In all areas, the UK continues to backtrack.

The European Union argues that we should be subject to rules of the club that we have left.

The precondition is the level playing field.

We can deliver a real Brexit that achieves our objectives.

But if there is not a deal, we still need the Irish Protocol or the Northern Irish Protocol fully implemented.

I'm going to miss being the pantomime villain. protocol or the Northern Irish protocol fully implemented.

I'm going to miss being the pantomime villain.

Hello and welcome to Brexit Republic, RTE's podcast on Brexit.

I'm Tony Connolly, RTE's Europe editor, normally in Brussels, but currently in Ljubljana for the launch of the Slovenian Presidency of the EU.

And I'm Colom Ongo and RTE's Deputy Foreign Editor in Lovely Dublin.

Each week, Brexit Republic assesses all the latest Brexit developments in Brussels, London and Dublin.

This week, the Belfast High Court throws out the Unionist and Brexiteer challenge to the Northern Ireland Protocol,

while the EU throws an olive branch to the UK on chilled meats and medicines.

We'll look at what the High Court ruling said and what the reaction has been.

We'll also look in detail at why the EU granted an extension to the chilled meats grace period and what other flexibilities were found.

And we'll get some reaction to the deal and figure out why both sides are still at odds over what the extension means and how that might lead to a resumption of hostilities. Tony, first let's take it back 220 years. Before there was ever a Brexit, there was an active union, which, to fast forward 220 years,

has now been superseded.

Yeah, that's right.

So this involves the judicial review that was taken to the High Court by a number of leading unionists,

including Jim Alist, who's the head of the traditional unionist voice, Arlene Foster, the former leader of the DUP

and former First Minister, as well as David Trimble, the former Ulster Unionist leader and co-winner

of the Nobel Peace Prize, and Catherine Hoey, a leading Brexiteer in the UK, as well as Ben Habib, another leading Brexiteer.

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