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DUP MP for North Antrim Ian Paisley. File photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire. Paisley expects EU to pressure Ireland to ‘move aside’ in Brexit talks

DUP MP would tell Varadkar: ‘Listen mate, you have had enough fun with the politics of this’

Win any (pub) argument with our Brexicon. These pro- and anti-Brexit protesters outside the British parliament have definitely read it. File photograph: Peter Nicholls/Reuters Brexit: An idiot's guide to the United Kingdom leaving the European Union
A sign in Derry calling for no border in Ireland . File photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images Brexit threatens to make Irish in North ‘second-class citizens’

Fianna Fáil Senator Mark Daly commissioned a poll in which 500 people in the Republic were told Northern Ireland requires no subsidy and then asked if they would like to see a united Ireland, to which 73 per cent said yes. Newton Emerson: Most Dublin politicians have no understanding of Northern Ireland
Éamon de Valera and members of his cabinet on December 29th, 1937. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images De Valera's empty formula could solve UK's Brexit impasse
Former Conservative MPs Heidi Allen, Anna Soubry and Sarah Wollaston arrive at a news conference in London. Photograph: Reuters/ Simon Dawson Defections shatter May’s hopes of keeping her party intact
The Irish beef market is particularly exposed to a no-deal Brexit, but the dairy industry could also face massive upheaval. Photograph: iStock Why is the Irish food sector so exposed to a no-deal Brexit?
British prime minister Theresa May leaving Downing Street. She will be meeting Jean-Claude Juncker in Brussels on Wednesday evening. Photograph: Getty Images Trouble ahead amid talk of imminent Brexit breakthrough
Declaring himself “devastated” at the “deeply disappointing” closure announcement, UK business secretary Greg Clark said Swindon’s fate highlighted the urgent need for agreement on Brexit. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA Honda’s Swindon plant closure confirmed but no mention of Brexit
Peter Flanagan: ‘As an immigrant here, the regular task of having to explain the geography of their own country to British people while simultaneously trying to sound like a grateful, 'good' immigrant is getting exhausting.’ ‘I’m exhausted explaining to British people the geography of their own country’
When we outsiders see Boris Johnson stuck on a zip wire with a Union Jack in each hand or Jacob Rees-Mogg bringing his nanny along to canvass voters on his behalf, we are initially indulgent: how delightfully, comically, English. Photograph: EPA Fintan O’Toole: The English love of eccentricity has turned sour
Jeremy Corbyn’s lack of intellectual curiosity, his intolerance of dissent and his doctrinaire faith in ideas he formed in the 1970s leave him ill-equipped to lead a major party, let alone a broad church like Labour. Photograph: Aaron Chown/PA Wire The Irish Times view on British Labour’s troubles: The Jeremy Corbyn effect

DUP MP for North Antrim Ian Paisley. File photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire. Paisley expects EU to pressure Ireland to ‘move aside’ in Brexit talks
Simon Coveney: “Brexit will have an impact on our economic growth.” No-deal Brexit threatens to push Ireland into budgetary deficit
The Tánaiste rejected FF claims of inaction and insisted that “this Government will not be found wanting” and would support farming. File photograph: Getty Images Brexit: Sharp reaction to UK threat favouring Brazilian beef over Irish
Conservative MP Justine Greening: “I don’t think I would be able to stay part of a party that was simply a Brexit party that had crashed us out of the European Union.” Photograph: Simon Dawson/Reuters One in three Tory MPs could quit party over Brexit, MP claims
British prime minister Theresa May and European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker. Photograph: Francisco Seco/AP May and Juncker discuss options to break backstop logjam
Aer Lingus was acquired by the Willie Walsh-led IAG in 2015. Photograph: Frank Grealish Aer Lingus given six months to fix Brexit EU ownership issue
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Food prices could rise by up to 45% in the event of a hard Brexit and WTO tariffs being applied, according to retail bodies in Ireland and Britain. Food prices could jump 45% in a hard Brexit, retailers warn
Eamonn O’Reilly, chief executive of Dublin Port. Mr O’Reilly says Dublin Port will be prepared for a hard-Brexit and customs posts will be functioning for the March 29th deadline. Photograph: Enda O’Dowd State takes over former Crosbie property at Dublin Port for post-Brexit checks
Joan Ryan (left) is joined by former Conservative Party and now Independent MPs Heidi Allen, Anna Soubry and Sarah Wollaston. Photograph: Reuters/Simon Dawson Three Conservative MPs quit party over ‘destructive’ Brexit strategy
