Hard Brexit would hit 142 Irish cross-border agreements

From heart surgery to special needs education to mobile phone charges, an EC and UK study has compiled a list of activities that will be hit

A confidential study conducted by the UK government and the European commission has listed 142 cross-border activities on the island of Ireland that would be negatively impacted by a hard Brexit.

They include heart surgery in Dublin for children from Northern Ireland as well as cancer treatment in Derry for people from the Republic because patients, clinicians and ambulances are free to move across the border without checks.

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Continue reading... November 28, 2017 at 01:41AM