US President Joe Biden POTUS continues his visit to Ireland, where he will meet Michael D Higgins - PresidentIRL in Dublin and address the Irish parliament later
Mr Biden urged politicians to make a return to governing but praised them for their unity after the attempted murder of one of Northern Ireland's top detectives in February.Northern Ireland has been without a power-sharing government since its second-largest party, the Democratic Unionist Party , collapsed the Stormont executive over its opposition to the trade arrangements for Northern Ireland that resulted from the original Brexit deal between the UK and the EU.
After his Oireachtas address, President Biden will be the evening guest of honour at a state function in Dublin Castle, the former seat of British power in Ireland. On Friday, the US President is expected to travel to County Mayo where he will again explore his Irish ancestry.While in the county the President, who is a Catholic, is also expected to visit shrine at Knock and to make an outdoor speech to people in Ballina before he ends his four day visit to the island.His great-great grandfather Owen Finnegan left there for America in the late 1840s.
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