Northern Ireland looms even larger an issue for Brexit as US Irish Americans wield influence.

Irish Americans are still focused on the demand that the IRA ends all its involvement in criminality and recognises the rule of law, a nationalist member of Northern Ireland’s Policing Board said today.

Sinn Fein will eventually sign up to Northern Ireland’s new policing structures on the back of others’ work on the Police Board, Stormont Deputy First Minister Mark Durkan claimed today.