Brexit Backlash: Former ministers, diplomats and economists fear for Ireland

A growing chorus of influential former cabinet ministers, policymakers and renowned economists are challenging the Irish government’s Brexit strategy, as startling new figures show a surge in business failures and a decline in corporate deal making since Britain’s referendum to leave the EU.

Warnings are coming this weekend from former Central Bank governor Patrick Honohan, ex-finance minister Alan Dukes and one of the world’s leading economists, Nobel Prize-winner Edmund Phelps.

Michael McDowell, a ...