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A common sense solution should be found to Northern Ireland Protocol problems like the supply of soil, a former Irish tanaiste said.
The Republic’s ex-attorney general and justice minister Michael McDowell said his jurisdiction faced many of the same challenges which concerned unionists, like obtaining seed potatoes from Scotland.
He questioned why the European Commission was pursuing legal action over the UK’s unilateral extension of post-Brexit grace periods and called for better cooperation.
“There is a common sense to easing the new arrangements into existence.
“The idea that plants cannot be moved from Britain to Northern Ireland in particular without removing the soil from them; these are the kind of issues that common sense would suggest should be addressed in a common sense way. ....

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