{"id":256979,"date":"2026-01-21T23:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T23:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/256979\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T23:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T23:45:07","slug":"up-to-10-ministers-to-visit-us-for-st-patricks-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/256979\/","title":{"rendered":"Up to 10 ministers to visit US for St Patrick&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of State Neale Richmond has said that nine or ten ministers will visit up to 15 US states around St Patrick&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin has also insisted that he will visit the White House in March despite calls from some Opposition parties that he should boycott the traditional visit.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Richmond told the D\u00e1il that the ministers would seek to build and maintain political and economic links in the US.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you&#8217;re not at the table, you&#8217;re on the menu,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of locations across the globe that will be visited by ministers could be revealed as soon as Tuesday next.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Government figures indicated this evening that this year&#8217;s message from Ireland will focus on its stability as a place to do business as well as being a gateway to EU markets.<\/p>\n<p>Ministers will point out that Ireland is &#8220;a small country that has made a big impact&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of State Michael Healy-Rae, who stayed home last year when his ministerial colleagues made overseas visits, confirmed that he will be dispatched abroad in March.<\/p>\n<p>He described himself as a &#8220;reluctant traveller&#8221; who does not like leaving the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minister of State Neale Richmond has said that nine or ten ministers will visit up to 15 US&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-256979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}