Local Minister Malcolm Noonan is heading abroad for St Patrick’s Day.
The Government has announced the largest ever programme of St Patrick’s Day trips abroad for Ministers.
The local Green TD will be visiting Austria, Slovakia, Czechia & Romania to mark ‘100 years of Ireland in the world’.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar will fly to Washington DC to meet the US President Joe Biden with Tánaiste Micheál Martin visiting New York and Boston.
Ministers and officials are set to visit 74 cities in 44 countries this year.
However, there has been criticism of the trips with People Before Profit calling them junkets for Ministers.