revolutionary fashion designer has died. welcome to bbc news. president biden is finishes address to the parliament in ireland. parliament in ireland. is that political violence should never be allowed to take hold again. mr biden is on a tour of the republic of ireland haven t visited northern ireland on wednesday to mark the 25th anniversary of the good friday peace agreement. mr biden entered the chamber, he was met with rapturous applause in open his speech by saying, when he is in ireland he feels he is at home. he said his country was shaped by ireland, highlighting the shared values between the two nations before praising ireland s role in internationalforeign before praising ireland s role in international foreign policy. president kennedy said 60 years ago and i quote, ireland pursues an end of pendant course in foreign policy but it is not neutral between liberty and tyranny and it never will be. thank you for that. the us president then will be. thank you for th
links were to him. also the wider context of americans with irish ancestry, he said the americans with irish ancestry have been the backbone of building america s civilisation. he talked about the way his own great grandfather i got on a boat, set sail for america and that barack 0bama is great grandfather it turns out had set sail on a very similar crossing a few weeks before. and it wasn t a coincidence that the two grandsons to want to become us presidents. you might ve thought that was a bit of irish malarkey. moving on from the symbolism of his own irish history, he did cover a lot of political ground for talked about ukraine and thanked ireland for taking in 80,000 ukrainian refugees, commended ireland very much for that saying they were in example to other countries. he thanked ireland for standing alongside the us and standing alongside the us and standing up to russian oppression, standing up to russian oppression, standing against the russian invasion of ukraine. he got onto