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BRITISH PRIME MINISTER David Cameron has welcomed president Michael D Higgins to Downing Street this afternoon as the historic State visit to the UK continues.
Cameron greeted Higgins as he arrived into Downing Street this lunchtime before guiding him up the red carpet and into Number 10 where they briefly posed for photographs and said a few words in front of the assembled media.
In his brief remarks, Cameron hailed a “very special partnership between two countries who are not just neighbours but really good friends”.
“It is a real privilege to be prime minister of the United Kingdom at a time when Anglo-Irish relations are on such an up,” he said.
For his part, Higgins said there is a “great kind of cooperation” in every aspect of Britain and Ireland’s relationship.
He said that the peace process “requires our continuing vigilance” and thanked the Prime Minister for the “incredible reception” he has received on the visit.
“I am so pleased to be here Prime Minister,” he added.
Earlier, the President met Irish staff at University College Hospital in London before addressing the Royal Society.
His wife Sabina and their two children paid a visit to the Royal Academy (RADA).
After lunch at Downing Street, Higgins has more public events this afternoon before a dinner hosted by the Lord Mayor of London at the Guildhall this evening where some 700 people are expected to attend.
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Pretty ironic that you should make a comment like that regarding eva longoria as she was at the web summit to speak on the difficulties and prejudices faced by women in business !!! You can probably google her achievements in business and with charity work and you should probably in the future refrain from such sexist comments if you dont have your homework done .
No-one’s saying she’s not accomplished Sinead, but a cynic (like me) could argue the reason she was picked to speak at Web Summit was more to do with her celebrity than anything else. AMD microchips, for example, just got its first female CEO so it would make more sense to ask her – or one of the many successful women working in technology – to speak about the difficulties women face in business considering it’s a technology conference.
I believe the word that Sinead is looking for is Touché! Well said Peter.
I think its probably fair to say its more of a technology in businesses conference. And if the CEO of AMD had spoken, i wonder would she have commented on how her salary is substantially less than that of her male predecessor? My point is that if that were the case you probably wouldnt have mentioned that in your summary but you chose to highlight Eva Longorias presence purely based on her looks and fame and not the content of her address.
I think her performance on tonight’s late late speaks for itself…self serving ditz with very little going on between the ears. not that she’s helped much in an interview by tubridy, who is just appalling at what he does
Ringing the bell for Irish emigrants to come home? No way not on your nelly. To much well paid work over here.
(I work in construction btw)
Great to see so many smart Irish start-ups in one place. Good for a bit of networking with overseas heads also.
My favs were Loylap, EnergyElephant, Foodcloud and some german nut who wanted to save the world with a shower head… interesting!
I’m sure a few of these could easily teach Irish Water a thing or two about how to set up a company properly and not p*ss every potential customer off.
I wanted to save the world with an empty plastic bottle … but that’s another story entirely.
Add Jibbr to the list of great Irish start ups.
I thought Loylap gave good pitches as well. Clever idea.
*I agree the LoyLap guys were pretty good. (*=I may be biased :D)
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