Cross-border co-operation in Northern Ireland 'is saving lives'

Cross-border security co-operation is saving lives in the face of an upsurge in dissident republican violence, the Northern Ireland secretary, Theresa Villiers, said on Monday.

Villiers used an Anglo-Irish trade meeting in London, timed to coincide with David Cameron meeting the taoiseach, Enda Kenny, to thank the Dublin government and its security forces for helping to counter the threat from groups like the new IRA.