Irish FinMin Donohoe: Too late to tweak controversial Brexit backstop

In a Reuters interview late-Wednesday, the Irish Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe said that it is too late to tweak the Irish “backstop” mechanism in the Brexit agreement

Key Quotes:

“If anyone in the UK involved in this process... had a better idea than the backstop, then they have had many years to table that idea,” he told journalists in Dublin.

“If there is consensus that we do not want to see the return of a hard border on the island of Ireland... all paths do lead back to the backstop,” 

“The Irish government was aware that many candidates for May’s job appeared open to leaving the European Union without a deal, which would have “many serious consequences” for Ireland.”