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Helen McEntee to bring Meath twist to foreign ministers' dinner in Druids Glen
Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence Helen McEntee, a TD for Meath East, has arranged to put some local touches on the get-together in Wicklow.
Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire, will see governments take stock of Ukraine’s position, discuss future sanctions targeting Moscow and the volatile state of play in the Middle East. Ukraine’s foreign minister Andrii Sybiha is due to travel to Ireland to attend the meeting, as one of several guests invited to join the EU discussion by the Government. The foreign ministers of Norway, Iceland and Switzerland have been invited.
‘I’m officially retiring from my primary school - and I’ve had a good run’is hosting back-to-back meetings, first bringing together EU defence ministers on Tuesday in Druids Glen, followed by foreign ministers the next day.is continuing an intensive bombing campaign targeting Ukrainian cities, overwhelming Ukraine’s stretched air defences and depleted reserves of interceptors that can shoot down incoming missiles. The German government is planning to throw its weight behind a major package of economic sanctions hitting Russia, in response to a foiled drone attack in Leipzig airport.
, the union’s powerful executive body, will soon begin drafting a new batch of EU sanctions, the 22nd round since Russia launched its full-scale invasion. Officials in Brussels are weighing up whether to propose targeting exports of alumina to Russia in the fresh round of sanctions, a move that would hit Aughinish Alumina’s Co Limerick refinery. It was too late to change the location when McEntee took over the role after Harris moved to the Department of Finance.
McEntee, a TD for Meath East, has arranged to put some local touches on the get-together in Wicklow. Food has been sourced from Meath suppliers for a dinner organised for foreign ministers on Tuesday evening. Each dinner table has been named after notable landmarks from the royal county, such as the Boyne Valley, Hill of Tara, Slane and Newgrange. The Government made a decision several months ago to broaden invitations to the Wicklow meeting beyond the union’s 27 governments.
Miliband’s attendance will not be the first time a UK foreign secretary has sat in on such a meeting since Britain’s exit from the EU. His predecessor David Lammy joined an EU meeting in Luxembourg in October 2024 and then-foreign secretary Liz Truss travelled to one in Brussels a fortnight after Russia invaded Ukraine. A Wicklow woman in Marbella: ‘I would make friends in the summer and they would then go home.
But I found my tribe’Farmer Phil: ‘The story goes that a tree in our field was planted by Cromwell’s grandchildren 350, 400 years ago’‘I’m officially retiring from my primary school - and I’ve had a good run’
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