President of Greece Prokopios Pavlopoulos and Vlassia Pavlopoulou with President Michael D Higgins and Sabina Higgins at Áras an Uachtaráin
Yesterday
Minister of State Finian McGrath represented the Government during the State visit of the President of Greece to Áras an Uachtaráin as all senior Ministers were unavailable.
Jack Power, in The Irish Times, reports:
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar was due to meet Mr Pavlopoulos at Government Buildings on Thursday afternoon, but the meeting was cancelled earlier that morning, with Mr Varadkar attending events on the Fine Gael campaign trail instead.
…Mr McGrath is the only TD who sits at Cabinet who is not standing in the upcoming general election.
One senior Áras source said there was a sense of disappointment that the Government had not sent a senior Minister to attend the welcome ceremony.
Pics: Irish Foreign Ministry