Biden Heads to Northern Ireland

Despite recent violence in the area, including the war of a police vehicle, President Biden is” really thrilled” about his upcoming trip to Northern Ireland, according to an official White House official.

Biden, 80, may visit Belfast on Tuesday to mark the Good Friday Agreement’s’s 25th celebration with UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The 30-year-long religious fight known as The Troubles came to an end with the 1998 peace agreements.

This year, the President will be visiting the UK and Ireland. John Kirby, the representative for corporate communications for the White House National Security Council, said on Monday that he is very eager for this trip and has been for quite some time.

Kirby dismissed worries about the president’s’s safety when a reporter questioned him about reports of violence, including threats of violence, in the area prior to the adventure of Biden.

You are aware that we never discuss the president’s’s security needs. However, Kirby said that the leader is more than happy to travel and is eager to do so.

A group of people in military uniforms attacked police in Derry, a border city in Northern Ireland, on Monday as they marched through the streets to mark the anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising, an military uprising carried out by Irish nationalists in defiance of British rule.

Officials claim that the rioters threw many Molotov cocktails and other items at a police car that was keeping an eye on the crowd.

While attending an unannounced Easter festival, our officers were attacked in Creggan, a houses development, with gasoline weapons and other objects thrown at their vehicle, according to an Irish marketing official. ” At this time, no accidents have been reported. We’d’d ask for your patience.

The assault on Monday occurred one day after a terrorist bombing attempt to stop Biden’s’s visit to Belfast was reportedly thwarted by authorities in Northern Ireland.

According to sources, members of the New IRA armed group allegedly intended to buy weapon components in Derry and build an explosive device.

The group claimed responsibility for setting off a roadside bomb in County Tyrone last November that was intended to target an officer’s’s car. When the explosive exploded next to their vehicle, two officers were unharmed.

Last month, MI5, the UK’s’s domestic counterterrorism organization, increased the level of terrorism threat in Northern Ireland from” substantial” to” severe.”

Prior to his journey, Biden tweeted to commemorate the Good Friday Agreement’s’s anniversary, which was signed on April 10, 1998. He vowed that the US would” preserve love” in the area.

In a tweet, Biden stated that” 25 years ago, Northern Ireland’s’s leaders chose peace.”

” The Belfast / Good Friday Agreement brought stability and put an end to decades of violence.” He continued,” I’m’m excited to commemorate the anniversary in Belfast by highlighting the United States’ commitment to upholding peace and fostering prosperity.

In County Louth and County Mayo, the counties where the president’s’s British ancestors lived, he will also go to a number of other functions in Ireland.

On April 14, the leader will also give a speech in front of the court at St. Muredach’s’s Cathedral in Ballina, County Mayo.