Brexit negotiations - Point scoring serves no good

If Ireland is to secure as much as it can during negotiations on Brexit it is essential that the Taoiseach and our European commissioner Phil Hogan are singing from the same hymn sheet.

That is clearly not the case, judging from Leo Varadkar’s public admonishment yesterday of Mr Hogan, directly contradicting his stated view that negotiations are at a cliff edge to a hard Brexit.

“I think we’ve a long way to go yet,” he told journalists in Brussels ahead of the EU summit.