US president Joe Biden is set to visit Belfast, Dublin, Louth and Mayo on his four-day trip to Ireland this week. Here's all the information you need
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After the Ulster University speech, Biden and his entourage will head south for Dublin Airport before moving north again to Co Louth where he will visit Carlingford Castle. Here, he will hear about his great-great-grandfather Owen Finnegan who left for the US in the 1840s.before he returns to Dublin where he is said to be staying in a city centre hotel.
Fourth cousin of US president Joe Biden, John Owen Finegan, from Newry, outside Fitzpatrick's pub in Jenkinstown, Co Louth, where then vice-president Biden met locals during his visit in 2016. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PAThursday will be a day of official engagements in the Republic, starting with Biden, an 80-year-old president, meeting the 81-year-old President Michael D Higgins at Áras an Uachtaráin in the Phoenix Park.
From there, he will travel the short distance within the park to Farmleigh where he will meet Taoiseach Leo Varadkar for their one-to-one meeting. Biden could also swing by Deerfield, the official residence of US ambassador Claire Cronin, also located in the park., following John F Kennedy in 1963, Ronald Reagan in 1984 and Bill Clinton in 1995.US president Joe Biden's cousin Joe Blewitt from Ballina, Co Mayo.
The Irish visit will end with a public address outside St Muredach’s Cathedral in Ballina by the river Moy, a church that Edward Blewitt supplied the bricks for in 1828. This historical link will provide a neat oratorial ending to the visit by this most Irish of American presidents.
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