'Mood music' has changed in protocol talks - Simon Coveney

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The "mood music" has changed in discussions over the Northern Ireland Protocol, the Irish foreign minister has said.

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Simon Coveney made the comments ahead of a meeting with Foreign Secretary James Cleverly on Thursday.

On Wednesday, government minister Conor Burns said he was "pretty bullish" about getting a deal with the EU.

Technical negotiations between the UK and EU are set to restart this week for the first time since February.

Mr Coveney said: "This is a very welcome change of course that the British government is engaging now seriously, as opposed to moving ahead with unilateral action which would certainly have caused a lot more problems than it would have solved."

On Tuesday, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) said it would not restore Stormont's institutions until protocol matters had been resolved.

'Rebuild trust'
Mr Coveney will also co-chair the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference with Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris on Friday.

"But certainly the mood music has changed quite fundamentally, we welcome that, and we will work on not only the relationships to rebuild trust, but also work on solutions in a practical way, and I think that process very much starts in earnest this week," Mr Coveney added.

Mr Burns, a former minister in the Northern Ireland Office, said he believed a "pragmatic solution" could be found with the EU.

'A way through'
However, unionist politicians have protested against the protocol for resulting in additional checks being placed on some goods moving between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

The EU's ambassador to the UK, João Vale de Almeida, said he hoped there would be progress reached in the "coming weeks".

Mr Burns, who is now a minister in the Department for International Trade, said the government's position is that goods travelling to Northern Ireland which are not meant for onward travel to the EU "should be treated differently to those goods which are going into the single market".