Minister of State for European Affairs Helen McEntee. File photo. Reuters/Clodagh Kilcoyne Delaying Brexit for three months would need to end deadlock – McEntee
UK prime minister Theresa May and Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, in Brussels on Wednesday. Photograph: Jasper Juinen/ Bloomberg May and Juncker pledge to accelerate talks
British foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt attends a press conference after a meeting with Heiko Maas in Berlin. Photograph: EPA/ Adam Berry Hunt appeals for greater Brexit leadership from Berlin
The committee was told that the Departments of Education and Foreign of Affairs are working to ensure that in a no-deal context ‘we will be able to have mutual recognition of qualifications’. File photograph: Getty Images Brexit and education: Dáil group told of need for bilateral deal
The number of traders preparing for UK’s departure from the EU has significantly increased, according to Revenue. Rapid rise in Irish traders seeking UK access post-Brexit
Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas / AFP / Getty Images EU medicines agency must pay London lease despite Brexit move
Theresa May and Jean-Claude Juncker in Brussels, December 11th, 2018. Photograph: Yves Herman/Reuters/File Photo May to return to Brussels in bid to salvage Brexit deal
Tánaiste Simon Coveney and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar. Photograph: James Forde Government two weeks from pivotal Brexit decisions
Chairman of MJM Marine Brian McConville, vice-president of vessel refurbishment at Norwegian Cruise Line Colin Gant, and chief executive of MJM Gary Annett Newry firm MJM Marine wins cruise ship contract
Britain’s attorney general Geoffrey Cox leaving Downing Street after a cabinet meeting on Wednesday. He is expected to return to Brussels to meet EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images May returns to Brussels as UK prepares Brexit backstop plan
Meat Industry Ireland says tariffs on Irish beef imports into the UK would be around €750m on current trade levels, effectively pricing Irish beef out of the UK market. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons Farmers urge no-deal Brexit plan after UK confirms food tariffs
The seven British Labour Party MPs who quit the party on Monday. Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Corbyn warned of more resignations at stormy meeting
Irish hauliers could be heavily impacted by Brexit. Photograph: Maxwell’s Handout/PA Hauliers will seek State aid if Brexit damages business
Stephen Barclay: Britain’s Brexit secretary will resume his discussions with EU officials in Brussels. Photograph: Hannah McKay/Reuters Brexit talks resume but sides as far apart as ever
Photograph: iStock Irish subsidiaries of UK firms warned of increase in ‘dawn raids’ by watchdog
British Home Secretary Sajid Javid. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images UK minister warns EU counterparts of joint policing ‘disruption’
Simon Coveney and Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs Enzo Moavero Milanesi during a European Foreign Affairs Council meeting, in Brussels on Monday. Photograph: Olivier Hoslet/EPA Europe would welcome Corbyn’s Brexit plan, says Coveney
Luciana Berger said she was “embarrassed and ashamed” to remain in Labour. Photograph: Simon Dawson/Reuters British Labour Party splits after seven MPs resign
French president Emmanuel Macron intends to make a wide-ranging speech in which he will attempt to galvanise European allies. Photograph: Reuters Macron to warn on need to avert further exits from EU
Simon Coveney and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malta, Carmelo Abela (right) speak with a colleague during an European Foreign Affairs Council meeting, in Brussels. Photograph: Olivier Hoslet/ EPA Brexit impasse ‘is not Ireland’s fault and British must fix it’
Gerard O’Hare, general manager of Beagan’s, which lies 6km from the Border and has been in business for 60 years. Photograph: Ciara Wilkinson/The Irish Times ‘We’re going back in time’: Brexit and the customs broker
The passport division of the Irish embassy in London has warned that it is ‘under pressure’ due to the rising number of applications ahead of Brexit. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien/The Irish Times London embassy ‘stretched’ by passport demand ahead of Brexit
Revenue usually receives 12 applications for the ‘trusted trader’ status each year, but has received 81 in the past three months. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire Revenue sees pre-Brexit spike in applications to be trusted trader
Young people in Northern Ireland have less interaction with others of different race, religion and age: “This environment is ripe for fostering extreme beliefs, actions and violence.” Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne Segregation growing in North, report on reunification issues finds
Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan: ‘I believe that it is important a strong bond of working together between the PSNI in Northern Ireland, outside of the EU, and the Garda Síochána here continues.’ File photograph: Garrett White/Collins Flanagan urges UK to maintain extradition arrangements post-Brexit
British prime minister Theresa May and her husband Philip leave after attending a church service near her Maidenhead constituency, in England. Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA Wire British government to step up action on the backstop
Australia’s minister for trade Simon Birmingham, pictured in 2014. Photograph: Stefan Postles/Getty Images Australia to fast-track UK trade pact in event of no-deal Brexit
Danny McLaughlin: ‘I probably will get a bit annoyed as the weekend goes on. And on Monday morning when I can’t get to work’. Photograph: Danny McLaughlin/PA Flybmi collapse: ‘I’m in Brexitland, this is the first thing really that’s affected me’
Flybmi said all flights were cancelled from Saturday. File photograph: Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images Derry airport reviews Stansted route options after flybmi collapse
Britain’s justice secretary said he would back an extension to article 50 if a deal between the UK and EU was not reached. Photograph: Hannah McKay/Reuters Brexit: UK minister says no-deal would have ‘very adverse effect’
From left: DUP MEP Dianne Dodds, DUP leader Arlene Foster (C) and deputy DUP leader Nigel Dodds. Photograph: Paul Faith/AFP/Getty Images No Brexit deal ‘better than bad deal’, says DUP
Downing Street said Theresa May remained committed to securing changes to the text of the legally-binding withdrawal agreement. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images May to travel to Brussels again next week for talks with Juncker
Simon Coveney: said such a package must not be ‘unreasonable’ or ‘put an unfair burden on Ireland’. Photograph: Hannah McKay/Reuters Coveney says EU will agree ‘some package’ to help May sell deal
Brian Cowen: “We did get a certain amount of clarity in the withdrawal agreement, which was so wrongly rejected by parliament.” Photograph: Julien Behal/PA Wire Cowen criticises ‘unreasonable’ UK position on Brexit
EU sources have indicated that if the British government can get what they want through other means ‘they’ll accept that the Withdrawal Agreement will not be reopened’. Photograph: PA Brexit: UK could accept backstop assurances outside divorce deal, sources
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said the inability of the House of Commons to ratify the Brexit withdrawal agreement meant the UK is currently stuck. Photograph: Collins No-deal Brexit will hit UK’s ability to strike trade deals, says Varadkar
UK prime minister Theresa May leaving 10 Downing Street yesterday. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images Fresh Brexit defeat for May as Tory hardliners refuse to fall in
John McGrane (left), director general of the British and Irish Chamber of Commerce, Stewart Dunne (centre), chairman of Acca’s Business Leaders’ Forum, and Killian O’ Flynn, head of SME banking at Permanent TSB Forum hears principles to support Irish and UK economies as Brexit draws near
Tánaiste Simon Coveney said that, ‘deal or no deal’, the UK government had made a commitment and there was an obligation on the EU to ‘find a way of avoiding physical infrastructure on this island’. File photograph: Collins Coveney warns against Brexit ‘game of chicken’ talk
Netherlands foreign ministry shows foreign minister Stef Blok gesturing next to ‘the Brexit monster’ lying on his desk in his office, in The Hague. Photograph: Aad Meijer / Netherlands Foreign Ministry / AFR Brexit is a big blue furry monster, say the Dutch
S&P opened its Dublin office on Thursday where it employs 20 staff. Photograph: Naoise Culhane Ireland could see silver lining from no-deal Brexit, says S&P
Aviva won approval to move £1 billion (€1.1 billion) in general policies earlier this month. Photograph: Reuters Aviva moves €9bn in assets to Dublin amid ‘intensifying’ Brexit uncertainty
Dairymaster’s Mission Control platform in action Irish agritech could benefit from Brexit, State body claims
A goods lorry at the commercial harbour port in Larne, Co Antrim. Photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images No-deal Brexit could be ‘turn the lights out’ time for NI hauliers
Brexit will mean that Ireland will no longer be connected to the European electricity network Economics professor says State must consider ‘high-cost’ projects post-Brexit
A Ford Explorer (SUV). Photograph: Jeff Kowalsky/Bloomberg Car giant Ford warns no-deal Brexit ‘catastrophic’ for industry
Leo Varadkar: the State is holding firm to its values. Photograph: François Lenoir/Reuters Varadkar expects UK to leave EU with Brexit deal at end of March
Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa Mayspeaking during Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons in London on Wednesday Photograph: Jessica Taylor/UK Parliament/ AFP/Getty Hardline Brexiteers say they will not back May’s latest Brexit motion
