From top: Taoiseach Enda Kenny addresses the all-island forum on Brexit; Michaél Martin

This morning.

Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin 8.

At the all-island forum on Brexit.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheal Martin criticised UK ministers for pushing a “crude and chaotic” Brexit agenda.

Urging Ireland to attempt to soften the UK’s exit from the EU, he said June’s “divisive and damaging” referendum result had profound short, medium and long-term implications for Ireland.

“Our agenda is the clear one of wanting to minimise the damage and division of Brexit and to maximise progress for all parts of this island,” he told the forum.

“Let’s explore radical ways of softening Brexit, but we also have to talk about the crude and chaotic Brexit which some in the London cabinet appear to be advocating.

“Unlike the Foreign Secretary (Boris Johnston), we don’t have the luxury of being pro-having the cake and eating it.”

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams said the forum should “not be about a hard Brexit or a soft Brexit. It needs to be about moving beyond the consequences of Brexit and looking at alternatives”.

Fight!

Brexit poses significant challenge for Ireland – Kenny (RTÉ)

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Update:

Gerry Adams (top) and Simon Coveney (above) at the all-island forum on Brexit.

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