The border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland in the village of Bridgend, Co Donegal. Credit: Brian Lawless / PA Wire/Press Association Images. All rights reserved. SDLP Foyle MP Mark Durkan has called for the Irish government to convene an All-Party Forum for political parties North and South to consider the issues and implications arising from the EU referendum result – not least in terms of helping to develop optimum coherence and consensus on how to minimise the adverse economic fallout and ensure growth across the island.
Mr Durkan said: “The Irish government should convene an All-Party Forum for parties North and South to consider the issues and implications arising from the referendum result.
“We must not compound the uncertainties and complications that a UK exit process would bring. Rather than parties getting into kneejerk stances and reciting certitudes which do not actually address the economic uncertainties, we need to collectively appraise the issues and interests, which most need to be managed and protected as an unknown process unfolds.
