Border checks are still possible

Leading EU official Pierre Moscovici has warned that potentially damaging customs checks may still be imposed at Irish ports and airports, when Brexit takes place in two years’ time.

And at a lunch meeting in Downing Street today, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar will tell British prime minister Theresa May that a “satisfactory” soft-border solution has not yet been provided.

Speaking on Newstalk radio, yesterday, Mr Moscovici, European commissioner for taxation and customs, said he does not want a hard border between the Republic and the North.