“This is the UK government unilaterally breaking an international agreement, but they’re breaking their own agreement that they negotiated and finalised on Christmas Eve,” Mr Ahern told Cormac O hEadhra on RTÉ’s Drivetime.
“The main thing is that people calm it down.people are just upping the temperature, which is never good in these things.
“Boris decides to shift him [Michael Gove] for some strange reason last week and in comes David Frost who decides to up the ante and show he is a tough guy, as he did with Michel Barnier and drove Barnier mad for the last few years.
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