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TAOISEACH LEO VARADKAR is to make two visits to the White House as the St Patrick’s Day engagements in Washington DC are split into two days.
It is tradition for ministers and ministers of state to travel to different places around the world to mark St Patrick’s Day.
On 15 March, US President Joe Biden will host Varadkar for a bilateral meeting. The Taoiseach is also set to attend the Irish Funds dinner in Washington DC on 13 March, a gala dinner which costs $1,000 per plate.
US Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Douglas Emhoff will host the Taoiseach and his partner Matthew Barrett for a breakfast at the Naval Observatory on 15 March.
Varadkar will then attend the St Patrick’s Day celebration at the White House on 17 March.
Biden is the second US president Varadkar has met as Taoiseach, having already met with Donald Trump for previous celebrations.
In a statement, the White House said that during their meeting, Varadkar and Biden will reaffirm the close and enduring partnership between the United States and Ireland and the extraordinary bonds between its people.
“They will discuss the two countries’ shared commitment to continue supporting Ukraine in the face of Russia’s brutal aggression, as well as our coordination on a range of other global issues, including the Middle East,” the statement said.
“They will reaffirm their steadfast support for the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement as we welcome the recent restoration of Northern Ireland’s Executive and Assembly.”
Tánaiste Micheál Martin will visit Vancouver, Ottawa, and Toronto in Canada to mark St Patrick’s Day. Green party leader Eamon Ryan is to travel to Brazil.
The full list of where Government ministers will travel to for St Patrick’s Day can be read here.
How is Eamon getting to Brazil, long cycle I’d say, hypocrisy at its best
@dave walsh: Place to sort out all the phoney fakes of which we have here in ireland is at the ballot box.
@dave walsh: well said
No doubt some clueless moron will focus on how great it is for Ireland’s economy etc and disregard the 30,000 people that Israel have murdered . Surly it is ok to mention people are being wiped out in Palestine.
It’s unbelievable how you get shouted down nowadays for being anti war and anti death . Propaganda obviously works on the gullible
@BL Music: How about make views known on Israel AND ensure positives around economy can be taken advantage of?? Would less people be killed in Gaza if Leo didn’t go over? I doubt it.
@BL Music: so true, I think President Trump will bring a sense of stability& calm to the White House, he’ll address ending all the needless deaths & wars funded by biden……. but if you say that on here the gullible biden.bots get all flustered with profanities & insults. They’ve really been ‘conditioned’ to believing war& death are positives
@Ken Mc Carthy: Trump will bring a sense of calm and stability? What planet have you been living on.
@BL Music:
Palestine Ambasador asked that he go and raise the concerns of the Palestianians
https://www.thejournal.ie/palestinian-ambassador-gaza-must-be-discussed-at-white-house-event-by-irish-officials-6285158-Jan2024/
So you want us to ignore Palestine request? Why again?
@Ken Mc Carthy: You know Trump will give Israel even more money…
Please know your candidate a bit more….
@Ken Mc Carthy: is this the same trump who was directly responsible for the deaths of dozens of Palestinians on the day the US embassy was moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem as directed by him? Stability and calm? Maybe you should ask the Palestinians if they agree?
@Peter Somers: The rape story is being discredited as false. That occupation started long before Hamas. It is the reason Hamas was born. Get your facts right.
@Peter Somers: This must be at least profile number 20. Get a life FFS.
@Peter Somers: No, your lie is not well documented and verified, same as your lie about the IRA.
@BL Music: what about the Israelis rap ed and murder ed by your hamas terrorist mates. You hypo crite
MM will be sooooo jealous…
Hopefully Matthew Barrett will stay off the twitter this time, and not make a fool of himself, in his boredom, sending derogatory tweets, regarding proceedings like he did at the UK gig.
As Eamon Ryan is going to Brazil he should spin by and have a look at the amount of rain forest being destroyed to produce beef to fill the void being left by his policies to decrease beef production here.
I SEE THE IRISH GOVERNMENT ARE GOING AS USUAL ON THEIR HOLIDAYS FOR ST PATRICK’S DAY ABROAD.IF A GOVERNMENT IN ANOTHER COUNTRY LEFT THEIR COUNTRY TO CELEBRATE THEIR NATIONAL HOLIDAY IN ANOTHER COUNTRY THEY WOULD BE TOLD BY THEIR CITIZENS GO BUT NEVER COME BACK.THE SAME SHOULD APPLY TO THE IRISH GOVERNMENT.THEY ARE INSULTING THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND.WHAT IARE THE IDA AND EMBASSIES DOING TO PROMOTE IRIELAND.WITH SO MANY PEOPLE HOMELESS IN IRELAND SURELY THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD STAY AT HOME TO DEAL WITH THIS PROBLEM.SHAME ON YOU LEAVING IRELAND ON A NATIONAL HOLIDAY.WHEN THE NEXT ELECTION COMES UP I HOPE THE ELECTORATE GIVES THE GOVERNMENT THEIR ANSWER.- SHAME ON YOU FOR LEAVING IRELAND.
To be sure – to be sure!
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