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Among the recommendations made by the Timber Industry Brexit Forum are interchangeable customs officials, mutual trust and training of border officials, and mutual recognition of customs officials and police. Photograph: iStock Timber industry recommends Border checks to prepare for hard Brexit

Report advises copying measures in use on US-Canadian and Norway-Swedish borders

European Commissioner Phil Hogan: ‘We must be on our guard.’ File photograph: Eric Vidal/Reuters UK needs to ‘climb down from Brexit barricades’, Hogan says
Border country: one of the 208 crossings between the Republic and Northern Ireland. Photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty Ireland has 208 border crossings, officials from North and South agree
Brexit warning to Theresa May: “The UK has to face up to the fact that decision time is here.” Photograph: AFP/Getty UK trapped by self-imposed contradiction on Brexit, says Hogan
Brexit secretary David Davis is adamant time is still on his side as he sought a way through what has become the biggest crisis of the Brexit negotiations so far. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images ‘Failure’ if UK forced to extend role in customs union, says Davis
Theresa May rightly rejected the EU’s proposal to separate Northern Ireland in customs terms from Great Britain declaring that “no UK prime minister could ever agree to it”. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA North must not be bullied by Europe on Brexit
North-East Somerset MP Jacob Rees-Mogg: “There is a problem with the House of Lords, which is it is very condescending towards the democratic vote. It seems to think that they know better than 17.4 million people.” Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Brussels must be warned of cost of no-deal Brexit, says Rees-Mogg
European Parliament Brexit co-ordinator Guy Verhofstadt: “It remains a priority . . . to ensure that citizens, whether UK citizens in the EU or EU citizens in the UK, can continue to lead their lives as they do now.” Photograph: Patrick Seeger Windrush scandal raising EU fears, Home Office hears
Brexit secretary David Davis arrives in Downing Street in London, England. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images British government apologises over surprise Border visit
People gather for a Windrush generation solidarity protest in Brixton: the pattern of Theresa May’s behaviour is that of someone eager to appease a body of opinion she half-understands. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA May’s migrant stance result of over-compensation not ideology
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British prime minister Theresa May’s approach does not command a majority in parliament. Photograph: Victoria Jones/Pool Eurosceptics fear ‘customs partnership’ may become customs union
As a relatively wealthy state Ireland is likely to end up as a net contributor to any euro zone budget, so opposition to establishing such a budget is understandable Decision time coming for Ireland on further European integration
British secretary of state for exiting the European Union David Davis: made a brief visit to the Border in Co Armagh on Monday, his first visit since taking up his post. Photograph: Andy Rain/Reuters House of Lords gives May third Brexit defeat in one week
Britain’s Brexit secretary David Davis tweeted this picture from his visit to Northern Ireland today. Photograph: Twitter David Davis finally visits Border, but doesn’t tell the press
Former European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso: “The creativity of lawyers is boundless.” Photograph: Getty Images ‘Carving out’ North from UK post-Brexit an ‘absolute deal breaker’
Former taoisaigh John Bruton, Bertie Ahern and Brian Cowen at the Brexit conference in the Round Room next to Dublin’s Mansion House on Monday. Photograph: Cyril Byrne Master of compromise Bertie Ahern warns against ‘evil hour’ Brexit border deal
Phil Hogan: “As the figures stand at the moment, and in the absence of more money, there is no chance we’re going to get an increase...What we’re looking for at the moment is that we hold what we have” Hogan warns of cuts to CAP farm budget due to €12bn Brexit shortfall
Donie Cronin from Co Donegal was treated at Altnagelvin hospital in Derry. Photograph: Trevor McBride Brexit ‘must not scupper’ lifesaving cross-Border treatment
Party leader Micheál Martin speaking during the annual Fianna Fáil 1916 Easter Rising commemoration at Arbour Hill cemetery in Dublin. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire Irish interests may suffer in prolonged Brexit talks, says Martin
Britain’s environment secretary Michael Gove “fully supports the prime minister’s position” on leaving the customs union. Photograph: Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images Theresa May could face cabinet revolt over customs union
The Brexit clock is ticking and negotiation deadlines are looming. Delay and obfuscation are the clear objectives of the British negotiators The UK government has made Brexit promises it cannot keep
Theresa Grant, the Wexford woman who runs Trafford Council, the wealthiest area in Greater Manchester Two years on, Manchester fights back against Brexit
The UK has said the Border issue can be solved only in the context of future trade talks. Photograph/Paul Faith/AFP/Getty Images Britain sticks with magical thinking on Brexit Border issue
Theresa May, British prime minister, speaks at Downing Street in London, Britain. Photograph: Neil Hall/Pool via Bloomberg Border question threatens to derail Britain’s Brexit strategy
