{"id":353090,"date":"2026-06-09T13:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/353090\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T13:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:26:10","slug":"first-minister-scores-first-in-san-fran-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/353090\/","title":{"rendered":"First Minister scores first in San Fran visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n COMMUNITY WELCOME: First Minister Michelle O’Neil (right) was welcomed to the United Irish Cultural Center by Majella Campbell and Marie Mallon<\/p>\n

\n News
\n June 09, 2026
\n by Irish Echo Staff\n <\/p>\n

In what was her first visit to the West Coast since her election as First Minister of Northern Ireland, Michelle O’Neill last week met with Irish American and labor leaders in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Over 250 people heard the Sinn F\u00e9in vice-president interviewed by local activist N\u00f3ra Scally onstage at the Irish Cultural Center on Friday past while the previous day she had been guest of honor at a labor leaders lunch which was backed by Mike Casey of the Hotel workers union and Charley Lavery of the Operating Engineers.
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TRIBUTE: At the site of the proposed An Gorta M\u00f3r memorial above the famed Presidio Golf Course with sweeping views of the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco Bay<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Before departing the city, the First Minister also visited the Robert Emmett statue, which enjoys prime position in Golden Gate Park, and was briefed on plans for an An Gorta M\u00f3r memorial in San Francisco.
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FAMILY WELCOME: The First Minister at the San Fran Irish Center with Trish, Pat, Kathy and Maudie McCormick<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COMMUNITY WELCOME: First Minister Michelle O’Neil (right) was welcomed to the United Irish Cultural Center by Majella Campbell…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[107726,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-353090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-irishecho","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}