let s turn to ireland where us presidentjoe biden has been meeting with leading politicians and is now on his way to address a joint sitting of the irish parliament it s been an extremely busy day for the president. he set off to parliament from farmleigh house in dublin after meeting with the irish prime minister leo varadkar. while in the grounds of farmleigh, he watched a gaelic sport demonstration by local children. inside, the taoiseach praised american leadership since the russian invasion of ukraine last year. mr biden praised irish values and set out plans for a closer relationship between the us and ireland. there really is an opportunity to make serious progress. notjust because of the accords we have signed, 25 years ago, but in terms of the way you lead ireland and ireland is moving in a way that is taking its place in the world and i think it feels so good to be able to have this merging and stronger relation between the united states and ireland. this mornin
while not very ideologically far apart both would say they are both probably of the political centre. they grew out of factions and from the irish civil war. that happened a century ago was basically around the circumstances, the conditions of ireland s independence of the rivalry between the parties is very, very intense indeed. but not for the first time they are governing ireland together. the current taoiseach, leo varadkar succeeded enda kenny, there on the left is the leader and his deputy in the government micheal martin, the foreign minister, is the current minister of fianna fail in under this coalition agreement they agree to rotate the top position of taoiseach and micheal martin was taoiseach and micheal martin was taoiseach and micheal martin was taoiseach and handed over voluntarily in december two enda kenny. so that was a sign of change