A newspaper report has claimed British prime minister Theresa May has been told her plans for avoiding a hard border in Northern Ireland will not work. Photograph: AFP Brexit: Britain remains committed to no hard border in North
Former taoiseach Brian Cowen has described Britain’s Brexit secretary David Davis as a hardline right-winger who has never shown any interest in Ireland. Photograph: Eric Luke Brian Cowen says David Davis a hardliner with no interest in Ireland
Britain’s prime minister Theresa May has ruled out remaining in a customs union after Brexit, instead proposing two alternative models. Both of which were shot down by the EU, according to the report. Photograph: PA EU rejects Theresa May’s Irish Border proposals, says report
Will the EU Survive Brexit?: former European Commission secretary general Catherine Day gave the Barrett Family Lecture at Newman University Church. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw EU ‘might integrate more smoothly’ once ‘permanently reluctant’ UK leaves
The authors say a hard Brexit would result in the inspection of all produce, food and documents at border crossings. Photograph: Getty Using technology for Border checks on food ‘vague and unrealistic’
European Council President Donald Tusk before his speech at the European Parliament on Wednesday. Photograph: Patrick Seeger/EPA Tusk again warns no Brexit deal for UK without Border solution
Factory owners and fishermen are worried about recruiting workers after Brexit Photograph: Annie Sakkab/Bloomberg North’s fishing industry raises Brexit concerns
The Brexit referendum: one of the most important moments in contemporary British and Irish history. File photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/PA Wire Fintan O’Toole: Was the DUP involved in Brexit campaign fraud?
Fishing for eels in Lough Neagh. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Inquiry to hear of Brexit implications for North’s fishing industry
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar suggests joint cabinet meetings could bolster the relationship between both countries post-Brexit. Photograph: Gareth Chaney Collins Varadkar proposes joint cabinet meetings with UK after Brexit
People’s Vote: the MPs Caroline Lucas, Layla Moran, Chuka Umunna and Anna Soubry want a referendum on the final Brexit deal. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty MPs ‘could delay Brexit’ with final deal renegotiation demand
Minister for Finance Paschal Donohue has sent out hints that not all the money available will be spent on budget day. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins Budgetary prudence key to preparation for Brexit hit to economy
Sketching out Northern Ireland’s future: how long the Conservative-DUP marriage survives cannot be known, but Lord Palmerston’s maxim may still apply – Great Britain has no permanent friends, only permanent interests Brexit or UKExit? Twelve predictions about Northern Ireland’s future
The assembly line at the Jaguar Land Rover facility in Solihull, England. Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters Jaguar Land Rover to cut 1,000 jobs, says source
Britvic Ireland managing director Kevin Donnelly pictured in Ballyfermot. Photograph: Cyril Byrne Kevin Donnelly, Britvic MD: ‘Our model is well positioned for a hard Brexit’
In its Spring Brexit update, PwC has said that a hard UK exit is still the most likely outcome. Photograph: iStock Hard Brexit is the most likely outcome - PwC warns
David Davis, Britain’s secretary of state for exiting the European Union: mentioned Leo Varadkar’s “tough” negotiating style on Brexit. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA Upbeat mood in Westminster as Brexit talks move on to economics
Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney with the German minister for foreign affairs Heiko Mass at Iveagh House, Dublin.Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill AfD leader says an EU exit country needs to fall automatically into free trade union
Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney with German federal minister for foreign affairs Heiko Maas following talks at Iveagh House, Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times Germany supports Irish insistence on Border backstop, says minister
Danske expects that the administration and support sector will be the fastest growing sector in Northern Ireland this year, expanding by 3.5 per cent. North’s economy to grow at slower pace to rest of UK
German foreign minister Heiko Maas (above left) will travel to Dublin on Thursday to meet Tánaiste Simon Coveney, while German finance minister Olaf Scholz (above centre) and his Irish counterpart Paschal Donohoe will meet in Berlin. Photograph: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters Government looks to push closer German ties ahead of Brexit
Brexit: the UK’s departure has led to a renewed spirit of togetherness among the remaining EU members. Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Brexit is no excuse to start misunderstanding the EU
Brexit planning: only about a third as many gardaí are posted in the Border region now as were stationed there during the Troubles. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty More resources needed along Border after Brexit, senior gardaí say
The exclusion means the EU economy officially shrinks by 13%. Photograph: PA Wire Brexit: Eurostat starts excluding UK from EU statistics
Housing was a familiar bright spot in the figures. Photograph: iStock UK construction feels chill wind in February
DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds and leader Arlene Foster: unionism and unionists need to rethink their identity and role in what is going to be a very different era. Photograph: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker Brexit affords unionists moment to rethink approach
Former UUP Leader David Trimble reflects on the Good Friday agreement at his home in Lisburn Northern Ireland. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire Trimble says Irish Brexit challenges could be solved ‘in half an hour’
Shadow trade secretary Barry Gardiner described the agreement as a shibboleth. Photograph: Bloomberg via Getty Images Gardiner apologises for remarks on Belfast Agreement
British Brexit Secretary David Davis has claimed Sinn Féin’s growing influence in the Republic has pushed the Irish Government into taking a harder-than-expected stand in the Brexit negotiations. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Davis claims SF pushed Government’s hard stance on Brexit
EU commissioner Phil Hogan on UK: “You might say it doesn’t want to change its EU outfit, just its shoes.” Photograph: Alan Betson s UK lack of realism on Brexit becoming clear, says Hogan
Senator George Mitchell has issued a fresh warning about the potential impact of Brexit on the peace process. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Ireland and UK need to realise ‘what’s at stake’ in Brexit talks– George Mitchell
Former Northern Ireland first minister David Trimble is an advocate of Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union. Government rejects Trimble’s warnings over its Brexit stance
Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney, who is managing the Government’s Brexit team. Photograph: Alan Betson Department collects 280 planning documents for worst-case Brexit
Former Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble has warned that the Government in Dublin risks provoking loyalist paramilitaries with its stance on the Border after Brexit. File photograph: Eric Luke. Dublin’s Border stance could provoke loyalist paramilitaries, Trimble warns
A poster on the Dublin road, Co Armagh. File photograph: Paul Faith/AFP/Getty Images Britain urged to come up with a fresh Brexit Border plan
Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago, visited the Circle of Life Garden in Salthill on Tuesday after he was conferred with an honorary degree at NUI Galway. Photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy City states will replace nation states as political force – US mayor
British prime minister Theresa May: If she owes her longevity to the roguish police line-up of bad alternatives, she can also claim to have come into her own of late. Photograph: Leon Neal/PA Wire Theresa May displays grit of the old-fashioned English footballer
Migrants from Ethiopia in Calais. ‘Ireland could become a sort of Calais-style camp’. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA Brexit will put major pressure on immigration controls - gardaí
Disused customs post at the Border in Armagh. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire Government gives cautious response to UK customs proposal
George Fleming: feels nothing has changed since the referendum in June 2016 and he is strongly critical of the North’s politicians. ‘We don’t have a voice’: NI business people feel left out of Brexit talks
Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin: critical of the Government failure to push the need for State aid for companies left high and dry by Brexit. File photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons/The Irish Times Micheál Martin: Government has made strategic error on Brexit
A butcher’s shop in Boston, Lincolnshire, where 75 per cent of voters backed the UK decision to leave the European Union in the 2016 referendum. Photograph: Jack Taylor/Getty In Boston, Lincolnshire, Brexit still means Brexit
Anti-Brexit demonstrators wave European Union flags from the top deck of a bus parked outside the Houses of Parliament in London on Thursday. Photograph: Daniel Leal-OLivas/AFP/Getty Images Predicting a post-Brexit future is as hard as ever
The then British prime minister Tony Blair (L) and taoiseach Bertie Ahern sign the peace agreement April 10th, 1998. Photograph: Dan Chung/Reuters Brexit and what it means for the Belfast Agreement
Rory Montgomery: regarded as the “intellectual powerhouse on all things European”. Ireland’s Team Brexit: intellectuals, drafters, workhorses and networkers
Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney being interviewed by Simon Carswell on Brexit. Photograph: Alan Betson Simon Coveney: ‘Brexit debate in the UK has been frustrating’
British prime minister Theresa May having lunch with farmers at Fairview Farm in Bangor, Northern Ireland, on Thursday. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire Theresa May says visiting Border not a priority ahead of Brexit
Prime Minister Theresa May visits textile producers Alex Begg in Ayrshire, Scotland, during a UK tour. Photograph: Russell Cheyne/PA Wire May denies Brexit a Westminister ‘power grab’ from Scotland, Wales
While the Brexit export exposure is reasonably narrow in terms of sectors, imports from the UK come from a wider variety of business areas Brexit one year off: We only know a little of how it will work
Jim Allister: he has been trying to raise the alarm about some “small print” in the EU-UK draft Withdrawal Agreement Newton Emerson: Something big written in ‘backstop’ small print
Jackie McDonald: “You should not assume that our appetite to remain in Europe outweighs the appetite for the union.” Photographer: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker Brexit or the union: What is more important for unionists?
