Taoiseach Micheál Martin attending UK-Ireland Summit with Prime Minister Keir Starmer
- Published on: 5 March 2025
- Last updated on: 13 March 2025
Taoiseach Micheál Martin is today (Wednesday, 5 March) travelling to the north-west of England to meet with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer for the first of a series of annual UK-Ireland Summits taking place in Britain on 5 and 6 March.
As part of the overall programme, the Taoiseach and the Prime Minister will co-host a reception on Wednesday evening, 5 March, celebrating cultural linkages between Britain and Ireland and a roundtable on Thursday morning, 6 March, with a number of businesses – across the tech, energy, construction and manufacturing sectors – that have operations within and across the UK and Ireland.
The summit plenary meeting will take place on Thursday, 6 March. The Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defence, Simon Harris, Minister for Education and Youth, Helen McEntee, Minister for Climate, Environment, Energy and Minister for Transport, Darragh O’Brien, and Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration, Jim O’Callaghan, will also attend.
At the summit, the Taoiseach and Prime Minister will agree a wide-ranging programme of new and enhanced strategic co-operation between Ireland and the UK to be taken forward by both governments through to 2030.
Speaking in advance of the summit, Taoiseach Micheál Martin said:
“This summit is one of the most significant bilateral engagements between the British and Irish Governments in a generation and shows the resolve of Prime Minister Keir Starmer and I to put in place the building blocks to bring strategic co-operation between our two countries to a new level.
“I am keen now that we work in partnership on a structured and ongoing basis to realise the full potential of the British-Irish relationship across a comprehensive programme of co-operation, including on infrastructure delivery, opportunities for SMEs, marine planning, energy, education and culture.”