{"id":535335,"date":"2026-07-06T07:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T07:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/535335\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T07:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T07:23:10","slug":"commemorative-e2-coin-to-mark-irelands-eu-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/535335\/","title":{"rendered":"Commemorative \u20ac2 coin to mark Ireland’s EU Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new \u20ac2 EU Presidency commemorative coin is being launched to mark the first working week of Ireland’s term in the six-month role.<\/p>\n

T\u00e1naiste and Minister for Finance Simon Harris will formally launch the coin alongside Central Bank governor Gabriel Makhlouf at an event at the bank’s Dublin headquarters this morning.<\/p>\n

Mr Harris said: “This commemorative coin marks an important milestone for Ireland’s presidency of the Council of the European Union. It is a lasting reminder of Ireland\u2019s role at the heart of Europe.<\/p>\n

“Long after our presidency has concluded, this coin will continue to circulate across Europe.<\/p>\n

“I hope it will serve as a reminder of Ireland\u2019s contribution to the European Union and the important work undertaken during our presidency.”<\/p>\n

As part of the first working week of Ireland’s six-month presidential term, a number of meetings will be held in Ireland and abroad.<\/p>\n

These include a two-day meeting concluding today in Co Mayo involving Minister for Social Protection Dara Calleary and his counterparts in other EU member states<\/a>; and a meeting of EU finance ministers in Brussels later this week, which will be chaired by the T\u00e1naiste.<\/p>\n

Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin will also give an address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg tomorrow, during which he will outline Ireland’s presidential priorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new \u20ac2 EU Presidency commemorative coin is being launched to mark the first working week of Ireland’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-535335","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\/535335","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=535335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}