Charlie Flanagan: Brexit forum likely to be first of many

Today’s all-island Brexit forum will be the first in a series of such events and will be followed by other dialogues before Brexit is triggered, according to Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan.

He was speaking amid appeals for unionists to attend the forum, after the North’s first minister claimed it would be full of “grandstanding remoaners”.

Sinn Féin and others have called on unionists to attend the event in Dublin, reiterating that the majority of the electorate in the North voted to remain in the EU in the June referendum.