Irish Examiner View: Time for a thaw in relations with Britain and Northern Ireland

Trust takes time to rebuild, and we don’t have a vast supply of that.

British prime minister Liz Truss and Taoiseach Micheál Martin at the service of reflection for Queen Elizabeth II at St Anne's Cathedral in Belfast.

For the first time in half-a-dozen years there is a small sense that, if there is not yet a thaw in frosty relations between ourselves and the EU with Britain and the North, there may be at least a feeling that an early spring could be on its way.

And of course, this makes absolute sense. Both ourselves and our neighbours have far more problems in common at present than we have issues dividing us.