But Arlene Foster wouldn’t play ball. The DUP leader wouldn’t even bring her ball over the border, choosing instead to stay on home turf. Just a short time before the All-Island Civic Dialogue on Brexit kicked off on the campus, she cried foul. As far as the north’s unionists were concerned, Mr Barnier was “not an honest broker”. Oh dear, the carefully choreographed show of all-island unity had suddenly got a bit Messi.

Source: The Times April 30, 2018 22:52 UTC