Follow live as POTUS flies to Northern Ireland to mark the 25th anniversary of the goodfridayagreement
For the best part of a year at least, the prospect of this presidential visit has been discussed among diplomats.
But amid the reminiscing about 1998, the politics of 2023 swirls; stirring a loose idea into an actual visit and then moulding its scale, or lack of it. And so an awkward, if frequent, political impasse here hangs over this blink-and-you’ll-miss-it visit from both the president and prime minister.
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