around farmleigh house which is the irish government's formal reception house for state events.saying, the whole point of this trip is to try and rebuild those relationships between the two countries that were of course frayed during the brexit negotiations. downing street already, before keir starmer arrived, it said it marked a new era of relations between the uk and ireland. sur keir starmer, the first leader he welcomed after his landslide election win injuly was the irish prime minister simon harris. you may remember, and we saw the pictures in the piece from chris page, that they were chatting over pints of what else but guinness at the british prime minister's country residence, chequers, and that happened before the wider meeting of the european leaders that sir keir appeared at after he won a general election. but you can see they are obviously deep in conversation as they walk through the gardens. the weather looks quite nice in dublin, the sun out and later on i mentioned a little early at they will be enjoying the football which is taking place in dublin, ireland tak

counterpart, the taoiseach, simon harris, and we do know they are going to meet business leaders inside farmleigh houseves us an indication that trade between britain and ireland is pretty high up the agenda when these two leaders are talking today. we�*re also told that they are going to be talking about international matters, such as what is happening in gaza and ukraine. now, we know relations haven�*t been, possibly, in a good place. i heard you say there that sir keir starmer is the first british prime minister to visit the republic of ireland in the last five years, and i think that gives you a real indication of where those relations have been at. there were really difficult conversations, there were fallouts over the outworkings of brexit and then how the legacy of northern ireland�*s troubles should be dealt with, so they might be matters that are discussed today. but then the busy day ends on quite a light note, because both leaders will be attending the aviva stadium in dublin to watch a football match between the republic of ireland and england. and that is pretty symbolic, given all those