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Emmanuel Macron to visit Dublin next week for meetings with Taoiseach and President Higgins

His time in Áras an Úachtaráin will also feature “a meeting with a number of prominent writers and thinkers”

FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMANUEL Macron will make a visit to Dublin next Thursday and will meet with Taoiseach Micheál Martin and President Michael D Higgins. 

The one-day trip is described as a “short working visit” in which Macron will be welcomed in Áras an Úachtaráin by President Higgins before travelling to Government Buildings for a working lunch with the Taoiseach. 

The government says the meeting between Macron and Martin will focus on current EU and international issues, Covid-19 and Irish-French relations.

During Macron’s visit to Áras an Úachtaráin, President Higgins’ diary outlines that the two heads of state will hold a bilateral meeting followed by “a meeting with a number of prominent writers and thinkers”.

In the evening, President Higgins and his wife Sabina will host a working dinner in honour of the French President.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian travelled to Dublin earlier this year to meet with his counterpart Minister Simon Coveney with hopes expressed at that point that Macron would visit before the end of 2021. 

Le Drian will again travel next week as will Minister for the Economy Bruno Le Maire and Secretary of State for European Affairs Clément Beaune.

Their itinerary will include bilateral meetings with Irish counterparts Coveney, Paschal Donohoe and Thomas Byrne. 

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    Jun 17th 2014, 1:37 PM

    Congrats, well done! A subject near to my heart.

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    Jun 17th 2014, 12:21 PM

    Make sure you tell him no testing on children now!

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    Jun 17th 2014, 1:56 PM

    James, I think your comment went over the heads of most people – I know where you’re coming from though.

    Wellcome or Wellcome Trust, now merged into GlaxoSmithKline, is the pharmaceutical company that mistakenly administered CATTLE vaccines to 80 babies and children in “mother and baby” homes in Ireland.

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    Jun 17th 2014, 2:21 PM

    Wellcome Trust is not the Wellcome Foundation. Sir Henry Wellcome used a whole lot of money he got from the Wellcome Foundation (which was the pharmaceutical company now merged with GSK) to set up an independent medical charity called the Wellcome Trust which is not controlled by pharmaceutical companies. They fund various kinds of medical research. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellcome_Trust
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    Jun 17th 2014, 2:42 PM

    Denis,

    The Trust only “divested itself of any interest in pharmaceuticals” in 1995 so, as far as I’m concerned, Wellcome Trust was indeed linked to Wellcome Foundation during the cattle vaccine “studies” in “mother and baby” homes, all of which were carried out prior to 1995.

    So, I’m sorry – I’m not convinced by your explanation.
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