Good Friday Agreement bodies should be used to increase UK/Irish contacts

(front row, centre left to right) Karen Bradley MP and Brendan Smith TD, with assembly members and delegates at the 62nd plenary of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly (PA)

The untapped potential of political bodies created by the Good Friday Agreement should be used to increase UK/Irish relations post-Brexit, parliamentarians have urged.

The British Irish Parliament Assembly, which brings together lawmakers from Westminster and the Oireachtas parliament in Dublin, said a reduction of contact between officials and politicians following Brexit has negatively affected the UK-Irish relationship.