The realities of Brexit are starting to hit home

We will be physically isolated from the rest of Europe

Ireland will be even more removed from the EU when Brexit eventually happens Pic: iStock

Some of the potential implications of Brexit are beginning to hit home hard this week. And that process is happening on both sides of the Irish Sea, as well as on both sides of the English Channel. The Tory red-line issue of immigration control has been converted by Merkel into a German red-line issue of “no unfettered access to the single market without freedom of movement into Britain”.

For both sides, the issue ...