‘Brits are suffering but for us it’s boom time’: how Brexit boosted French and Irish ports

A vehicle embarkation ramp at the port of Cherbourg. Photograph: Christophe Petit-Tesson/EPA

Rain or shine, Colm Lambert likes to sit on a bench overlooking Rosslare port on the south-eastern tip of Ireland and watch the new freight ships and passenger ferries sailing in from the Irish Sea.

“They’re coming in from France, Spain, Belgium, Holland – it’s great to see,” he said. “Brexit has made an awful difference to here. Boris Johnson did Rosslare a favour.”