The US group, led by Congressman Richard Neal, met a number of business organisations in the final engagement in their fact-finding trip to the island of Ireland to discuss issues around the post-Brexit trading arrangements.

Business leaders have told a bipartisan US delegation the UK Government and the EU will both have to compromise to sort out difficulties with the Northern Ireland Protocol.

They also told members of the influential House of Representatives’ Committee on Ways and Means on Friday that the UK and EU should sit down in a room together with representatives from Northern Ireland to resolve the current trading difficulties.

Northern Ireland is without a functioning devolved executive after the DUP refused to support the re-establishment of powersharing at Stormont as part of their protest against the protocol.

"25 years ago, the governments of Ireland and the UK signed the Good Friday Agreement, marking the end of the longest period of conflict in Irish history. Everyone involved acted together in good faith, with both parties giving up something to reach this agreement." Mr. Neal's Statement on the 25th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.

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