Ireland may face fines if no customs checks after hard Brexit

Leo Varadkar said of climate change: 'It is happening right now, it is man-made, and it is unprecedented and it is detrimental to human life'

Ireland could be hit with multimillion-euro EU fines if it failed to carry out customs checks after a no-deal Brexit, according to a European customs expert.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has warned that checks would have to be carried out to ensure that Ireland was not ‘dragged out’ of the European single market.

Michael Lux, who is a former head of the European Commission’s customs procedures unit, said Ireland would actually face the prospect ...