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Leah Farrell
get brexit ready
Brexpo: Four major Brexit events to be held in Cork, Galway, Monaghan and Dublin next month
Although we don’t know if we’re getting a hard or soft Brexit, the government is asking people to prepare for the worst.
LAST UPDATE | 20 Sep 2018
THE GOVERNMENT HAS announced that it will hold four major events during the month of October to inform people of how to prepare for Brexit.
The four events will be held in counties Cork, Galway, Monaghan and Dublin on four days in October, Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney said at the launch of the government’s Getting Ireland Brexit Ready strategy.
“The series will begin on 5 October in Cork, followed by Galway on 12 October, Monaghan on 19 October and Dublin on 25 October,” he said.
The announcement was made this morning, while Taoiseach Leo Varadkar met with other European leaders in Salzburg, Austria to discuss Brexit and the Irish border issue, which is the largest stumbling block to a final Brexit deal.
The aim of the four events will be to make citizens and business owners aware of the difficulties Brexit could present so that people can prepare ahead of time.
“The most crucial and reassuring aspect to our contingency planning remains that, after Brexit, Ireland will continue to enjoy all the benefits of being a full and valued member of the European Union,” Coveney said.
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