Leo Varadkar moves Joe Biden to tears when he quotes the president’s late son, Beau Biden
The Taoiseach Leo Varadkar made a plea for the immediate need for bombs to stop in Gaza the central part of his speech at the annual shamrock ceremony reception in the White House with president Joe Biden.
The civil service financial management system is in danger of going over budget. Why are the staff so relaxed? “We see our history in their eyes. A story of displacement, of dispossession, of national identity questioned and denied. Forced emigration. Discrimination. And now hunger.” Speaking outside the White House in Washington DC before the St Patrick’s Day ceremony with US president Joe Biden on Sunday, Mr Varadkar defended the custom saying it forms part of a weeklong programme that involves comprehensive engagement with the US administration on high level policy.
Mr Varadkar argued that Ireland was a small country but could use its voice. “We can call for an immediate ceasefire as we have for quite some time to a country that’s big, powerful, influential like America. They’re the ones that can make it happen, but they don’t just make it happen by calling for it. They have to try to negotiate it. And that is what they’re doing”.
“Over the past few months ... I’ve seen the European position move and the US position move as well. It’s much closer to our position than it was in October or November.
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