UK firms have set up EU hubs in locations such as Dublin because Brexit means the loss of their passporting. Photograph: PA Wire UK financial regulator warns on Brexit banking moves
Former taoiseach Bertie Ahern giving evidence to the Exiting the European Union Committee in the House of Commons in London. Photograph: PA Bertie Ahern asked how Ireland feels about ‘re-joining the UK’
Bank of America’s Irish business now has up to €50 billion in assets. Photograph: Getty Bank of America Brexit preparations cost $400m as Dublin becomes new hub
One solution being considered under the Government’s no-deal Brexit contingency planning could see lorries being held at Dublin Airport or elsewhere away from the city Brexit: Parking lorries at Dublin Airport considered to avoid traffic jams
Britain’s prime minister Theresa May listening to a reply by opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn to her statement on Brexit in the House of Commons in London. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Brexit: May calls on MPs to ‘hold their nerve’ on deal
Former first minister of Ireland Lord David Trimble argues the backstop is in contravention of the Northern Ireland Act 1998, the Union of Ireland Act 1800 and the Belfast Agreement. Photograph: Matthew Lloyd/Getty David Trimble formally begins legal challenge to backstop
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn listens to British prime minister Theresa May’s statement on Brexit in the House of Commons on Tuesday. Photograph: Ho/AFP/Getty Images Theresa May asks MPs to hold their nerve on Brexit talks
Olly Robbins, Theresa May’s chief Brexit negotiator. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire UK seeking long talks extension if May’s deal not passed – report
The European Commission has extended safety certification on the Channel Tunnel for three months from the end of March. Photograph: Denis Charlet/AFP/Getty Images Channel Tunnel trains to run after no-deal Brexit under EC move
Leo Varadkar meeting his British counterpart Theresa May in Dublin on February 8th. Photograph: AFP With 45 days until Brexit, anxiety is increasing among Irish firms
The SDLP’s Daniel McCrossan (left), local man Eamon Holland (centre), and SDLP leader Colum Eastwood during election canvassing in Strabane in 2018 SDLP appoints new Brexit spokesman to replace Claire Hanna
Philip Lane, governor of the Central bank of Ireland, believes a Brexit deal will happen. Lane believes UK and EU will agree deal to avoid ‘chaotic Brexit’
Aer Lingus parent IAG said in a statement it would suspend the voting rights of any shares acquired by a relevant non-EU person and require the owner to sell the shares to a third party or to the airline group itself. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire IAG freezes non-EU share ownership to 47.5% amid Brexit confusion
Angela McGowan: “A one-year limit on workers earning less than £30,000 would encourage firms to hire a different person each year, needlessly increasing costs and discouraging migrants from integrating into communities” Employers warn immigration restrictions could make North poorer post-Brexit
The UK Brexit secretary Stephen Barclay and the chief European Union negotiator Michel Barnier met for dinner in Brussels on Monday night. File image: Andy Rain/EPA. Brexit talks ‘constructively’ resume in Brussels
British prime minister Theresa May greets Malta’s prime minister Joseph Muscat: former foreign secretary Boris Johnson has said he would accept a deal with a time-limited backstop. Photograph: Facundo Arrizabalaga May to ask MPs for more time to secure Brexit backstop changes
Work on the primary inspection posts where imported goods will be checked at Dublin Port after Brexit. Photograph: Enda O’Dowd Business groups want longer VAT deferral on UK imports after Brexit
UK shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer speaking to the media before holding a series of meetings in Congress House in Dublin. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire. Theresa May running down the clock on Brexit, Starmer says
A file image of Port of Ramsgate in the south east England. Seaborne was awarded a €15. 7m contract to run ferries from Ramsgate to Ostend in Belgium. The company has no ships. Photograph: AFP Wicklow shipping company ‘had no contract’ with UK no-deal Brexit firm
Dublin Port. A company importing goods from the UK post-Brexit subject to the full VAT rate would have had to pay €23,000 on goods worth €100,000 at the time they were imported. Photograph: Alan Betson Businesses will not take immediate VAT hit on UK imports post-Brexit
Britain’s Brexit secretary Stephen Barclay leaves 10 Downing Street in London. Mr Barclay is due to meet Michel Barnier on Monday. File photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images Brexit talks to resume amid possible detente between Tories and Labour
