Unions wary of Brexit complacency

Not so long ago, people regularly advised one to “wake up and smell the coffee”.

Patricia King, general secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU), is certainly wide awake and she reckons she has recently caught a whiff of something altogether more rancid.

Ms King was on hand to address a conference on Brexit, organised by the trade unions Impact and Siptu, along with the Charter Group, a pro-EU civil society group.