We must keep open borders: Taoiseach

The importance of a common travel area between Ireland and Britain has to be “protected” at all costs, Taoiseach Enda Kenny will tell British Prime Minister Theresa May at a face-to-face meeting next week.

He will raise the issue as one of the matters of priority at a post-Brexit meeting in London with Ms May.

Alongside new Northern Ireland secretary James Brokenshire at a meeting of the British-Irish Council in Wales yesterday, Mr Kenny said the common travel area was vital to both countries’ economies, tourist industries, and close relationship.