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...In 2021, Taoiseach Micheál Martin issued a similar apology for the “profound, generational wrong” done to former residents of Mother and Baby homes, the religious-run, state-funded institutions where unmarried...
...Micheál Martin, foreign minister, told reporters Biden’s commitment to the Good Friday Agreement “has been extraordinary”....
...“We’d sit there battering away on things like the export of seed potatoes and plants for garden centres.”...
...But President Michael D Higgins said her “enormous contribution to Irish society” lived on....
...British prime minister Rishi Sunak and Micheál Martin, Ireland’s taoiseach, will hold talks on Thursday at a British-Irish Council meeting in Blackpool that Dublin hopes will help outline what concessions...
...Irish prime minister Micheál Martin said Truss’s election opened an “opportunity” to reset relations....
...King Charles later took part in a service of reflection at St Anne’s Cathedral in Belfast, attended by UK prime minister Liz Truss, Ireland’s taoiseach Micheál Martin and Irish president Michael D Higgins...
...Returning to Johnson’s Belfast Telegraph piece, I’d argue that the most important part is the final sentence: In doing our part, we expect all elected representatives to get back to work and deliver for...
...Plus, the winners of the Palme d’Or awards are announced at the close of the Cannes Film Festival. Sunday Colombia, presidential election....
...The gas is greener It’s D-Day for the EU’s fraught publication of its green finance rules, writes Mehreen Khan in Brussels....
...Ireland’s Taoisoeach, Micheál Martin, hailed him as a “peacemaker”. President Michael D. Higgins called him a “dedicated, sincere and very committed politician”....
...“If you’re not planning to do something [with Davy] immediately, you’d wait and see what happens,” he said....
...“I’d spoken to about four companies in the previous eight years,” he added. “Clearly [Northern Ireland is] being noticed.”...
...“The UK variant has had a very significant impact in terms of the rapidity of the growth of transmission, of that I am convinced,” Micheál Martin, the prime minister, told NewsTalk radio on Monday....
...“You’d think with a federal election coming in Germany in September, they’d have every political incentive to work like clockwork. They’ve clearly failed.”...
...I’d also contend that Biden is the first practising Catholic to occupy the White House, though that point could be argued. But a lot of Biden's Irishness is for domestic consumption....
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...From a distance it appears that momentum is building towards a Brexit deal — an impression fuelled by comments this week from the Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin that both the UK and EU can see “the landing...
...Britain and the EU can see the “landing zones” for a free trade agreement, according to Ireland’s prime minister Micheál Martin....
...Even close allies of Mr Varadkar acknowledge that Mícheál Martin, Fianna Fáil’s leader, is a viable alternative prime minister....
...More than half the Fianna Fáil MPs want to retain the ban but Mícheál Martin, the party leader, does not....
...Mícheál Martin, Fianna Fáil leader, called Ms McDonald one of the “great defenders” of the IRA narrative....
...A meeting between Mr Varadkar and Micheál Martin, Fianna Fáil’s leader, broke up shortly before 5pm on Friday, with no sign of a breakthrough....
...Here on the blog, we thought we’d provide a more in-depth taste of the potential hiccups ahead....
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