Dublin will block move to next stage in Brexit talks unless Irish...

Simon Coveney TD, centre, with SDLP deputy leader Nicola Mallon, left, and SDLP leader Colm Eastwood, at a business breakfast in Belfast yesterday. Photo: Declan Roughan/Press Eye/PA Wire The Irish foreign minister has given one of the strongest indications so far that Dublin will not permit Brexit negotiations to move to the next phase without sufficient progress on the Irish border.