DUBLIN: Ireland will seek hundreds of millions of euros in aid from Brussels if Britain crashes out of the EU without a deal, the agriculture minister was quoted on Thursday as saying.

“You’re looking at hundreds of millions here,” Michael Creed told The Irish Independent.

“Between the beef industry and the fishing industry we’re talking mega-money.”

With the UK parliament locked in stalemate over the painstakingly-brokered draft Brexit deal, the possibility of Britain leaving the trading bloc in March without an agreement now looms ever larger. The emergency aid for Ireland would aim to buttress sectors such as beef, dairy and fishing.

Published in Dawn, January 4th, 2019