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President Joe Biden will host Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at the White House Friday, resuming a longstanding St. Patrick’s Day tradition, the White House announced Tuesday.
Biden and Varadkar will participate in a bilateral meeting and a St. Patrick’s Day celebration, and Varadkar and his partner Matthew Barrett will also attend the annual breakfast at the Naval Observatory with Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff.
Last year, then-Taoiseach Micheál Martin tested positive for Covid-19 during a visit to Washington ahead of a planned meeting with Biden, which was canceled. And in 2021, Biden and Martin celebrated virtually amid the pandemic. Varadkar, who served as Taoiseach, or prime minister, from 2017 to 2020, returned to the role in December.
The leaders, National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications John Kirby told…
