# department-of-foreign-affairs - Monday 17 January, 2022
# Foreign Affairs
# Foreign Affairs
The Minister for Foreign Affairs has ordered an investigation into a gathering of his officials in June 2020.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Wednesday 29 December, 2021
# Champagne Problems
# Champagne Problems
At least 20 officials and staff were pictured celebrating with champagne in an event at Iveagh House on 17 June 2020.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Monday 27 December, 2021
# Head Count
# Head Count
The busts were bought on behalf of the State’s diplomatic network.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Tuesday 14 December, 2021
# Ambassadors
# Ambassadors
Nine consuls general are also to be appointed in the UK, US, India, Canada and France.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Monday 6 December, 2021
# Passports
# Passports
The number of passports has never even reached 1 million in a year before.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Sunday 5 December, 2021
# Omicron
# Omicron
Morocco has banned all incoming flights for at least two weeks.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Thursday 2 December, 2021
# Grounded
# Grounded
Flights to and from Morocco have been suspended until at least 13 December over Omicron fears.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Wednesday 24 November, 2021
# Irish In Ethiopia
# Irish In Ethiopia
Ethiopian authorities indicated that the decision was due to Ireland’s position on the ongoing conflict and humanitarian crisis there
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Monday 6 September, 2021
# Document Drop
Coveney is due back before an Oireachtas committee tomorrow morning and has promised to answer questions on the documents. Texts released today add further detail to the timeline surrounding the planned appointment of Zappone to the UN envoy role. The document dump also includes a text from Zappone in the aftermath of the Merrion-gate controversy.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Friday 20 August, 2021
# Irish In Afghanistan
# Irish In Afghanistan
The Department of Foreign Affairs has said that a total of six Irish citizens have now left the country.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Tuesday 25 May, 2021
# Extinction Rebellion
# Extinction Rebellion
Extinction Rebellion Ireland members staged a protest outside the courthouse in support of Orla Murphy.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Monday 24 May, 2021
# Diplomatic Immunity
Niall O'Connor's report looks at the amount of times diplomats have escaped traffic fines by using their diplomatic immunity. The foreign embassy staff members were nabbed by gardaí across the country but granted immunity from prosecution. According to documents obtained by The Journal, the Department of Foreign Affairs were notified 17 times either by gardaí or by embassies.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Tuesday 18 May, 2021
# Passport Office
# Passport Office
The Galway woman is planning to leave the country next month, and has waited five months for her 10-year-old son’s passport to be renewed.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Friday 19 March, 2021
# Iveagh House
# Iveagh House
Graffiti was daubed on the front of Iveagh House, the headquarters of the Department of Foreign Affairs , earlier today.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Friday 19 February, 2021
# Passports
# Passports
The worker was eventually dismissed in December 2019 after the suspension.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Monday 28 December, 2020
# Department Of Foreign Affairs
# Department Of Foreign Affairs
The most popular baby girls’ names were Olivia, Mia and Saoirse, while Noah, Adam and Cillian topped the baby boys’ list.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Saturday 24 October, 2020
# Lagos
# Lagos
Amnesty International said that at least 12 peaceful protesters were killed in an incident involving the Nigerian army this week.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Friday 24 July, 2020
# Repatriation
# Repatriation
Irish government spent €890,000 on flights to repatriate citizens from Peru, India and Nigeria this year.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Wednesday 22 July, 2020
# Green List
# Green List
The much-anticipated ‘green list’ of countries was published last night.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Thursday 26 March, 2020
# Australia
# Australia
There are around 2,000 Irish citizens stranded in 83 countries around the world – most of these are in Australia.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Wednesday 25 March, 2020
# Stranded Abroad
# Stranded Abroad
The majority of stranded Irish citizens are in Australia or New Zealand, the Department of Foreign Affairs said.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Friday 20 March, 2020
# Coronavirus
# Coronavirus
The Irish government is gauging interest from the estimated 100 Irish people on who want to fly home this weekend.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Thursday 27 February, 2020
# Not Going Green
# Not Going Green
In some countries, St Patrick’s Day events have already been cancelled.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Tuesday 25 February, 2020
# Covid-19
# Covid-19
Here at home the National Public Health Emergency Team is meeting to monitor the situation and advance preparedness plans.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Monday 24 February, 2020
# Covid-19
# Covid-19
A fifth person has died from Covid-19 today in Italy.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Wednesday 19 February, 2020
# Covid-19
# Covid-19
Two Irish citizens who were on the cruise ship tested positive for coronavirus.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Tuesday 18 February, 2020
# Covid-19
# Covid-19
The couple are understood to have tested positive for Covid-19 a number of days ago.
# Covid-19
# Covid-19
The Diamond Princess ship docked in Japan has more than 450 confirmed cases of Covid-19.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Wednesday 29 January, 2020
# Outbreak
# Outbreak
Tánaiste Simon Coveney has said “there is no evidence to suggest that any Irish citizen has contracted the virus”.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Monday 27 January, 2020
# China
# China
The Department of Foreign Affairs has advised people to avoid the province of Hubei.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Saturday 4 January, 2020
# Irish Citizenship
# Irish Citizenship
“This is unacceptable. I don’t want to be a British citizen,” one person who wrote to the Taoiseach argued.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Wednesday 1 January, 2020
# Crisis Abroad
# Crisis Abroad
Some citizens required supports during Hong Kong protests and terrorists attacks in Kenya.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Sunday 29 December, 2019
# 1990
# 1990
The Department of Foreign Affairs warned it could cost £2 million to hire private facilities for meetings during Ireland’s EC presidency.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Monday 2 December, 2019
# Garda Questioning
# Garda Questioning
How long can she be questioned by gardaí, and is she likely to face charges?
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Thursday 28 November, 2019
# Repatriated
# Repatriated
Smith will undergo a security assessment when she returns to Ireland, it was reported earlier this month.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Saturday 5 October, 2019
# Passport Service
# Passport Service
The Passport Service has invested “substantial resources” in tackling fraud since 2017.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Saturday 6 July, 2019
# Farmleigh House
# Farmleigh House
It added that an offer of funding was made by the Department of Foreign Affairs in March 2019, “at which stage Dublin City Council had finalised the local Africa Day programme”.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Saturday 18 May, 2019
# Letters From America
# Letters From America
Fine Gael voted against the Bill, which passed second stage in the Dáil this year.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Monday 22 April, 2019
# Handle The Pressure
# Handle The Pressure
It comes as part of the passport reform programme and, despite the rise in complaints in recent years, Coveney is confident it’ll make a difference.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Saturday 6 April, 2019
# Anti-lgbt
# Anti-lgbt
The new laws include death by stoning for adultery and gay sex, and amputation of hands and feet for thieves.
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