Brian Keegan: Northern Ireland needs to start taking business seriously

The North is particularly well suited as a distribution centre for UK goods being sold online to European consumers, and vice versa

Trucks leaving Larne Port: There are real difficulties for traders being created by the clumsy handling and checking arrangements in operation between Britain and Northern Ireland.

The Northern Ireland Protocol became something of a stone in the political shoe for participants at the G7 meeting this month.

Judging by some of the news reports, discussions on the pandemic and climate change took second place to tensions over the operation of the Northern Ireland Protocol.