Tourism and Transport Minister Leo Varadkar has called for Britain and Ireland to become a common travel zone like parts of mainland Europe.

A motion condemning the recent dissident republican murders in the North is due to be debated at a meeting of the British-Irish Inter-Parliamentary Body in Donegal today.

The murder of 21-year Paul Quinn in Co Monaghan last month is expected to dominate a meeting of the British-Irish Inter-Parliamentary Body in Oxfordshire today.

Anglo-Irish relations have never been better, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern told British and Irish politicians in Dublin tonight.

The first-ever attendance of Democratic Unionist Party members at an Anglo-Irish institution set up under the Good Friday Agreement is very significant, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said today.