{"id":35135,"date":"2013-11-18T10:55:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T10:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=06e7c2c257647ca604cf81f9f0cc3bdc"},"modified":"2013-11-18T10:55:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T10:55:07","slug":"news-story-secretary-of-state-welcomes-irish-presidents-upcoming-visit-to-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=35135","title":{"rendered":"News story: Secretary of State welcomes Irish President&#8217;s upcoming visit to UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Queen formally invited the President to stay at Windsor Castle next April, the first time an Irish head of state has been formally invited to the UK by a British sovereign.<\/p>\n<p>President Higgins has met members of the Royal Family previously, but this will be his first official state visit to the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the President\u2019s acceptance of the invitiation, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Theresa Villiers said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I\u2019m delighted that President Higgins has accepted the Queen\u2019s invitation to visit the UK next April.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Like Her Majesty\u2019s visit to Ireland in 2011, President Higgins\u2019 trip will be a significant and historic occasion for both the UK and Ireland, which will further strengthen the political, economic and cultural links between our 2 countries.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">It will also provide some great opportunities to celebrate the friendly and positive relationship that the UK and Ireland now enjoy, a relationship which is closer than it has ever been.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Michael D Higgins has accepted the Queen&#8217;s invitation to visit to the UK for 3 days next spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}