File Photo - Ireland's Minister for Social Protection Leo Varadkar launches his campaign bid for Fine Gael party leader in Dublin, Ireland May 20, 2017. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Northern Ireland should remain in the European Union's single market and retain access to as many EU programmes as possible to ensure the British province secures a soft Brexit, the favourite to succeed Enda Kenny as Irish Prime Minister said on Monday.
Northern Ireland, which will represent the only land border between Britain and the EU once Britain leaves the bloc, voted 56 to 44 percent to remain in the EU in last year's referendum but the United Kingdom as a whole voted to leave.
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