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

I'm Sean Whelan, RTE's London correspondent, back in Westminster this week.

And I'm Colombeau-Mungown, RTE's Deputy Foreign Editor in Dublin.

Each week, Brexit Republic assesses all the latest Brexit developments

in Brussels, London and Dublin. Well, does anybody actually care about Brexit anymore? Or is it

all coronavirus? Next week's negotiating round between the EU and the UK is cancelled, or so it

appears. But what about the Brexit deadline of December 31st? Is that sustainable?

The Northern Ireland border issue is always with us, be it for Brexit or coronavirus. We'll look at the latest.

And there was a budget in the UK this week. How Brexit-y was it?

And we'll have an interview with Catherine Day, the former Secretary

General of the European Commission, on a surprising silver lining depending on what way you look

at it from UK's departure from the European Union. But first of all, Sean, we can't avoid

it. Coronavirus. It's definitely overtaken Brexit and again key points of difference between Ireland and the UK in terms of their response to it as well. People are looking rather askance at the gathering of Cheltenham, which it must be said includes tens of thousands of Irish people over there as well. But there's a definite lack of the caution that's been shown on this side of the water in the UK.

Everybody's going to get it. It seems to be the approach here in Britain.

And it is very different to the approach in the rest of Europe.

And if we remember back, one of the reasons I was in Brussels last week was reporting on an extraordinary meeting of health ministers.

There's been a coordination process being

jacked up at EU level. Britain was invited to take part in that, but declined apparently because of

the Brexit process and not wishing to be involved in anything to do with the European Union,

although Switzerland is involved in that coordination measure at EU level.

But we are now starting to see a very radical divergence.

There's a good Brexity word between the health policies that are being carried out by EU countries

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