These clips show Boris Johnson and Leo Varadkar arriving for their "behind closed doors" Brexit showdown meeting.
The UK Prime Minister is set to make a last ditch attempt of making a deal at the luxury Thornton Manor in Wirral, Merseyside.
Relations are at a low between the UK and EU after Mr Johnson’s latest plan to break the backstop deadlock was rejected.
Brussels’ chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has said it was a non-runner after meeting his British counterparts.
He added: “At this particular point we are not really in a position where we are able to find an agreement.
“The proposal of the British is not something we can accept.” But Mr Barnier still holds out hope of a deal ahead of next week’s crunch EU Summit meeting in Brussels.
Mr Johnson offered a concession on regulatory alignment for both jurisdictions in Ireland, meaning they’ll both effectively be the one market for goods.
But he is refusing to budge on the customs union and wants the North to remain part of the UK for this.
This will inevitably mean the return of border checks and the EU and Ireland have ruled this out.
In the Dail yesterday, Mr Varadkar said: “I think it is going to be very difficult to secure an agreement by next week, quite frankly.
“Essentially what the UK has done is repudiate the deal we negotiated in good faith with Prime Minister [Theresa) May’s government and sort of put half of that back on the table and are saying, ‘That’s a concession’. And of course it isn’t really.”
Boris Johnson and his entourage arrived at the mystery location twenty minutes before the Taoiseach's team at the secret talks location, Thornton Manor, in Wirral, rural Merseyside on Thursday morning.
By Downing Street request, the venue for the showdown talks had been kept hush-hush.
But a small crack squad of just six Irish correspondents and local Liverpool reporters beat the UK subterfuge and were outside Thornton Manor ahead of the Taoiseach and Prime Minister.
Most media attention in the Liverpool area was focused on the ongoing spat between Colleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy, with the Rooney mansion just down the road in Wirral too.
And interestingly, whether Mr Johnson knew it or not, the venue chosen for the talks was the same place where Colleen had her 21st birthday bash.
Also, the constituency Wirral is in voted Remain, by 53 per cent to 47, in the Brexit referendum in 2016.
