Here are the highlight's of US President Joe Biden's three-day trip to the island of Ireland.
Tuesday Hello, Northern Ireland!Biden arrived in Ireland just after 9pm, disembarking Air Force One at RAF Aldergrove.
Biden then met with leaders of the five main Northern Irish political parties before giving a speech at Ulster University’s new £350 million campus in Belfast. Real pleasure to welcome @POTUS to Dublin today. Looking forward to a good discussion in Farmleigh tomorrow after his trip to County Louth pic.twitter.com/GlBRoq3aeXBiden was originally intended to travel to Louth by helicopter but due to weather conditions it was decided that he should he travel by motorcade to Carlingford.
Biden then took a tour of the castle with Micheál Martin and Rob Kearney, while shouting down to reporters that the weather was “fine, it feels like coming home”. Biden then signed the visitor’s book at the Áras and inspected members of the Defence Forces outside, where Ámhrán na bhFiann was played.President Biden shakes hands with President Higgins and Sabina Higgins and describes what he wrote in the book - he spent nearly two minutes writing his note@thejournal_ie pic.twitter.com/jW1NasPDJYHiggins and Biden then took part in a tree-planting ceremony and rang the Áras’s peace bell.
Biden begins his addres: “Growing up, my Grandpa Finnegan used to say, ‘if you’re lucky enough to be Irish, you’re lucky enough.” The Academic, The Coronas and The Chieftains took to the stage outside St Muredach’s Cathedral as crowds swelled to at least 16,000 in the late evening.
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