{"id":454699,"date":"2026-05-18T10:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/454699\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T10:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:25:13","slug":"catherine-connolly-to-meet-king-charles-during-uk-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/454699\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine Connolly to meet King Charles during UK visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The President of Ireland has begun a three-day visit to the UK in which she is expected to meet the King.<\/p>\n<p>Catherine Connolly is making her first official visit to England since her inauguration in November, when she spoke about her commitment to engaging with the Irish diaspora.<\/p>\n<p>Her three-day trip began on Monday with a visit to the Irish Cultural Centre in Hammersmith, west London, where she will deliver an address and meet those participating in an Irish language class.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"427\" width=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/catherine-connolly-to-meet-king-charles-during-uk-visit.jpg\" alt=\"Irish President Catherine Connolly makes a speech during her visit to the Irish Cultural Centre in Hammersmith, west London, as part of her official visit to the UK\" data-title=\"Irish President Catherine Connolly visit to UK\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Jordan Pettitt\" data-usage-terms=\"\"\/>Irish President Catherine Connolly makes a speech during her visit to the Irish Cultural Centre in Hammersmith, west London, as part of her official visit to the UK (Jordan Pettitt\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>She will also view musical and dance performances.<\/p>\n<p>Connolly is also expected to have an engagement with Charles.<\/p>\n<p>The Irish ambassador to Britain Martin Fraser and Deirdre Fraser will host a reception on Monday evening in honour of President Connolly and her husband, Brian McEnery, at the Irish embassy in London.<\/p>\n<p>The visit will continue on Tuesday when the president visits the Chelsea Flower Show and the London Irish Centre in Camden.<\/p>\n<p>It will conclude on Wednesday with visits to Leeds University and the Leeds Irish Centre.<\/p>\n<p>In Leeds, President Connolly will be briefed on the work of the Irish Health Centre there and will also meet representatives of other Irish centres in the region.<\/p>\n<p>It is the third official visit the president has undertaken since commencing her term of office, following visits to Northern Ireland and Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The President of Ireland has begun a three-day visit to the UK in which she is expected to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-454699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454699","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=454699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}