Brexit focus needed 'to protect thousands of jobs'

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Brexit focus needed 'to protect thousands of jobs'
- The group will also travel to the Oireachtas on Thursday to give a presentation to the new Seanad Special Select Committee on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union.
Declan Fearon from the group said: “In four weeks time the Brexit talks between the UK and the EU will have started without the Irish Government clearly seeking a Special Status for the North to remain within the EU. “BCAB will argue again and again for the need of a Special Status to be delivered in the negotiations. 
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