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A senior Irish MEP has said Theresa May needs to convince the DUP to support draft plans to avoid a "hard border" between Ulster and the Irish Republic.

Mairead McGuinness, an MEP with the governing Irish party Fine Gael, told The World at One the Dublin government "need a form of words to allow the Irish side to believe there will be no change in relation to the border".

(Photo: Mairead McGuinness and Jean-Claude Juncker. Credit: Getty Images)