Phoenix Park to close from Wednesday evening for Biden’s visit
Dublin Zoo will be closed until 9.30am on Friday but necessary staff will still be permitted entry to care for animals. The zoo says that ticket holdersThe OPW has apologised for any inconvenience caused, saying that all park roads and gates will reopen “as soon as it is safe to do so”.
President Biden will be in the Phoenix Park on Thursday to meet President Michael D Higgins in Áras an Uachtaráin. It is expected that he will ring the Peace Bell and plant a tree, as previous visiting dignitaries have done. From there, President Biden will travel the short distance within the Phoenix Park to Farmleigh where he will meet Taoiseach Leo Varadkar for their one-to-one meeting. It is also possible that the president could visit Deerfield, the official residence of US ambassador Claire Cronin, also located in the park.In the afternoon, Biden will become the fourth US president to address the Oireachtas after John F Kennedy in 1963, Ronald Reagan in 1984 and Bill Clinton in 1995.
President Biden will later visit Dublin Castle on Thursday evening for a banquet dinner before completing his Irish trip on Friday with a visit to Ballina, Co Mayo, the home of his great-great-great-grandfather Edward Blewitt, who emigrated to the US in 1850.
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