Samhain shona cois Duna. A happy Halloween by the Danube. With Budapest’s best braic, courtesy of our friends at Arán. And Hungary’s most terrifying turnips, courtesy of my wife & girls.

Gratulálok to Hubi Kos, a Magyar missile in the pool and son of a very proud Corkman.

Ireland condemns in the strongest terms Russia’s sustained air attacks on Ukraine’s civilian population. Ireland calls on Russia to halt these criminal attacks immediately.

From the west of Ireland to the heart of Hungary, a thrill to see the elite engineering & innovation driving McHale’s manufacturing base in Szolnok. 300 outstanding Magyar mechanics & engineers delivering some of the world’s best agricultural equipment for a great Galway firm.

Samhain Shona. Happy Halloween from Ireland, where it all began.

Milyen szép Magyarország!

Pleasure to be back in Pécs, joining many fine scholars & students at an excellent Irish studies symposium & opening “Blazing a Trail”, an EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum exhibition on remarkable women across our diaspora. Köszi to the the equally remarkable Zsuzsa Csikai for the invitation!

Pécs perfect. A toe-tapping session, courtesy of some outstanding Hungarian & Austrian Gaels, rounding off a brilliant Irish day in south west Hungary’s cultural capital.

Jó munkát! Gratulálok Robbie Keane. És hajrá Ferencvárosi TC!

Go raibh míle maith agat Uachtarán na hÉireann, #MichaelDHiggins 🇮🇪❤️

President Michael D. Higgins and his wife Sabina have departed from Áras an Uachtaráin ahead of the conclusion of his term of office as the ninth President of Ireland at midnight tonight. As the President and Sabina left, members of the Sanctuary Runners applauded them

Gratulálok David Szalay! What a marvellous month for Hungarian literature, with the The Nobel Prize for Laszlo Krasznahorkai followed by this most deserved of The Booker Prizes. A Magyar moment!

Catherine Connolly was today inaugurated as the tenth President of Ireland at a ceremony in Dublin Castle. You can read the President’s inaugural address at president.ie/en/media-libra…

On November 11, KCSS held a roundtable in Ferizaj on “The Role of Municipalities in Promoting Rule of Law and EU Values in Kosovo.” 🇪🇺🇽🇰🇮🇪 The event gathered municipal officials, civil society representatives, and youth activists to discuss how local institutions can strengthen

Thanks to the President of Kosovo Vjosa Osmani for her well wishes to our new President of Ireland Catherine Connolly. I am sure that the friendship 🇮🇪 & 🇽🇰 enjoy can only deepen in the years ahead.

Na huachtaráin. Bródúil as ár dtír. Inniú agus i gcónaí.