North South Consultative Forum

Will be blogging and twittering from the first North South Consultative Forum that will be held in Dublin tomorrow at Farmleigh.

It is an initiative from Taoiseach Brian Cowen to look at the future of North South relations in terms of social, civil and economic relations.

I hope it is not just an effort to make up for not including Northern Ireland in the huge economic diaspora event held in Farmleigh in September.There was only one Northern Ireland representative at the event and despite often referring to the Northern Ireland peace process and tackling challenges on an all-island basis there wasnt even a session on crossborder trade.

Hopefully this will be a new commitment from an Irish government fresh from the victory over the Lisbon Treaty.

So lets see what happens tomorrow.