Simon Coveney: Northern Ireland Protocol issue needs 'to be settled'

The Foreign Affairs Minister said that 'between now and the end of the year', Ireland wants to agree a position to settle it 'once and for all'

Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence Simon Coveney criticised remarks madeby former UK government advisor Dominic Cummings, who said Britain always intended to 'wriggle through' the Brexit deal.

Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney has described reports that Downing Street always intended to ditch the Northern Ireland Protocol following Brexit as "worrying", but that the issue needs "to be settled once and for all".

Dominic Cummings, the former adviser to Boris Johnson until a spectacular falling out with the prime minister earlier this year, claimed that what was signed by the British Government was a way to "wriggle through" a Brexit deal.