Brexit: Protocol issues can be 'ironed out quickly'

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Image source, PA Media Image caption, Congressman Richard Neal (left) met Ireland's foreign minister Simon Coveney on Tuesday Issues arising from the Northern Ireland Protocol can be "ironed out quickly", a US Congressman has said.
"I have on this delegation people who are experts at trade and they also would confirm that they think these issues on the trade front, if that's really the dispute, could be ironed out quickly," he said.
In a tweet, DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said if Mr Neal believed the Good Friday Agreement could be protected by "ignoring the totality of unionist opposition to the protocol" then he "merely exposes his own ignorance and prejudice and slavish adherence to Sinn Féin dogma".
'SERIOUS ENGAGEMENT' Simon Coveney, the Irish foreign affairs minister, said the American delegation was involved in a "very serious engagement on the detail of the issues that we're grappling with at the moment".