Enda Kenny needs 'space' to negotiate best Brexit deal for Ireland says Fine Gael MEP

The Taoiseach must be given “space” to negotiate the best deal for Ireland in relation to Brexit, a Fine Gael MEP has claimed.

Mairead McGuinness has stood by her party leader, Enda Kenny in an apparent move to silence recent calls on him to make public his plans for stepping down.

Speaking at the MacGill Summer School yesterday Ms McGuinness said: “Now is the time for the Taoiseach to be given the space to deal with this European issue that has all-Ireland implications.”