Comment: On sinking ground, Taoiseach urges Brexit sense

You know the perennially-in-crisis Brexit negotiations are getting that sinking feeling when even the city you are in is struggling to keep its head above water.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar was in Venice yesterday with hopes the notoriously romantic Italian city could whisper some badly needed sweet nothings back into the EU and UK’s increasingly deaf ears.

The Unesco world heritage site which is dominated by gondolas and the inspiration behind Casanova’s Historie De Ma Vie and Vivaldi’s music has worked wonders on even the most doomed relationships for centuries.