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Germany believes the peace process in Northern Ireland is so important that it will not budge in its opposition to Boris Johnson’s current Brexit proposal, the country’s ambassador to Ireland has told Irish border communities.

Deike Potzel spent more than an hour with representatives from border communities in Dublin on Wednesday night and they said they came away reassured that Germany was supporting their interests.

Damian McGenity, the coordinator of the campaign group Border Communities Against Brexit, said: