Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said that she believes that the stalemate on the Northern Irish protocol could “move quite quickly”.
It comes as Tanáiste Micheál Martin said that he was not made aware in advance that Ms McDonald would be excluded from meetings with the British Foreign Secretary in Belfast on Wednesday.
Talks on Brexit collapsed on Wednesday after Ms McDonald was told that she would not be allowed into talks with James Cleverly. The SDLP also refused to attend the talks following her omission.