Tag: Enda Kenny

• Sunday, February 26th 2017 - 14:25 UTC

  EU pledges to keep Ireland and Ulster border “as open as possible”

  

  The EU’s negotiators will work to keep the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland “as open as possible” after Brexit, the President of the bloc, Jean-Claude Juncker, said after meeting Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny.

• Friday, January 22nd 2016 - 04:15 UTC

  US announced support for Argentina at multilateral development banks

  

  The United States is ending its policy of opposing most lending to Argentina from multilateral development banks, the US Treasury Department announced. US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew informed Argentine Finance Minister Alfonso Prat-Gay of the move on Thursday when the two met in Davos, Switzerland, the department said in a statement.

• Friday, June 12th 2015 - 04:55 UTC

  “Isolated” mad cow case in Ireland; OIE had recently returned the “controlled risk status”

  

  Irish authorities have identified a suspected case of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or “mad cow disease”, on a dairy farm in County Louth, the first such case to be discovered in the country since 2013. The Irish Department of Agriculture said on Thursday the five-year-old diseased cow was discovered as part of ongoing inspections of animals that die on farms.

• Tuesday, May 27th 2014 - 09:41 UTC

  Ireland's Labor to renew leadership after Sunday's shock; coalition imperiled

  

  Irish deputy prime minister Eamon Gilmore said on Monday he will quit as leader of the junior government Labor party, in a move that could destabilize the coalition and its austerity program following a major election setback.

• Tuesday, December 17th 2013 - 02:53 UTC

  Ireland exits bailout program but difficulties remain; Portugal next in the queue

  

  Ireland's prime minister has marked the end of the country's bailout program with a speech to the nation. In a televised address, Enda Kenny said Ireland's “good name and our credibility” had been restored. Meanwhile Portugal could be the next in the list after a review of the economy was advanced six months.

• Wednesday, March 2nd 2011 - 17:44 UTC

  New Irish government gauges ‘potential damage’ of Mercosur/EU trade talks

  

  Mercosur negotiations and Ireland’s share of the EU agriculture spending are seen as the main challenging demands for the new Agriculture minister of the Fine Gael-Labour coalition government in Dublin.