Charlie Flanagan to meet with Stormont government over Brexit

While the Brexit news sinks in to the people of Northern Ireland, the country’s farmers are wondering how it will affect their future.

Theresa Villiers was responding to comments from Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on the prospect of the Scottish Parliament voting against a legislative consent motion to change the law in Scotland to reflect the referendum result.

Garth Cairns, managing director of SlurryKat Ltd., an agri-machinery manufacturer based in Waringstown, Northern Ireland, said he welcomed the Brexit vote.

Mrs Foster said: “We should send out a very strong message here today – the vote on Thursday was to leave the institutions of the European Union”.

Sheila Steele, a Londoner with bright blue eyes, said that she made a decision to apply for an Irish passport after the “dreadful” referendum result.

Over 500,00 people from the north hold Irish passports.

Ireland is working urgently and intensively to secure progress made by the peace process in the wake of the Brexit vote, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said.

In Canada, we have avoided the dislocation that will most certainly come to define what we still call Great Britain for the next few years but if Scotland goes on its own, the concept of “Great Britain” will be very much diminished.

SDLP leader Colum Eastwood provided a different interpretation. “I and my party believe that it would be unacceptable for Scotland to be treated as a normal candidate country should it seek to remain as a member of the EU”.

But Northern Ireland was less enthusiastic about Remain than Scotland.

However, the highly topical matter of Brexit has been added to the agenda.

“Well, as soon as I realized, I contacted my sisters and said, you know, ‘I’ve got a plan to save us, ‘” she said.

He said he had encountered a desert border post at the southern end of Argentina and Chile, and that a guard had purposely put his British passport at the bottom of the pile while vetting a queue of travellers before denying him entry altogether, claiming he was too young to proceed.

The secretary of state is to host the Irish foreign minister at 13:00 BST.

‘I think in the immediate future the focus needs to be on the whole issue of how we can maintain our relationship with Europe which has been so beneficial to us over the course of the last number of decades’. There is an onus on the Irish government to protect the mandate of the people in the 6 counties who voted to remain.

Letterkenny is a border town located around 20 miles from Derry and the first major town in Donegal encountered when you leave Derry and head south into the Republic of Ireland.

“I and my colleagues in Government have been very clear all along that a Leave result in this referendum would have very significant implications at a national, bilateral and global level”, Mr Kenny said. How can we then draw down monies for cross border projects? “The opportunities vastly outweigh any short term uncertainties”, he said.

Northern Ireland Agriculture Minister Michellle McIlveen said she will defend the interests of the agri-food industry in any further negotiations. And with a weak sterling, it is likely that people will be more cautious when it comes to discretionary spending on things such as trips overseas.

I checked the news on my phone as I dressed my daughter for school and, sure enough, 51.9 percent of people in the United Kingdom had voted to leave the European Union.