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17/05/2011
Queen Arrives At Áras an Uachtaráin
The Queen has arrived in Dublin where a guard of honour and a band are greeting the royal couple at Áras an Uachtaráin.
The British national anthem was being played as President Mary McAleese, along with her husband Dr Martin McAleese, welcomed the visitors as her motorcade arrived from the airport, where, after some quick handshakes, the motorcade of State cars and about 30 Irish Army outriders accompanied the cavalcade en route to the official residence of President of Ireland, Mary McAleese.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny is also at the Áras for the arrival, where, at the gates, the Irish Tricolour and Union flag fly side by side.
The historic moment sees the President in pink and the Queen in green to honour the Emerald Isle.
A guard of honour and red carpet greeted the Queen (pictured here in Belfast last year by Brian McCalden) and Duke of Edinburgh when they flew into Baldonnel military airbase, outside Dublin, for their four-day visit.
The trip comes amid the Republic's biggest ever security operation especially so after the Irish army made safe a pipe bomb found on a passenger bus to Dublin on Monday.
A bomb threat to London on Sunday was investigated earlier.
The historic visit is on foot of an invitation from Ardoyne-born President Mary McAleese's invitation for the Queen to come to the Republic.
She will formally welcome her at the official home in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
The Irish President told state broadcaster RTE it was "an extraordinary moment in Irish history - a phenomenal sign and signal of the success of the peace process and absolutely the right moment for us to welcome onto Irish soil Her Majesty the Queen".
Mrs McAleese said the two countries were "forging a new future - a future very, very different from the past, on very different terms from the past - and I think the visit will send the message that we are, both jurisdictions, determined to make the future a much, much better place".
(BMcC/GK)
The British national anthem was being played as President Mary McAleese, along with her husband Dr Martin McAleese, welcomed the visitors as her motorcade arrived from the airport, where, after some quick handshakes, the motorcade of State cars and about 30 Irish Army outriders accompanied the cavalcade en route to the official residence of President of Ireland, Mary McAleese.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny is also at the Áras for the arrival, where, at the gates, the Irish Tricolour and Union flag fly side by side.
The historic moment sees the President in pink and the Queen in green to honour the Emerald Isle.
A guard of honour and red carpet greeted the Queen (pictured here in Belfast last year by Brian McCalden) and Duke of Edinburgh when they flew into Baldonnel military airbase, outside Dublin, for their four-day visit.
The trip comes amid the Republic's biggest ever security operation especially so after the Irish army made safe a pipe bomb found on a passenger bus to Dublin on Monday.
A bomb threat to London on Sunday was investigated earlier.
The historic visit is on foot of an invitation from Ardoyne-born President Mary McAleese's invitation for the Queen to come to the Republic.
She will formally welcome her at the official home in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
The Irish President told state broadcaster RTE it was "an extraordinary moment in Irish history - a phenomenal sign and signal of the success of the peace process and absolutely the right moment for us to welcome onto Irish soil Her Majesty the Queen".
Mrs McAleese said the two countries were "forging a new future - a future very, very different from the past, on very different terms from the past - and I think the visit will send the message that we are, both jurisdictions, determined to make the future a much, much better place".
(BMcC/GK)
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