Irish Examiner view: Focus on issues not personality

Martin and Johnson to meet at Chequers today

Taoiseach Micheál Martin is to travel to the UK and meet with Boris Johnson, the British prime minister, at Chequers today.

If the relative peace of recent decades has encouraged an impression that the relationship between British and Irish leaders is not as important as it might once have been to gather momentum, that complacency has been shattered.