Irish downplay sovereignty!

The Graun finds more objectors. Unsurprisingly, some more once-cocky Celts are unhappy:

Brexit is “not something to celebrate”, Ireland’s foreign minister Simon Coveney declared after the UK formally severed ties with the EU, as he warned of trading disruptions due to fresh red tape...Calling it the end of an era, Coveney said trade across the Irish Sea would be “disrupted by an awful lot more checks and declarations, and bureaucracy and paperwork, and cost and delays”. 

But on Friday, as the first ferries arrived in the Republic of Ireland from Britain under the new post-Brexit trade rules, events appeared to unfold smoothly. In Dublin, Irish Ferries’ ship Ulysses docked at 5.55am with about a dozen trucks on board, after travelling from Holyhead in Wales, and there were no delays as the freight trailers cleared customs checks....Meanwhile, the first ferries also sailed in and out of the port of Dover uneventfully, although it is thought that the real test is yet to come as the New Year is typically quiet and importers had been stockpiling products before the end of the transition period.

We can only hope for chaos in the future, as always. In a move surprisingly indifferent to, even ignorant of his own country's fraught political history, Coveney said

we’re seeing the United Kingdom moving in a different direction on its own, chasing some notion of trying to re-find its sovereignty

Sovereignty! Who would concern themselves with that!