Politics
From Paris to Brussels, Gaza is on the St Patrick’s Day agenda
Our Brussels correspondent followed Paschal Donohoe and Joe O’Brien on their excursions where Gaza, the euro and Olympics were on the agenda
In 1924, Jack B. Yeats and poet Oliver St. John Gogarty won the first medals for the newly independent Irish Free State in the Paris Olympics. A century later, the games are returning to City of Light, where Ireland’s cultural centre — appropriately situated on the Rue des Irlandais in the French capital’s Latin Quarter — is commemorating the wins with an exhibition.
The centre is emblematic of the soft power that Ireland wields in ...
