Under the shadow of the Liberator, Ireland stands firm on Brexit

It wasn’t quite on the same scale as Brexiteers puffing out their chests and quoting Winston Churchill’s “we will fight them on the beaches” speech, but, in an Irish context, there was no avoiding the point being made by the Cabinet yesterday.

With Brexit continuing to stumble from annoyance to crisis to potential disaster, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and his ministers travelled to picturesque South-West Kerry for a special Cabinet meeting on the situation.

And not just any part of south-west Kerry either, with Derrynane — the ancestral home of Daniel O’Connell — the carefully chosen location.