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  'Looking forward to...': PM Modi congratulates Simon Harris on becoming Ireland's youngest premier

  World | April 10, 2024 15:58 IST

  PM Modi, while congratulating Harris, highlighted the historic ties between India and Ireland that are based on shared belief in democratic values. Harris became the youngest PM on Tuesday weeks after the surprise resignation of openly gay and Indian-origin PM Leo Varadkar.

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  Ireland: Simon Harris becomes youngest PM after openly gay, Indian-origin Leo Varadkar quits

  World | April 09, 2024 21:10 IST

  Varadkar was previously Ireland's youngest Prime Minister at 38 and played a leading role in legalising same-sex marriage and repealing a ban on abortion. Harris, the higher education minister under Varadkar, was the only candidate to replace the latter as leader of the Fine Gael party.

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  Ireland openly gay and Indian-origin PM says he will quit due to 'both personal, political' reasons'

  World | March 20, 2024 18:48 IST

  Varadkar was the country’s youngest-ever leader when first elected, as well as Ireland’s first openly gay prime minister. Varadkar, whose mother is Irish and father is Indian, was also Ireland’s first biracial taoiseach.

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  Ireland PM condemns violent protests after 34 arrested following knife attack in Dublin

  World | November 24, 2023 18:34 IST

  The anti-immigration protesters chanting slogans like 'Ireland for the Irish' set buses and trams on fire, while looting shops and throwing bottles and rocks at the police. More than 400 police officers were deployed to control the situation as warnings against misinformation were issued.

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  'Sort of weird feeling but...': Trump after greeting Irish PM with 'namaste' | Watch

  World | March 13, 2020 11:42 IST

  US President Donald Trump greeted Irish PM with a 'namaste' instead of shaking hands amid coronavirus fears and rising cases of the deadly disease across the world.

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  Indian origin Irish PM Leo Varadkar's party pushed to 3rd place in general election

  World | February 10, 2020 19:15 IST

  Ireland's Indian-origin Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has suffered a huge setback in the general election as his liberal-conservative Fine Gael party took a battering in the face of an unprecedented surge in the fortunes of the nationalist party Sinn Fein.

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  Will not be rushed by pressures: Irish PM on abortion rights

  World | November 17, 2012 12:21 IST

  London, Nov 17: With an Indian dentist's tragic death igniting protests over right to abortion in Ireland, Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny has said he is awaiting a report by an expert group on the