Ireland's President Michael D Higgins send his congratulations to President-Elect Biden

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President Higgins is a poet in his own right, and Irish poetry is something close to Joe's heart.

President Michael D. Higgins said that “today, I have conveyed my best wishes to President-elect Joe Biden, wishing him and the American people every good fortune for his term in office and congratulating him, and congratulating Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on her historic achievement”.

“Sabina and I, and the staff at Áras an Uachtaráin, have the warmest memories of Joe Biden’s two visits to us,” Higgins said.

“The bonds between the peoples of Ireland and the United States are close and strong, and I look forward to our two countries working together to rebuild the much-needed trust in the methods and institutions of national and international solidarity and cooperation,” he said.

That solidarity is indispensable, if we are to address the urgent challenges of our time, including such diverse issues as the need to address the cause and consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, global poverty, hunger, migration and the digitisation of our economies, all issues on which the President-elect has expressed a commitment.”

“On behalf of the people of Ireland, I wish President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris every success in the years ahead,” Higgins said.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

1. Ireland rocks.

My Irish folks are from County Galway, County Clare, and County Mayo, and our ancestral burial ground is the Kilcorban Churchyard. I have cousins spread all over the Republic of Ireland. Hope to go back in August, but worried that my liver won't be able to handle it.

Never met her, but Stephanie Preissner is my 2nd cousin.

[OnDoutside]

2. Lovely part of the world !

I have cousins a little further down Lough Derg in Scariff/Feakle and Killaloe, while I'm in Cork. Drink plenty of water between now and then, and you should be fine ! Hopefully, we will have a vaccine by then. My brother was looking to come back last Easter, but it may be the same timescale as yourself before he can get back now.