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The visit will take place in Dublin and Cork from 12 to 14 June 2019.
- Wednesday 12 June
The state visit will begin in Dublin, where President Higgins and his wife, Sabina Higgins, will receive the King and Queen at Áras an Uachtaráin, the president’s official residence. A welcome ceremony will be followed by a short meeting, after which the King and Queen, in accordance with Irish tradition, will plant a tree in the garden and ring the Peace Bell.
The King and Queen will next lay a wreath in Dublin’s Garden of Remembrance, commemorating the men and women who died in the struggle for Irish independence. In the afternoon, a meeting will take place at the national parliament building, Leinster House, with the presidents of the upper and lower houses of Ireland’s parliament (the Seanad and the Dáil).
The rest of the afternoon will be devoted to IT and high-tech. The King and Queen will visit Dogpatch Labs, a startup hub in the heart of Dublin’s Silicon Docks. The area owes its nickname, a reference to Silicon Valley, to the concentration of IT and tech startups and multinationals that have their European head offices there. The Netherlands and Ireland are on the same page when it comes to technological innovation and startups, and this will be the subject of the royal couple’s meeting with beginning entrepreneurs from both countries. The visit to Dogpatch Labs will also address the challenge of attracting high-tech talent, the importance of staff diversity and of investing in young people’s coding knowledge and skills. Technological innovations in urban development and retail will also be discussed.
The first day of the state visit will conclude with a state banquet at the presidential residence, where both heads of state will deliver a speech.
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