99 days to Brexit: We must ready for no deal

WITH less than 100 days to go to the date when the UK leaves the EU, plans are intensifying both here and at European level for the prospect of there being no withdrawal agreement of any shape or form.

The European Commission has stepped up its planning by announcing new measures to limit the most dramatic effects of a no-deal Brexit while details of the Irish Government’s contingency preparations are going to be published today.