Contingency plans for ‘no-deal’ Brexit

Enhanced contingency plans to allow Irish ports and airports to deal with a ‘no-deal’ Brexit are to be brought to Cabinet by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, it has emerged.

Mr Varadkar is to table the latest plans in the next 10 days to deal with a no deal Brexit, but Government sources have insisted these do not include planning for a hard border with the North.

Every department has been asked to look at what would be needed and these worse case scenario plans, the sources said, are primarily dealing with a border along the Irish Sea.