Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney begins an official two day visit to Ireland this morning.<\/p>\n
After touching down in Dublin Airport, Mr Carney will first meet Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin in what will be the first bilateral visit to Ireland by a Canadian Prime Minister in nearly a decade.<\/p>\n
The meeting with the Taoiseach will be held at Government Buildings at which enhancing trade relations will be discussed before the two host a press conference.<\/p>\n
Mr Carney’s office said that during his time in Ireland, he will focus on deepening Canada and Ireland’s longstanding cultural and people-to-people ties and expanding relationships across agri-food, digital innovation, AI, pharmaceuticals and climate.<\/p>\n
Later, the Canadian leader will visit Trinity College, where he is expected to give a speech.<\/p>\n
Mr Carney will also make a speech at an official dinner in Dublin Castle this evening.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow, the Canadian prime minister goes to Mayo to visit the place his grandparents came from in Aghagower.<\/p>\n
Mr Carney’s grandparents left Aughagower near Westport more than 100 years ago for Canada.<\/p>\n
In Westport, he will meet with President Catherine Connolly and later in the day, he will be the guest of honour at a civic reception in the town.<\/p>\n
Speaking ahead of the visit, Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin said: “It will be an excellent occasion to celebrate and strengthen the bilateral relationship between Ireland and Canada.<\/p>\n
“With such strong Irish heritage, it will also be an opportunity for Prime Minister Carney to celebrate and explore his Irish heritage, and I know Mayo is looking forward to welcoming him home.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney begins an official two day visit to Ireland this morning. After touching down…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-497355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497355","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=497355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}