The Taoiseach has warned “very serious harm” can come if people keep trying to use Brexit as an issue to create dispute.

Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney has told an influential group of US Congress members about the growing tension between the EU and the UK over issues around Brexit.

Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald said Brexiteers had to accept that new trading borders between Great Britain and the island of Ireland were a permanent consequence of the UK's exit from the EU.

A major parcel courier has paused some delivery services into Ireland as well as the rest of Europe - because of pressure caused by new post-Brexit red tape.

There is a slow but steady build-up of freight movements between Britain and Ireland, a Dublin Port official has said. Hauliers had warned of "mayhem" at ports post-Brexit which has not yet materialised.

THE CEO of the Irish South & West Fish Producers Organisation has reacted angrily to the lack of protection afforded to Irish fishermen following the recent Trade and Co-operation Agreement between the UK and the EU.

MEP Billy Kelleher has called for clarification on the issue of the recognition of educational and professional qualifications for those living in Northern Ireland post-Brexit.

BORD Bia, the Irish food promotion board responsible for supporting a record €13 billion in food, drink and horticulture global exports in 2019, has welcomed the free trade agreement reached between the EU and UK to commence when the Brexit ...

A post-Brexit trade deal has been agreed by negotiators from the UK and the European Union after months of talks and frantic last-minute wrangling. The deal was secured on Christmas Eve, a week before current trading arrangements expire.

NEGOTIATIONS on a UK-European Union trade deal are continuing amid widespread expectation an agreement is imminent.

Talks on a post-Brexit trade deal look set to continue into next week after another weekend of tense negotiations failed to achieve a breakthrough.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin said it will be difficult for the EU and UK negotiating teams to "square the circle" to reach a post-Brexit trade deal.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said that a post-Brexit trade agreement is "within reach". Mr Martin said, however, that there are no "winners or losers" in the coming days of the negotiations.

Taoiseach Micheal Martin has said it would be a "significant failure" if no Brexit deal was agreed.

TAOISEACH Micheál Martin has said he is not "overly optimistic" about a breakthrough in the Brexit talks, saying he is "50-50" on a deal being reached. He described the talks as on a "knife-edge".

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US President-elect Joe Biden has stressed the importance of keeping the Irish border open following Brexit. Speaking to reporters in Wilmington, Delaware, on Tuesday, he said: "We do not want a guarded border.

TAOISEACH Micheál Martin has said he is hopeful that the outline of a Brexit deal can be reached by the end of the week.

FOREIGN Affairs Minister Simon Coveney has warned that talks on a Brexit trade deal will collapse if no progress is made on fishing. Mr Coveney warned that negotiations on the issue are not in a good place and have not moved since the summer.

Foreign Minister Simon Coveney has warned there will be no EU-UK trade agreement if Boris Johnson pushes ahead with legislation that would allow Britain to break international law.

TIME has effectively run out for businesses who have not prepared for the worst impact of a no-deal Brexit.

SIMON Coveney has said that US president-elect Joe Biden will make a difference to the Brexit negotiations, adding that he is a “real friend of Ireland”.

The Foreign Affairs Minister has said a post-Brexit trade deal is "likely" but it will not be easy.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has been forced to leave the EU summit shortly after it opened because one of her close staffers tested positive for Covid-19.

European Council president Charles Michel is set to visit Dublin on Thursday to discuss the Brexit negotiations. He will meet Taoiseach Micheál Martin ahead of next week's summit of EU leaders in Brussels.

The Government has dismissed reports the EU could block goods entering Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK.