His Highness and PrimeMinisterCarney also reviewed a number of regional and international issues of mutual interest, particularly the latest developments in the Middle East.
As he walked the tiny village near Westport, the Canadian prime minister was surrounded by evidence that, long before his grandparents emigrated from it a century ago, this had once been an important place.
Canadian prime minister Mark Carney will travel to the home county of his Irish grandparents on Sunday ... It is the first bilateral visit to Ireland by a Canadian prime minister in almost 10 years, and the first ever official visit to Co Mayo.
Canadian prime minister Mark Carney has arrived in the home county of his Irish grandparents ... It is the first bilateral visit to Ireland by a Canadian prime minister in almost 10 years, and the first ever official visit to Co Mayo.
Canadian prime minister Mark Carney’s grandfather Robert Carney was one of the first Garda recruits in the Free State and took part in a heroic stand in which he and three others held off a mob of 50 men who tried to storm a Garda station.