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Tánaiste & Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Simon Coveney  and Minister of State for European Affairs, Helen McEntee updating the media this morning on legislation which will ‘protect ‘Ireland in the case of a no deal Brexit.

This morning.

Government Buildings.

“A disorderly Brexit will be a lose, lose, lose for the UK, for Europe and for Ireland. We cannot offset all the damage it will do, but we are doing everything we can.”

Tanaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney

Save yourselves.

*grabs iodine tablets*

Tánaiste: No-deal Brexit a ‘lose, lose, lose’ scenario (RTÉ)

Update:

President of Sinn Féin Mary Lou McDonald

FIGHT!

Rollingnews

Minister for Rural and Community Development Michael Ring (left)has warned the Senior Alert Scheme could be at risk from a hard Brexit

Speaking to the Irish Examiner, Mr [Michael] Ring said the Senior Alert Scheme, which provides security and comfort to elderly people living alone in isolated areas across the country, is one of the areas [of concern around a hard Brexit]  that have been identified by his department.

He said that some of the pendants worn by elderly people, which are used to raise an alarm if they get into difficulty, are sourced in the UK and so the supply of these could be impacted.

“There are one or two issues that we would have concern about; one is in relation to the Senior Alert Scheme, a lot of that equipment comes from Britain,” said Mr Ring.

Utterly ridiculous.

*phones Gran*

Brexit threat to Senior Alert Scheme, says minister (irish Examiner)

Rollingnews/ Senior Alert Scheme

This morning.

Dublin Castle, Dublin 2

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar (pic 1) and  Leader of Fianna Fail Micheal Martin (pic 2) address the All-Island Civic Dialogue on Brexit watched by Sinn Féin Leader Mary Lou McDonald  with Deputy Leader Michelle O’Neill MLA. It follows another Parliamentary defeat for UK Prime Minister Teresa May last night.

Mr Varadkar said:

“One of the most striking things about what’s unfolded since the UK’s decision to leave has been the remarkable solidarity from the EU side, despite many attempts to bilateralise issues.

The solidarity has been strong and resolute and those who think it will break at the last moment are in for a nasty surprise”.

Hmm.

Taoiseach says Brexit extension possible but not inevitable (RTÉ)

Sam Boal /RollingNews

This morning.

House of Commons

Belfast and Finchley “cannot be seen” as identical places constitutionally, the Exiting the European Union Committee heard today from Mr Ahern, a co-architect of the Good Friday Agreement.

“The argument that [parts of] Northern Ireland are precisely the same as Finchley is incorrect, it’s constitutionally incorrect as per the Good Friday Agreement and I think people need to understand that,” he said.

Former Taoiseach says Belfast and Finchley ‘not the same’ (Irish World)

Meanwhile…

Tonight.

Farmleigh, Phoenix Park, Dublin.

Pic: Maxwells

Earlier…

Cartoon in today’s The Times Ireland edition by Harry Burton

Tonight in Dublin Mr Varadkar will meet Mrs May, whose government relies on the support of the DUP.

Ahead of her meeting with the Taoiseach over dinner, Britain’s Attorney General Geoffrey Cox will hold talks in Dublin with his Irish counterpart, Séamus Woulfe.

Mr Cox has been leading work within Whitehall on providing either a time limit on the backstop or giving the UK an exit mechanism from it.

Both proposals have received a dusty response from Dublin, which insists the backstop cannot be time limited if it is to provide an effective “insurance policy” against the return of a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic.

Brexit on agenda as Varadkar meets NI parties and Theresa May (RTÉ)

Meanwhile…

Steady on, McDreamy.

Update:

‘Will Mrs May sink or swim? Only time will tell. From the choppy waters off south Dublin, it’s back to you in the studio….’

This afternoon.

Sandycove, County Dublin.

Earlier: May Féin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzrksmKp_7o

This morning.

Brussels, Belgium.

UK Prime Minister meets European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker a day after European Council President Donald Tusk said there is a “special place in Hell” for Brexiteers “without a plan”.

In their joint statement following talks in Brussels, Mrs May and Mr Juncker said: “The prime minister described the context in the UK Parliament, and the motivation behind last week’s vote in the House of Commons seeking a legally-binding change to the terms of the backstop.

“She raised various options for dealing with these concerns in the context of the Withdrawal Agreement in line with her commitments to the Parliament.”
Media captionDonald Tusk: “Special place in hell” for those without Brexit plan

Mr Juncker “underlined that the EU27 will not reopen the Withdrawal Agreement” but “expressed his openness” to amending the future relationship to be “more ambitious in terms of content and speed”.

Mrs May is now meeting European Parliament President Antonio Tajani and the Parliament’s Brexit coordinator Guy Verhofstadt.

Brexit: May and Juncker talks ‘robust but constructive’ (BBC)

Yesterday: A Special Place In Hell

Pics: Getty

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