{"id":498943,"date":"2026-06-14T08:27:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T08:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/498943\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T08:27:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T08:27:20","slug":"mark-carney-pays-tribute-to-john-de-chastelain-in-dublin-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/498943\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Carney pays tribute to John de Chastelain in Dublin lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has paid tribute to a general who \u201chelped forge\u201d Northern Ireland\u2019s peace process.<\/p>\n

Carney was speaking at the inaugural de Chastelain Public Lecture at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) as part of his two-day visit to Ireland.<\/p>\n

The lecture is named after Canadian General John de Chastelain, who was head of the international body charged with decommissioning paramilitary arms in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

\"GoodJohn de Chastelain (Niall Carson\/PA)<\/p>\n

He was present in the university\u2019s examination Hall as Carney said it was an \u201chonour\u201d to be speaking under the banner of his name.<\/p>\n

Carney said: \u201cAfter a lifetime of service, General John de Chastelain\u2019s seminal work helped forge and implement the Good Friday Agreement.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeace is never guaranteed. It cannot simply be signed into reality.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is brokered, and built, and embodied by brave and compassionate individuals like General de Chastelain.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carney said de Chastelain \u201cimagined better possibilities that others did not see\u201d.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cHe was ambitious. He understood the power of connection, obligation, and trust.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor us, gathered here to honour his legacy, this is our charge: We must imagine better possibilities, we must recognise the importance of our shared world view and weave webs of connection, obligation, and trust \u2013 across borders and generations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Referencing the words of Trinity alumnus Edmund Burke, Carney added: \u201cIf we can do this, if we build together and with his ambition, we can arrive at a future worthy of \u2018those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has paid tribute to a general who \u201chelped forge\u201d Northern Ireland\u2019s peace process.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-498943","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\/498943","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=498943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}