Britain’s prime minister Theresa May in the House of Commons. Photograph: AFP Photo Union will become stronger after Brexit, says May
The Department of Finance report forms part of the Government’s preparations and contingency planning around Brexit Ireland more exposed by Brexit on imports than exports, says report
Simon Coveney: June is a significant date from an Irish perspective. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times Brexit: ‘serious questions’ if no ‘backstop’ progress by June, says Coveney
Brexit secretary David Davis. Photograph: Kirsty O’Connor/PA Oireachtas delegation urges British ministers to visit Border
John Sheridan, Fermanagh sheep and cattle farmer and member of Border Communities Against Brexit. Photograph: Simon Carswell Brexit: ‘It is going to leave me like a postage stamp on an envelope’
Barry Smith of Abcon Industrial Products, which is based in Cootehill. Brexit: ‘We hope that at five minutes to midnight the politicians will cut a deal’
James Lowe, a farmer in Coalisland, Co Tyrone, and chairman of the Northern Ireland Agricultural Producers’ Association, says most farmer-members want to stay within the EU’s customs union to avoid tariffs and checks on products as they move. Photograph: Simon Carswell One year from Brexit: Border sits under cloud of uncertainty
Brussels to propose €50bn raid on ECB profits
Britain’s shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer: “Legal certainty is now needed.” Photograph: Darren Staples Withdrawal agreement will include ‘backstop’, says May
Vote Leave officials deny breaking election regulations and say they are dealing with an attempt to undermine Brexit by smearing their reputations. Photograph: Getty Images Facebook whistleblower questions Brexit vote outcome
Owen Smith, the former shadow Northern Ireland secretary, who was sacked for calling for a second Brexit referendum. Photograph: PA No such thing as ‘good Brexit for Britain’, says Owen Smith
BoI’s latest Economic Pulse survey detects “tentative signs” that uncertainty posed by the UK’s decision to leave the EU is becoming “less of a drag” for businesses. Photograph: Reuters/Russell Cheyne Irish companies no longer ‘deer in headlights’ on Brexit
IFSC and Dublin Port. Assets under management in the Republic are expected to grow to $8.2tn (€6.6bn) by 2025, according to Trish Johnston, PwC Ireland’s asset and wealth management leader. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien Brexit looms large for European asset managers
The talks which began last June, widely described as “phase one” or the “divorce settlement”, concerned only the political underpinnings of the Withdrawal Agreement. Photograph: Getty Images Brexit: where the talks are at, and where they have to go
Brexit secretary David Davis (right) tells the BBC’s Andrew Marr that when it comes to the Border there will be “no cameras, no booths, no wire, no nothing”. Photograph: PA Brexit secretary signals Border status quo after EU departure
Britain’s top Brexit official, David Davis, said: “Option A is that we get a free-trade agreement, we get a customs agreement, all of those make the Northern Ireland issue much, much easier to solve.” Brexit trade deal will help solve Border problem - Davis
EU summit: Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, with Jean-Claude Juncker, head of the European Commission. Photograph: Jack Taylor/Getty Brexit Border ‘backstop’: Tusk challenges UK to come up with solutions
The Taoiseach signalled this week that the Border issue may not be resolved until the overall withdrawal treaty is agreed by the October deadline Varadkar calls for ‘real engagement’ from Britain as EU summit ends
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith during a leadership debate in Cardiff in 2016. Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA Wire Corbyn sacks Owen Smith as shadow Northern secretary
Noting that the Belfast Agreement had been held up as the “unquestioned gold standard” in terms of peace agreements, Congressman Brendan Boyle criticised recent suggestions by some British MPs that it had run its course. Photograph: Eric Luke Brexit could undo Belfast Agreement, US committee warned
US president Donald Trump embraces Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at the White House during their St Patrick’s week meeting. File photograph: Win McNamee/Getty Images US retreats on trade as EU backs UK on Russia
Speaking at the first day of the EU summit in Brussels, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said Ireland is ‘in full solidarity’ with the UK in its diplomatic stand-off with Russia. Photograph: Getty Images Details of Brexit border ‘backstop’ to be agreed by October
European leaders are gathering in Brussels to discuss whether to rubber stamp the Brexit transition deal. File photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire Varadkar and May meeting as EU leaders gather in Brussels
An old British passport and a burgundy UK passport in the EU format. The planned new post-Brexit blue passport is seen by Brexiteers see as a symbol of the UK’s regained independence. Photograph: PA Wire Post-Brexit blue British passports to be made in France
Tánaiste Simon Coveney: Everything in his Dáil statement during leader’s questions was a perfectly reasonable and scrupulously correct, apart from the reference to a budget, which was an extraordinary mistake. Photograph: Cyril Byrne Coveney blunders in on the British-Irish Conference