Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O’Neill has said that she may not attend St Patrick’s Day events in the White House.<\/p>\n
The Sinn F\u00e9in leader in Northern Ireland did not attend the White House last year either.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Sky News today, Ms O’Neill said her decision not to attend last year’s events was based on the situation in Gaza, which has “deteriorated even further” this year.<\/p>\n
“International events are changing day by day, hour by hour, so that will be the factors that I take into account whenever the decision is made, and I’ll say more about that in the coming weeks,” she said.<\/p>\n
“But I’m very clear that the international community have failed. They’ve allowed Israel to act with impunity, they have failed to stop a genocide that was unfolding right in front of our eyes, and I think that when I reflect on what’s happening there now, the situation, even from last year, has got even worse.”<\/p>\n
Ms O’Neill and Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly both visited the US for St Patrick’s Day in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O’Neill has said that she may not attend St Patrick’s Day events in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-275311","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\/275311","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=275311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}