Tánaiste Simon Harris’s St Patrick’s Day program in New York today will include a number of commercial, governmental, and community events, reports RTE.
The Tánaiste will meet with representatives of Cubbie, an Irish firm growing in the US that offers a ground-breaking immersive multi-sensory venue, at Neumann University on the first full day of his visit to one of the most significant and famous Irish-American cities.
The Tánaiste will later meet with Volumetric Building Companies, an IDA customer that established a worldwide centre of excellence in Monaghan last year and is a world leader in modular housing solutions, reports RTE.
Following several meetings, he will lay a wreath at the National Memorial to the Great Hunger.
He will also address more than 400 people this evening at the Gala of the Friendly Sons and Daughters of St Patrick, a social and philanthropic group for Irish Americans that was established in 1771 and supports Irish education and culture, reports RTE.
He met with many business and political figures, including US congressmen Brendan Boyle and Mary Gay Scanlon, for a St. Patrick’s Day business networking reception for the Irish American Business Chamber and Network last night after landing in Philadelphia.
The Tánaiste will highlight the strong cultural, diplomatic, political, and economic ties between Ireland and America during his visit. This includes the two-way trade relationship that has resulted in over 770 Irish businesses creating over 200,000 jobs in the US, including in every state, reports RTE.
Ireland is now the US’s sixth-largest foreign direct investment.
This investment, which supported hundreds of thousands of American employment and involved large purchases of American products and services, was valued at $351 billion in 2023, reports RTE.
Top Gun Simon Harris has done all he can to try and stay relevant today as the Notorious Conor McGregor stole his thunder on St Patrick’s Day.
McGregor spoke at the White House and said that Ireland has a drastic immigration crisis and that the government couldn’t care less about what the people of Ireland have to say or think about the situation.
Meanwhile, “Maverick” Simon Harris is also in America and claims that McGregor doesn’t speak for the Irish people and that President Donald Trump can invite whoever he likes to the White House.
But the real question is, who do you think has the welfare of the indigenous Irish at heart today? McGregor or Harris?
Top Gun Simon Harris, desperate to stay relevant, says Conor McGregor doesn’t speak for the people of Ireland even though he’s meeting Trump todaypic.twitter.com/CKpelMbkFA
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Conor McGregor is telling it like it is in the White House about Ireland’s immigration racket 🇮🇪
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