Fear swirls around Brexit hitting the lifeblood of Northern Ireland’s economy.

Prime minister Theresa May on a farm visit in Bangor, 

Northern Ireland, in March this year. Photo: Getty

As Britain’s departure from the European Union draws closer, discussions about the economic future of a post-Brexit Northern Ireland are increasingly getting fraught with tension over specific concerns.

The Ulster Farmer’s Union sent a fresh warning on Friday about the extent to which a no-deal Brexit would “devastate” the region’s farming sector. It “would be disastrous” if the cliff-edge scenario warned about in the UK’s technical advice papers came to pass, it said.

From every angle—and seemingly no matter what the chain of events—Northern Ireland will be disadvantaged. Monday’s admission from chancellor Phillip Hammond that Britain would have to enforce border checks if the country fails to negotiate a deal with the EU confirms what many in Northern Ireland have been saying for months.

By Edmund Heaphy.

Full story at Yahoo News.