Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney has outlined Ireland's case for membership of the UN Security Council in New York. Minister Coveney said Ireland had many qualities that make the country a suitable candidate for the Security Council. But we listen too - to all sides - and work to build collective solution to our global challenges. He opened his speech by saying: "Geographically, Ireland may be a small island on the Western edge of Europe. He also referred to the Troubles in saying: "Ireland's experience of prolonged, intractable conflict but also a successful peace settlement...shows that even decades-long conflicts can have a turning point."

Source: Evening echo September 29, 2018 08:03 UTC