{"id":488481,"date":"2026-06-08T04:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T04:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/488481\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T04:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T04:43:14","slug":"canadian-prime-minister-mark-carney-to-visit-ireland-this-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/488481\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian prime minister Mark Carney to visit Ireland this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His trip to Ireland comes just two months after an Irish Government Trade Mission to Canada was cancelled at the last minute as the country was engulfed by the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/maintopics\/fuel-prices_topic-5329865.html\">fuel protests<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Taoiseach confirmed he will meet Mr Carney on Saturday June 13. The Taoiseach will host an official dinner in Dublin Castle to mark the visit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This will be the first bilateral visit to Ireland by a Canadian Prime Minister in nearly a decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Prime Minister will then visit Mayo, where he will meet with President Connolly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cDuring his time in Ireland, he will focus on deepening Canada and Ireland\u2019s longstanding cultural, and people-to-people ties and expanding ties across agri-food, digital innovation, AI, pharmaceuticals, and climate,\u201d an official statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He will also travel to Paris to attend the G7 Leaders\u2019 Summit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIreland and France are two of Canada\u2019s closest and longest-standing partners,\u201d Mr Carney said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIn an increasingly uncertain world, we are deepening these ties \u2013 and those across the G7 \u2013 to build greater certainty, security, and prosperity for Canadians and our partners across the globe.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mr Martin said: \u201cI am looking forward to meeting Prime Minister Carney on his first official visit to Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThe Prime Minister is proud of his Irish heritage, and we will be discussing ways to strengthen our bilateral relations even further.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cCanada is an important economic partner for Ireland, with strong trade in goods and services in both directions. CETA is close to be being fully ratified by the Oireachtas, so this is an ideal time to explore further options for economic cooperation across a range of sectors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe will also discuss global issues including the situations in the Middle East and Ukraine. Canada and Ireland have an excellent working relationship on the global stage and, as we face many geopolitical challenges, it is important that we work closely together to support peaceful resolutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mr Carney previously held Irish citizenship but gave it up upon becoming Prime Minister of Canada in March 2025. He also held British citizenship, which he also renounced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Three of his four grandparents were born in Mayo and emigrated to Canada in the 1920s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"His trip to Ireland comes just two months after an Irish Government Trade Mission to Canada was cancelled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3656,61,60,1843,43],"class_list":["post-488481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-catherine-connolly","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-micheal-martin","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488481","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=488481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}