Brexit among main issues at ambassadors' conference

Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Charlie Flanagan is today hosting a conference for Irish ambassadors and consuls general from more than 80 locations across the world in Dublin Castle.

In a statement, the minister said he had called the meeting to discuss a number of critical challenges facing Ireland, including the response to the outcome of the Brexit referendum. He said Brexit would involve "the most important set of multilateral and bilateral negotiations in a...