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David Trimble: The Irish government is dragging Brexit into dangerous territory 

2 December 2017

9:00 AM

2 December 2017

9:00 AM

When I negotiated the Good Friday Agreement nearly 20 years ago, no one foresaw a day when the -United Kingdom would be leaving the European Union. It was impossible to imagine how the issue of the border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic, from which the barriers were removed as part of the agreement, would again become an issue of such political importance.

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