Why no-deal Brexit will be ordeal Brexit

The British government’s newly-published Partnership Pack lays bare the full horror of what will happen if that country leaves the EU without a deal

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Tánaiste Simon Coveney at the Getting Ireland Brexit Ready workshop last Thursday at the Convention Centre in Dublin Pic: Julien Behal

I am not sure that last week’s intervention by Tánaiste Simon Coveney, to the effect that the business community was not being sufficiently vocal about Brexit (as reported on the front page of this newspaper last week), was entirely fair.

Many individual businesses, along with their representative organisations, have been vocal in their concerns about what Brexit will mean for their future trade prospects. If business has gone quiet, perhaps it is because ...