American president says at Farmleigh meeting between two leaders that it is ‘so good’ to have an ‘emerging and stronger connection’ between the United States and Ireland
of classified information at the Pentagon discovered last week than about the US president’s Irish visit.Mr Biden would not be drawn on the detail of an investigation into leaked US military documents related to the war in Ukraine. He said there was a “full blown” investigation underway with the intelligence community and the Justice Department. “They’re getting close, I don’t have an answer”.
“The idea they both would seek a new life and think their great, great grandsons would end up becoming President of the United States is just remarkable,” he said.Speaking about his Irish heritage, Mr Biden said: “You hear all these stories about what it was like back in Ireland, they heard from their parents, their grandparents, their great grandparents.”
Mr Biden said he rang the Peace Bell at the Áras four times: “For Ireland”, “for the United States”, for his ancestors and “for peace”Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has welcomed President Joe Biden on his arrival at Farmleigh House in the Phoenix Park for the second engagement of Day Two of his Irish visit. Lots of smiles and waves for the cameras. The presidential schedule is running about an hour behind because of Mr Biden’s late arrival at Áras an Uachtaráin.
The US president talks with pride about the achievement of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement and about his hopes that the Northern Ireland government “begins to function like it used to,” before adding: “That is for you all to decide, not for me to decide,” repeating a similar line from his speech at Ulster University on Wednesday.
Among the other members of Congress in the delegation are former US senators Chris Dodd, currently special presidential adviser to the Americas, and former special envoy to Northern Ireland, Gary Hart. Both Democrats were one-time presidential candidates and are proud Irish-Americans. Another delegate joining Mr Biden is Nancy Soderberg, the former deputy national security adviser in the Clinton White House who played a critical role in the decision to grant Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams a US visa in 1994. That move helped win vital Irish and US support for the Northern Ireland peace process.
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