'Absolute chaos' looming for firms at Irish ports, warns Cork medical supplies firm

A soft or hard Brexit will be damaging for Ireland, with too little focus on the east-west corridor to Europe, a Cork medical supplies firm has said.

Owen Curtin, chairman and founding director of Healthcare21, which has 450 staff, a turnover of €150m and operations in Ireland, the UK, Germany and Austria, said he feared the Government had not concentrated on the east-west connection with all the focus on the Irish border backstop.