Well there you are, we seem to moved from Mr McDonald to your own opinion? Anyway, I'm more optimistic than you seem to be about the end result. It's always been very clear to me that this was going to be a rocky road with many claims and counter claims along the way. I wasn't quite ready for the amount of venom displayed together with misinformation from the media. That said, given the lack of concrete real-time reporting by the negotiators, probably inevitable.
Ireland is something totally different, almost personal for most of us I guess. I'm sure we all 'hope' it will turn out well and again I sincerely believe that it will, far too much at stake to let either Brexit, the DUP or even the EU get in the way. I hope that comment doesn't inflame the usual culprits on here. It's only my rather wishful opinion, I'm not the Government, nor am I negotiating.