This episode of Port Stories is the edited recording of a Zoom-based webinar held on the 21st of January, 2021. The chair and sound engineer is Dr James L. Smith, postdoctoral research fellow on the Ports, Past and Present project. The event explored the complexities of Brexit for the coastal communities spanning the Irish Sea Basin. What coastal connections will strengthen and wane in 2021 and beyond, and what initiatives and stories sustain coastal communities? What aspects of coastal connection endure, and what is in flux from a social, infrastructural and political perspective? Speakers included Jonathan Evershed, University College Cork; Gáinne Ní Aodha, Journalist for ; Rhys Jones, Aberystwyth University; and Ciarán O'Driscoll, Policy and Brexit Research Officer at European Movement Ireland.