Brexit game has been slipping from us

While publicly, the Government has to state it is preparing for all contingencies, and it is right and proper it do so, it is clear on a political level, things are not going our way, writes Daniel McConnell

It’s senior hurling now lads, as the late Seamus Brennan famously once said.

For months, since the referendum was lost on June 23 last, the Irish Government has stuck rigidly to a tight mantra of what it wants to happen in the post-Brexit world.