Premier traces his heritage back to Aughagower and will spend much of the day in Westport

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Taoiseach welcomes opportunity to ‘strengthen the bilateral relationship between Ireland and Canada’

DUBLIN - Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Ireland today to drum up business and investment with European peers and visit his ancestors' home on the Emerald Isle.

Il s’agissait de la première visite bilatérale d’un premier ministre canadien en Irlande depuis près d’une décennie.

Premier traces his heritage back to Aughagower and will spend much of the day in Westport

Premier traces his heritage back to Aughagower and will spend much of the day in Westport

AGHAGOWER - Prime Minister Mark Carney is continuing his Irish pilgrimage today, visiting his family's ancestral home in County Mayo, on the west coast of Ireland.

Canadian leader’s first official visit to Ireland features Catholic Mass with his newfound clan in the Mayo village his grandparents left a century ago.

Carney visited County Mayo in Ireland ahead of the G7 meeting in France

With its small stone bridges and babbling stream, the Co Mayo village made for a picture-postcard backdrop for a returning Irish emigrant

AUGHAGOWER: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Sunday met distant cousins in his grandparents’ home village in...