Ireland and Brexit: Kenny says Government ready for worst-case scenarios
Taoiseach’s priorities are protection of the peace process and Irish-British trade
The Taoiseach with Theresa May at 10 Downing Street. The prime minister, Kenny said, “was categoric about the retention of the Common Travel Area and no return to a hard Border”. Photograph: Reuters/Stefan Rousseau/Pool
Unlike the Scottish referendum, where he was studiously careful in his public utterances, Enda Kenny was always clear that a Brexit referendum vote was a cataclysm to be avoided, at all costs.
Now, however, the Taoiseach must work to ensure that the relationship between Ireland and the UK will change as little as possible in the wake of the decision by 52 per cent of British voters.