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It’ll be the first time in nearly 60 years a Castro has not ruled Cuba.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan briefed his Cabinet colleagues on Tuesday about improving links between the two countries.
Was President Higgins’ Castro tribute appropriate, asks Barry McLoughlin.
Castro’s ashes will be laid to rest in a final ceremony on Sunday.
The footballing great built a friendship with the former Cuban leader.
The death of the former Cuban leader has sparked a mixed response.
Donald Trump, meanwhile, called Castro a “brutal dictator who oppressed his people for six decades”.
The revolutionary leader shaped Cuba for more than 50 years.
The ‘father of the Cuban Revolution’ has recently re-emerged into the public eye after a decade in the shadows.
Obama last week became the first US president to visit Castro’s Cuba since the communist leader came to power in 1959.
“These 50 years have shown that isolation hasn’t worked. It’s time for a new approach,” said Barack Obama.
Cuba has offered to help in the fight against the disease.
*According to the Conference North side’s official Twitter account.
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This is the second five year term for the 81-year-old Raul Castro who officially took over from his brother Fidel in 2008.
The 81-year-old is due to be installed for another five-year term on Sunday – but may not see it through.
Cuban leader Fidel Castro left a gift for then-Taoiseach Charles Haughey during his brief stopover in Shannon in late 1982.
The Titanic disaster, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Anglo-Irish Treaty: 2012 has been a big year for commemorations. Here’s your guide to the bigger commemorations held this year.
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Venezuela’s Vice President, Elias Jaua, said that he met with the aging revolutionary, which was Castro’s first public appearance in a number of months.
It didn’t take long for the new Miami Marlins manager to land himself in trouble.
The Pope gave an unusually political speech before hundreds of thousands of people in Cuba today.
A US politician has written to the Taoiseach urging him to stop the statue being built – but supporters of the project say the statue will commemorate Che’s Irish heritage. What do you think?
Enda Kenny is presented with a letter from the chairman of the House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs committee.
Galway City Council plans to erect a monument marking the revolutionary fighter’s links with the City of the Tribes.
The Venezuelan leader says he will still run in October’s presidential election despite the recurrence of his illness.
The former Cuban leader has slammed the Republican Party candidates vying for the nomination to face Barack Obama in the autumn.
A state-run website says Twitter allowed the phrase ‘fidelcastro’ to trend, furthering a false rumour that he had died.
The move is part of a series of free-market changes introduced by Raul Castro since he took over from Fidel.
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The former Cuban leader has dismissed Barack Obama’s recent UN speech and condemned Nato’s campaign in Libya as a “monstrous crime”.
The Venezuelan president has also had plenty to say about his country’s performance at the Copa America.
New pictures have emerged of the Venezuelan president chatting with his Cuban counterpart.
The Venezuelan president reappeared on Twitter on Friday, but he hasn’t been seen in public for two weeks after undergoing surgery in Cuba.
Raul Castro says top politicians should be limited to two five-year terms – signalling a possible withdrawal from public life.
The Cuban leader needed convincing to have surgery after being diagnosed with a perforated intestine in 2006, and nearly died.