President Biden’s Irish visit includes visits to Knock airport, Sanctuary of Our Lady of Knock, Mayo-Roscommon Hospice, North Mayo Heritage and Genealogical Centre, and St. Muredach’s Cathedral in Ballina. His visit has sparked a surge in transatlantic holiday bookings.

President Biden made his third and final day of his Irish visit, starting with a visit to the Sanctuary of our Lady of Knock for private prayer. He then visited the Mayo-Roscommon Hospice in Castlebar to honour the memory of his son Beau, who died of brain cancer in 2015, and stopped at the North Mayo Heritage and Genealogical Centre in Crossmolina. He delivered a speech outside St Muredach’s Cathedral in Ballina, which included waxing lyrical about Irish poets and Irishness, and also praised the Irish peace process. His visit has sparked a surge in transatlantic holiday bookings, with reservations up 93% so far in 2023 compared to last year. Tánaiste Micheál Martin spoke on RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland about the peace process and how it is seen as one of the most successful interventions from an American foreign policy perspective in terms of bringing peace to the island of Ireland.