.POTUS travels to Ireland today, one day after the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, which ended decades of violence on the Emerald Isle. Biden is the eighth president to visit Ireland and second Irish Catholic president.
Biden is the eighth president to visit Ireland but just the second Irish Catholic to hold the nation's highest office. On the trip, he will hold bilateral meetings with Irish President Michael Higgins, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, who visited the White House on St. Patrick's Day in March, and United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
And though the Irish Republican Army bombings that characterized the Troubles have largely ceased following the accords, the terror warning for Northern Ireland was raised to"severe" ahead of Biden's visit after law enforcement uncovered a bombing plan by the New IRA in Londonderry. Past diplomatic breakthroughs, such as the Good Friday Agreement, have all but disappeared in the 21st century. The president thus far has failed to broker a new nuclear deal with Iran, is stuck firmly between escalating violence in the Isreali-Palestinian conflict, and the billions worth of security and humanitarian aid the U.S. and allies are providing Ukraine have blunted but not reversed Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of its Western-aligned neighbor.
Still, White House officials told reporters Monday that Biden"is very much looking forward" to the trip and"celebrating the deep, historic ties that our two countries and our two people continue to share."
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