Irish4Europe is highlighting Irish concerns in relation to Brexit - Open Border, Good Friday Agreement, Common Travel Area, Rights of Irish Citizens in Britain
Looking forward to joining @DerryGirlsAB on Thursday eve in @LDNIrishCentre to talk about the impact of Brexit on the border in NI. Now more than ever it’s essential to #makethemlisten. All welcome- RSVP here: https://t.co/ES22wKdf6Z
Good to have further Brexit talks with @simoncoveney today. The solemn commitment to no hard border in N.Ireland must be kept. Customs union & single market alignment only viable option. https://t.co/NSNO6atxrl
Varadkar: I will be say to PM May we all need to intensify our efforts now. All of us want a deal..but as we agreed in December and March there can be no WA without a backstop.
Varadkar says Ireland will not put in any border infrastructure even if there is no deal. "we’re not going to be preparing for a hard border
we’re not preparing for any sort of land border between N Ireland and Ireland"
Great @eurelationsappg meeting with Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister @SimonCoveney this afternoon - its vital we maintain a strong and close relationship whatever happens with #Brexit
Brexit and Beyond: The HR Impact for Irish Employees in the UK and UK Employees in Ireland. Join #Fragomen, @RonanDalyJermyn, @emireland, @VoltedgeHR@MorganMcKinley and @BrIreCham on Jan. 23 for this seminar: https://t.co/rqfdA2L3EH
Taoiseach: The breakthrough achieved before Christmas means that the UK has guaranteed that, whatever its future relationship with the European Union, a hard border on the island of Ireland will be avoided. The Common Travel Area and its associated rights will be maintained.
Taoiseach: "it is hard to imagine the Good Friday Agreement being made without our shared membership of the European Union and the single market. In Ireland we are now having to contemplate our future without the foundation that underpinned it."
Taoiseach to EP: "The majority of people in NI voted to remain in the EU; the majority of its representatives elected to the NI assembly want to remain in the Customs Union and the Single Market..." continues
"Brexit deal will secure the rights of 3 million EU citizens living in the UK... and there will be no hard border in Northern Ireland" says Prime Minister Theresa May
@RTERadio1@RTEOne Leo Varadkar says 'we want to build bridges and not borders' and that we want the provisions of the Good Friday Agreement to continue after Brexit
The Good Friday Agreement in all its parts is protected under deal and everyone born in NI will continue to have the right to Irish and EU citizenship, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar says
Repeated interventions in Commons Withdrawal Bill debate on N Ireland this afternoon, from Conservative MPs arguing regulatory alignment with EU on behalf of NI, as a reason for it across UK:
Grieve, Clarke, Morrison, Soubry