Garda\u00ed have warned of traffic disruption during Thursday and Friday\u2019s visit to Cork city of UK prime minister Keir Starmer.<\/p>\n
Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin will welcome Mr Starmer to Cork on Thursday for the second annual UK-Ireland Summit.<\/p>\n
Mr Starmer will arrive at Cork Airport on Thursday afternoon, departing on Friday afternoon, and normal operations are expected to continue throughout at the airport, but the public is warned to allow additional travelling time due to possible road closures.<\/p>\n
The visit will be concentrated in Cork city throughout both days.<\/p>\n
Lapp\u2019s Quay, Connell St, and Terence MacSwiney Quay will all be closed on Thursday between 4pm and 10pm.<\/p>\n
Localised road closures are also expected to facilitate events, with temporary rolling road closures to facilitate security escorts over the course of Thursday evening and Friday morning.<\/p>\n
With the prime minister staying at the Fota Island Hotel, garda\u00ed have advised that members of the public travelling in around the airport, city centre, and Fota Island on Thursday evening and Friday morning allow time for disruptions and to expect some localised delays.<\/p>\n
Speaking in Cork ahead of the summit, Mr Martin said that at last year\u2019s inaugural UK-Ireland Summit in Liverpool, he and Mr Starmer had agreed a comprehensive programme of strategic co-operation.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday we will mark the progress on what has been achieved over the course of the past year and reaffirm our commitment to deepen and broaden further the co-operation, friendship and partnership between Ireland and the UK this year and out to 2030,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis summit takes place against an uncertain global backdrop and will be an opportunity to take stock of international issues, including the concerning situation in the Middle East and Gulf Region, and in Ukraine.<\/p>\n
\u201cEach day we see how international events can impact also on our domestic ambitions and daily lives, as well as on global security.\u201d He added that over the course of the summit, both leaders would discuss ways of strengthening competitiveness and resilience, while reducing the cost of living, protecting both countries\u2019 marine environment, delivering essential infrastructure at pace and scale, and ensuring energy affordability and energy security.<\/p>\n
Ireland is the UK\u2019s sixth largest trading partner, with Irish companies employing approximately 150,000 people in the UK.<\/p>\n
The UK is Ireland\u2019s second largest trading partner and over the past decade, annual bilateral trade has increased by 107% to \u20ac129 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed have warned of traffic disruption during Thursday and Friday\u2019s visit to Cork city of UK prime minister…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-342557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}