Tanaiste Micheal Martin confirmed that the former US first lady will come to Ireland at the same time as Joe Biden next month.
Mr Martin met the former US Secretary of State at a National Committee on American Foreign Policy event in New York where she was honoured with the Hans J. Morgenthau award for her work on the Good Friday Agreement.
Mr Martin said: "I would have had a very good relationship with Hillary Clinton when I was formerly Minister for Foreign Affairs and she was Secretary of State. "What struck last night talking to Hillary Clinton and Richie Neal was her sustained interest in Northern Ireland which is heartfelt and personal."We also discussed world politics in terms of issues around the rule of law, the United Nations, the challenges now facing the world in terms of the various wars and the war in Ukraine, and climate change."
Mrs Clinton visited Northern Ireland on many occasions and cited Northern Ireland as an example of her foreign policy experience when challenging Barack Obama for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.She is also the chancellor of Queen's University in Belfast.He said: "It's a strengthening of the US-Irish relationship.
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