The Clintons visited Northern Ireland in 1995 before travelling to Dublin. “The ostensible intention is to enable the president to meet a wider range of people in Northern Ireland” he wrote on November 28 1995. On the morning of November 30, before the reception in Belfast that evening, Mr Clinton met Mr Adams on the Falls Road in Belfast. Plans for the Clintons visit to Dublin, from December 1-2 1995, show that a US embassy official estimated that there was a “50/50” chance the visit would go ahead. Mr Clinton would go on to visit Cassidy’s Bar in Dublin for an hour during the 1995 trip.

Source: The Herald December 27, 2025 12:05 UTC