# foreign-affairs - Saturday 13 December, 2014
# Failte Roimh
# Failte Roimh
Afghanistan, Bahrain, Israel, Saudi Arabia, USA…
# foreign-affairs - Sunday 2 November, 2014
# Michael D Abroad
# Michael D Abroad
He’s going to Ethiopia, Malawi, and South Africa.
# foreign-affairs - Tuesday 14 October, 2014
# We'll Be There
# We'll Be There
Ireland has attended the ceremony before — but this is the first time we’ve been asked to lay a wreath at the Cenotaph.
# foreign-affairs - Tuesday 30 September, 2014
# New Man In Town
# New Man In Town
The Minister for Foreign Affairs , Charlie Flanagan, is attending the ceremony in Washington DC.
# foreign-affairs - Tuesday 23 September, 2014
# Outbreak
# Outbreak
Members of the Departments of Foreign Affairs and Health are set to meet with NGOs to discuss the issue tomorrow.
# foreign-affairs - Sunday 31 August, 2014
# Mediterranean
# Mediterranean
The tragedy happened on Friday. The Department of Foreign Affairs is assisting the families of the two men.
# foreign-affairs - Wednesday 13 August, 2014
# Escalation
# Escalation
Charlie Flanagan says the EU needs a “strong and unified response to the terror in Northern Iraq”.
# foreign-affairs - Monday 4 August, 2014
# foreign-affairs - Thursday 31 July, 2014
# Recall Debate
# Recall Debate
Senators hit out at Minister Charlie Flanagan over Ireland’s UN vote abstention this afternoon, as politicians came back from their summer breaks to address the spiraling crisis.
# foreign-affairs - Monday 28 July, 2014
# Total Recall
# Total Recall
The Minister for Foreign Affairs is expected to address the chamber.
# foreign-affairs - Friday 25 July, 2014
# Outbreak
# Outbreak
A Liberian national who traveled to Africa’s most populous nation has died in quarantine in Lagos.
# Diplomatic Relations
# Diplomatic Relations
The Foreign Affairs Minister has expressed his “grave concerns” to Israel’s ambassador over the attack, in which 15 people died.
# Under Fire
# Under Fire
He will speak to the Israeli Ambassador but stressed that Israel has a right to defend itself.
# foreign-affairs - Thursday 24 July, 2014
# Under Fire
# Under Fire
The Foreign Affairs Minister has been criticised after Ireland abstained from a UN vote on Gaza.
# foreign-affairs - Tuesday 22 July, 2014
# Foreign Affairs Meeting
# Foreign Affairs Meeting
The extent of the measures will be announced on Thursday.
# Conflict
# Conflict
Charlie Flanagan calls for immediate ceasefire to conflict in Gaza, and urges all sides involved in the Ukraine conflict to cooperate on MH17 inquiry.
# foreign-affairs - Sunday 13 July, 2014
# USA And Europe
# USA And Europe
Under the Obama administration the NSA has continued to grow and Libya has slipped into chaos, meanwhile relations with Russia are reaching crisis point.
# foreign-affairs - Wednesday 2 July, 2014
# Stepping Down
# Stepping Down
Ceann Comhairle Sean Barrett joked that nothing’s official yet but that ‘he reads the newspapers’.
# foreign-affairs - Sunday 29 June, 2014
# Off To Europe?
# Off To Europe?
He said Ireland would be looking for a significant portfolio in Europe.
# foreign-affairs - Monday 23 June, 2014
# Foreign Affairs
# Foreign Affairs
“The surge in violence represents a serious threat to the security, not only of the Iraqi people, but of the whole region,” said Eamon Gilmore.
# foreign-affairs - Friday 23 May, 2014
# Military Coup
# Military Coup
The Department of Foreign Affairs said there is a curfew from 10pm to 5am and Irish citizens should take extra care.
# foreign-affairs - Wednesday 23 April, 2014
# Emigrants
# Emigrants
Spoiler: it involves the right to vote.
# foreign-affairs - Friday 21 March, 2014
# Going Through The Motions
# Going Through The Motions
Delegates at the party’s 75th annual Ard Fheis will vote on everything from disability quotas in politics to legalising marijuana.
# foreign-affairs - Wednesday 19 March, 2014
# Suggestion Box
# Suggestion Box
The Government’s reviewing how it engages with the Irish overseas. You can give your two cents (pennies, jiao – whatever) from today.
# foreign-affairs - Thursday 6 March, 2014
# Irish Aid
# Irish Aid
The Department of Foreign Affairs has argued that aid to the country is going to directly assist some of the poorest people in the world and that it’s a matter of educating people.
# foreign-affairs - Thursday 27 February, 2014
# Foreign Affairs
From The42
# Foreign Affairs
The French club say ligament damage will require between ’10 days and six weeks’ recovery time.
# foreign-affairs - Monday 3 February, 2014
# We The People
# We The People
Where do we stand as a nation on issues like neutrality, aid and inequality? Ireland’s Foreign Policy Review allows us to have our say, writes Hans Zomer.
# Beef Lamb Pork
# Beef Lamb Pork
The figure is included in the Department of Foreign Affair’s first report on its economic and promotional activities.
# foreign-affairs - Sunday 2 February, 2014
# World Trade
# World Trade
Taking the example of Ireland’s evolving relationship with Africa, it becomes clear that the DFA’s review of external relations might not be on the right track, writes Andy Storey.
# foreign-affairs - Saturday 1 February, 2014
# Best And Brightest
# Best And Brightest
Sometimes the lines outside the Irish consulate in Caracas are 200 people deep, forcing a rotating cadre of self-appointed leaders to maintain a 24-hour vigil to stop queue jumpers.
# foreign-affairs - Wednesday 22 January, 2014
# This Is Normal
# This Is Normal
The Tánaiste repeatedly insisted “this is normal” in reference to the Cabinet’s progress on amendments to the legislation.
# foreign-affairs - Tuesday 21 January, 2014
# Activist
# Activist
The wife of President Michael D. Higgins visited the veteran peace campaigner in “private and personal” capacity, according to the Áras.
# foreign-affairs - Sunday 5 January, 2014
# Italy
From The42
# Italy
The side from the capital were reduced to nine men as the champions opened up an eight-point gap at the summit.
# foreign-affairs - Tuesday 31 December, 2013
# Irish Abroad
# Irish Abroad
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Italy was the most popular destination.
# foreign-affairs - Wednesday 13 November, 2013
# Typhoon Haiyan
# Typhoon Haiyan
The UN estimates more than 11.3 million people have been affected with 673,000 made homeless, since Haiyan smashed into the nation’s central islands on Friday.
# Opinion
# Opinion
The Tanaiste will have the opportunity to discuss this country’s red line for human rights abuses – past which Ireland will not tolerate. I urge him to take it, writes Mary Lawlor.
# foreign-affairs - Tuesday 12 November, 2013
# Typhoon Haiyan
# Typhoon Haiyan
It comes as the US and Britain deploy warships to the islands. Some 10,000 people are feared dead in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan.
# foreign-affairs - Friday 8 November, 2013
# Foreign Aid
# Foreign Aid
The country donated €600,000 to the initiative between 2005 and 2011, when the decision was made to cease supporting it.
# foreign-affairs - Tuesday 3 September, 2013
# Middle East
# Middle East
Minister Joe Costello says the crisis equates to “almost every child under the age of eighteen being forced to flee their homes”.
# foreign-affairs - Monday 2 September, 2013
# Russ Finn
# Russ Finn
Russ Finn was freed yesterday, his employers Al Jazeera have confirmed. He was held without charge after being arrested with three colleagues last Tuesday.
