 80% of protocol checks.

The EU’s ambassador to the UK has accused new DUP leader Edwin Poots of making comments about the post-Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol that lack “adherence to reality”.

The Agriculture Minister said he can ‘absolutely and totally stand over the decision to temporarily remove staff’ following reports of threats.

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?

Brussels ready to slap tariffs and quotas on UK exports – and even to ‘suspend cooperation in certain sectors’

Even the keenest Brexiteer must feel that the process has been tortuously long. / That has been, in large part, because successive British governments have refused to accept the trade-off between untrammelled sovereignty and friction-free access to the EU’s single market, a refusal that shapes today’s increasingly testy relationship.

Dogmatic obsession means that Johnson won’t lift a finger to help Northern Ireland.

An expected snap election in Northern Ireland would become a mini-poll on post-Brexit trade arrangements.

RURAL affairs ministers from Scotland and Northern Ireland have written to the UK Government raising concerns about the impact of the Australia trade deal on domestic farmers and producers.

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