Charlie Flanagan: Good Friday deal not diminished by Brexit

The Good Friday Agreement is the “template” for political relationships between Ireland and the UK and has not been diminished by the Brexit vote, Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan has insisted.

He said the Government’s “immediate strategy” was to sit down with the British government and Northern Ireland Executive to “urgently discuss how collectively we are together going to protect the gains of the last decades and to prevent the worst effects of a UK departure from the EU”.

“As a co-guarantor of the Good Friday and succeeding agreements, the Irish Government is determined that its institutions, values, and principles will be fully protected,” he said.