Twelve ministers and five ministers of State will attend St Patrick’s Day events overseas later this month, the Government has announced.
Announcing the Government’s programme of travel for St Patrick’s Day festivities, Taoiseach Enda Kenny said that now was the time to invest in Ireland’s recovery.
“The Government will use the unique global opportunity of St Patrick’s Day to bring that message to all our key global markets and to Ireland’s many friends around the world,” he said.
Mr Kenny is travelling to Chicago, South Bend in Indiana and New York, in addition to the traditional St Patrick’s Day celebrations in Washington DC as a guest of President Barack Obama in the White House.
Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore travels to Canada to attend a number of trade, cultural and community events.
Other ministers are flying to 15 of Ireland’s trading partners as well as seven locations in the United States.
Among those ministers travelling to the United States are Joan Burton (New York), Richard Bruton (West coast), Jimmy Deenihan (Atlanta) and Frances Fitzgerald (Boston).
Leo Varadkar, accompanied by Minister of State Michael Ring, will visit London and Birmingham, while Minister of State Dinny McGinley travels to Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Ministers flying off to European destinations include Michael Noonan (France), Pat Rabbitte (Italy), Simon Coveney (Benelux), while Minister of State Paul Kehoe goes to Germany with Minister of State John Perry destined for Finland and Sweden.
Arguably the plum trips go to Minister of State Ciarán Cannon, who is travelling to China for the national holiday; Brendan Howlin, who undertakes the lengthy trip to Singapore; and Alan Shatter who journeys to Australia and New Zealand.
The Taoiseach’s engagements include the Speaker's Lunch on Capitol Hill, hosted by the Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner, as well as meetings with vice-president Joe Biden and other US leaders.
He leaves on March 16th for Chicago, where he will meet mayor Rahm Emmanuel, participate in the local parade and address the Irish Fellowship Club of Chicago St Patrick’s Day Dinner.
Later on St Patrick’s Day, he flies to South Bend, home of the University of Notre Dame, whose American football team, known as “The Fighting Irish” is taking part in a game against Navy in Dublin next September.
After a private day in New York, Mr Kenny will visit the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, March 19th, and will attend the American Ireland Fund Gala Dinner later that day.
Hi! This hub is very interesting...keep up the good work. Angie
Hi! Irish Happy Saint Patricks Day 2012. Angie
Ah some things just never change! I wonder how much this will cost us ? Criminal really, and it beggars belief how we just put up and shut up .
itakins.....absolutely agree.....Happy St Patrick's Day
by Tim Mitchell 16 months ago
10 Surprising Facts About St. Patrick’s Day by Time online magazinehttps://time.com/6957676/st-patricks-da … rue-story/The subheadings are listed next. There is brief explanations for them at the article.** St. Patrick’s Day’s namesake was not born Irish ** St. Patrick’s Day began as a...
by theirishobserver. 14 years ago
Lá 'le Pádraig or Lá Fhéile Pádraig When I was growing up Saint Patrick was always somewhere to be seen or heard. Pictures of Saint Patrick hung in every Catholic House and his name was a regular feature of conversation, St Patricks School, St Patricks well, Saint Patricks Chair, Saint Patricks...
by theirishobserver. 13 years ago
Lá 'le Pádraig or Lá Fhéile Pádraig When I was growing up Saint Patrick was always somewhere to be seen or heard. Pictures of Saint Patrick hung in every Catholic House and his name was a regular feature of conversation, St Patricks School, St Patricks well, Saint Patricks Chair, Saint Patricks...
by Wendy Iturrizaga 14 years ago
HubMob Weekly Topic: St. Patrick’s day and the Irish-American heritage
by Gabriel Wilson 15 years ago
Any one out there with some Irish connections? What are you doing on the 17th of this month. It would be nice to know how you celebrate Saint Patrick's day.
by charlie 11 years ago
Why do you think this scripture is ignored by the "professional" ministers?2 Cor 4: 5 For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus' sake.
Copyright © 2025 The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers on this website. HubPages® is a registered trademark of The Arena Platform, Inc. Other product and company names shown may be trademarks of their respective owners. The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers to this website may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website.
Copyright © 2025 Maven Media Brands, LLC and respective owners.
As a user in the EEA, your approval is needed on a few things. To provide a better website experience, hubpages.com uses cookies (and other similar technologies) and may collect, process, and share personal data. Please choose which areas of our service you consent to our doing so.
For more information on managing or withdrawing consents and how we handle data, visit our Privacy Policy at: https://corp.maven.io/privacy-policy
Show DetailsNecessary | |
---|---|
HubPages Device ID | This is used to identify particular browsers or devices when the access the service, and is used for security reasons. |
Login | This is necessary to sign in to the HubPages Service. |
Google Recaptcha | This is used to prevent bots and spam. (Privacy Policy) |
Akismet | This is used to detect comment spam. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Google Analytics | This is used to provide data on traffic to our website, all personally identifyable data is anonymized. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Traffic Pixel | This is used to collect data on traffic to articles and other pages on our site. Unless you are signed in to a HubPages account, all personally identifiable information is anonymized. |
Amazon Web Services | This is a cloud services platform that we used to host our service. (Privacy Policy) |
Cloudflare | This is a cloud CDN service that we use to efficiently deliver files required for our service to operate such as javascript, cascading style sheets, images, and videos. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Hosted Libraries | Javascript software libraries such as jQuery are loaded at endpoints on the googleapis.com or gstatic.com domains, for performance and efficiency reasons. (Privacy Policy) |
Features | |
---|---|
Google Custom Search | This is feature allows you to search the site. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Maps | Some articles have Google Maps embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Charts | This is used to display charts and graphs on articles and the author center. (Privacy Policy) |
Google AdSense Host API | This service allows you to sign up for or associate a Google AdSense account with HubPages, so that you can earn money from ads on your articles. No data is shared unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Google YouTube | Some articles have YouTube videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Vimeo | Some articles have Vimeo videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Paypal | This is used for a registered author who enrolls in the HubPages Earnings program and requests to be paid via PayPal. No data is shared with Paypal unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Login | You can use this to streamline signing up for, or signing in to your Hubpages account. No data is shared with Facebook unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Maven | This supports the Maven widget and search functionality. (Privacy Policy) |
Marketing | |
---|---|
Google AdSense | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Google DoubleClick | Google provides ad serving technology and runs an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Index Exchange | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Sovrn | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Ads | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Unified Ad Marketplace | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
AppNexus | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Openx | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Rubicon Project | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
TripleLift | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Say Media | We partner with Say Media to deliver ad campaigns on our sites. (Privacy Policy) |
Remarketing Pixels | We may use remarketing pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to advertise the HubPages Service to people that have visited our sites. |
Conversion Tracking Pixels | We may use conversion tracking pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to identify when an advertisement has successfully resulted in the desired action, such as signing up for the HubPages Service or publishing an article on the HubPages Service. |
Statistics | |
---|---|
Author Google Analytics | This is used to provide traffic data and reports to the authors of articles on the HubPages Service. (Privacy Policy) |
Comscore | ComScore is a media measurement and analytics company providing marketing data and analytics to enterprises, media and advertising agencies, and publishers. Non-consent will result in ComScore only processing obfuscated personal data. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Tracking Pixel | Some articles display amazon products as part of the Amazon Affiliate program, this pixel provides traffic statistics for those products (Privacy Policy) |
Clicksco | This is a data management platform studying reader behavior (Privacy Policy) |