The chief executive of employers group Ibec has said he thinks there will be a skeleton trade deal agreed between the UK and EU.
But Danny McCoy said that while we can obsess about a trade deal, the relationship between Britain and Ireland is not about just the trade of goods. "It is about services, it is about capacity to go and have your qualifications recognised," he said. "It it also about citizenship, it is also about justice, it is about a whole host of things that impact on people's workplace, their living standards, their sense of being and belonging," he told The Business Show - Rebooting Ireland Virtual Summit. "So there's an awful lot of 'hanging chads' so to speak that haven't even got to do with business directly but impacts