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  • Harris, 37 - currently further and higher education minister - will be formally elected as Ireland’s premier, or taoiseach, in April
  • In a surprise announcement last week, Premier Leo Varadkar said he would step down as Fine Gael leader and would resign as taoiseach

With 1.4 million likes on TikTok, and hundreds of thousands of followers on both X and Instagram, the 37-year-old posts content almost daily to his audience.

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In 2017, Varadkar became the first gay prime minister of the once-staunchly Catholic country and the youngest person to hold the office.

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China’s top diplomat will try to find openings for Beijing’s interests amid continent’s panic over ex-American leader’s possible return, analysts say.

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UK PM Rishi Sunak will meet Sinn Fein’s Michelle O’Neill and Democratic Unionist party leader Emma Little-Pengelly at Stormont on Monday, his Downing Street office said.

In Brussels, Beijing’s promises to individual EU states are seen through the lens of a combative and defensive China unwilling to yield on major issues.

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Met Office said tornado could hit western parts of UK after research organisation Torro said Ireland, Northern Ireland, parts of Scotland and northern England were ‘tornado watch’ zones.

Li Qiang, in discussions with Michael Higgins as well as with Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar, is the first member of Chinese leadership to visit Ireland since 2015.

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Chinese premier will address opening ceremony at annual meeting of political and business leaders, then pay official visits to Switzerland and Ireland as Beijing kicks off ‘high-level exchange’ with Europe.

The death of the Irish musician, best known for her cover of ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’, prompted an outpouring of sympathy from fans and celebrities worldwide.

The suspect Riad Bouckaher – whose name was only released on Thursday – is a naturalised Irish citizen originally from Algeria, according to media reports.

The UK legislation proposes immunity from prosecution for British soldiers and security personnel from the time of ‘The Troubles’ in Northern Ireland.

Anti-immigrant demonstrators clashed with riot police, with authorities warning against ‘misinformation’ amid online rumours about the attacker’s nationality.

The gifted Irish singer-songwriter was known as much for her private struggles and provocative actions as for her fierce and expressive music.

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The US and Mexico have raised concerns over the legislation; Argentina, Australia, Chile, Cuba and New Zealand also expressed reservations.

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Sustaining both nations’ support for Ukraine in its war against Russia will feature heavily when the leaders meet at the White House on Thursday, according to Sunak’s spokesman.

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Shein’s new regional headquarters in Ireland covering the EMEA market comes after it was recently ensnared by US scrutiny of Chinese apps, including Pinduoduo sibling Temu.

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George Mitchell, 89, said that when the agreement to end the three-decade ‘Troubles’ was approved in 1998, ‘you were talking to the world … for peace and for the future’.

The US president is celebrating his Irish heritage on one of his longest foreign trips, as he gears up for an expected 2024 re-election campaign.

Biden stressed that American investment will continue to help fuel Northern Ireland’s economic growth and noted that the province’s economic output had doubled in the 25 years since the Good Friday peace deal was signed.

The landmark pact was signed 25 years ago on April 10, 1998. It created an invisible border between the island’s north and south, which has been sorely tested since Brexit.

Britain’s MI5 has raised the threat level two weeks before the anticipated visit by the president, a Catholic with Irish roots, for the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday peace accord.