Aintree Racecourse, Liverpool: A tripartite agreement, which currently exists under EU law, allows for the free movement of and trade in horses between Ireland, Britain and France. Photograph: Getty Images Aintree Grand National could be first casualty of no-deal Brexit
Theresa May: ‘will commit to giving parliament another debate on Brexit by February 27th’. Photograph: REUTERS/Francois Lenoir Brexit: May ‘to promise another Commons debate’
Britain’s transport secretary, Chris Grayling, is facing calls for his resignation. Photograph: ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP/Getty Images Brexit: Calls for British transport secretary to resign over ferry deal
Transport secretary Chris Grayling’s decision to award Seaborne Freight a contract worth £13.8 million had attracted widespread criticism. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire UK transport department cancels ferry contract awarded to firm with no ships
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and UK prime minister Theresa May in Farmleigh House, Dublin Photograph: AFP/Maxwells/Getty Taoiseach and May discuss Brexit ‘overall state of play’ in Dublin
A source said Tory MPs are worried about a no-deal Brexit, but want to give Theresa May time to conduct negotiations. Photograph: Reuters/Francois Lenoir Key Brexit vote to be delayed as May needs more time to reach deal
DUP leader Arlene Foster (centre) with Diane Dodds MEP and Nigel Dodds MP after meeting Leo Varadkar at the Irish Government residence in Belfast. Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA Wire Varadkar holds ‘positive’ talks with Northern parties on powersharing
The airport is stockpiling goods from the EU needed to process passengers, including rubber gloves and cotton swabs. Photogrpah: Steve Parsons/PA Wire Heathrow airport stockpiling goods to prepare for no-deal Brexit
Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe and prime minister Theresa May. Japanese negotiators have been instructed to get the best deal possible for Japan No-deal Brexit risks rise as UK-Japan trade talks hit buffers
Glenn Carr, general manager of the Rosslare Europort Rosslare plans to take advantage of Brexit ‘world of opportunities’
Philippe Lamberts said the EU single market must be protected. Pictured in 2012, photograph: Sakis Mitrolidis/AFP/GettyImages MEP says EU is ‘standing behind’ Ireland as no-deal Brexit looms
European Parliament president Antonio Tajani (right) and its head Brexit negotiator Guy Verhofstadt give a press briefing following a meeting with Theresa May in Brussels. Photograph: François Walschaerts/AFP/Getty Images EU welcomes Corbyn’s offer of support for May
Many observers had assumed that it had come from the Taoiseach, but Jean-Claude Juncker said it was sent by an Irish citizen Irish woman explains why she wanted to kiss Jean-Claude Juncker
Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney at a meeting on Capitol Hill. Photograph: Suzanne Lynch Brexit withdrawal agreement ‘allows us all to move on’, says Coveney
Prime minister of Hungary Viktor Orban kisses German chancellor Angela Merkel on the hand after the Visegrad Group Summit press conference in Bratislava, Slovakia. Photograph: Jakub Kaminski/EPA Germany positive on Brexit breakthrough without changes to withdrawal deal
British prime minister Theresa May speaks to the press at the European Council headquarters in Brussels. Photograph: Francois Lenoir/Reuters Theresa May takes Donald Tusk to task for his Brexit ‘hell’ comment
The Irish in Britain organisation said ‘a lot of uncertainty and concern’ remained about what would happen to social welfare payments - particularly pensions - for Irish people living in the UK after Brexit. Photograph: iStock Social welfare payments guaranteed for Irish in Britain and British in Ireland after Brexit
Bank of England governor Mark Carney. Britain faces its weakest economic growth in 10 years in 2019, the Bank of England said Thursday. Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/PA Wire Brexit uncertainty sees Bank of England cut growth to 10-year low
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn signs a letter he has written to prime minister Theresa May laying out Labour’s five Brexit demands before she went to Brussels on Thursday. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire Corbyn offers May terms on backing softer version of Brexit deal
UBS has received approval from a London court to move up to €32 billion in assets to Germany. Photograph: Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters UBS gets approval to shift €32bn of assets from Britain
Figures from the Irish-American caucus on Capitol Hill said they would definitely speak out fi the Belfast Agreement was threatened. Brexit: UK told to uphold Belfast Agreement if it wants US trade
East Coast Bakehouse co-founders Alison Cowzer and Michael Carey. Photograph: Jason Clarke East Coast Bakehouse forecasts 300% growth in revenues for this year