Calm before Brexit storm as TDs watch on anxiously

"Today is the day" the British Prime Minister reportedly told her Cabinet at the end of their meeting this morning.

They might amount to just ten votes, but the DUP's rejection made it less likely that any Tory rebels who Mrs May had been hoping to persuade, would come on board.Irish politics remains in a state of suspended animation, with all sides waiting to see how things play out across the water with little certainty over what the next few days might bring.For its part, the Government has been keen to strike a measured tone.

The statement was necessary in order to explain why his Government was comfortable with the package that was agreed in Strasbourg. Despite the measured tone, his message was very much that this deal changes very little. Describing the latest deal reached in Strasbourg as "additional clarity, reassurances and guarantees" as distinct from anything more concrete, Mr Varadkar said the aim was to "eliminate doubts and fears, however unreal, that the goal of some was to trap the UK indefinitely in the backstop".

Fianna Fáil duly obliged, with its Brexit spokesperson, Lisa Chambers, saying that it amounted to a breakthrough.

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