Brexit proposals: Irish solution to a British problem

‘UNPRECEDENTED’ is the key word used in the British government’s position paper on the status of Northern Ireland after the UK exits the European Union. It is the same word employed by Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney in his response to the proposals and by the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier.

What is also unprecedented is the view expressed by UK prime minister Theresa May in an article in The Irish News in which she tells Northern nationalists that it is their

“permanent birthright” to hold Irish citizenship.