This cross-border training programme for civil and public servants from Ireland and Northern Ireland has brought together nearly 100 officials from central government, local government and state agencies, North and South, to learn about how public institutions in both Irish jurisdictions operate, and to work together on joint assignments across a range of areas of practical benefit to citizens. The areas featured in this report are tourism, the environment, energy and health.

Practical North-South co-operation for mutual benefit is one of the cornerstones of both the Belfast and St Andrews Agreements. These essays outline how practical cross-border and all-island co-operation can make a real difference to improving the lives of the people of Ireland and Northern Ireland.