Parliamentary delegation visits Ireland: photo gallery

Links between Scotland and Ireland were the focus for a delegation of MSPs on a visit to Ireland from 13 to 19 October 2006. MSPs Shiona Baird, Dennis Canavan, Maureen Macmillan, Jim Mather, Dave Petrie and Iain Smith accompanied the Presiding Officer George Reid MSP. More about the visit. View more pictures.

On Tuesday 17 October the Presiding Officer gave a keynote address on Scottish-Irish links and 21st century democracy at the Royal Irish Academy.		The delegation are pictured with the Ceann Comhairle Dr. Rory O'Hanlon TD during a visit to the Oireachtas.
Presiding Officer George Reid with the Ceann Comhairle Dr. Rory O'Hanlon TD.		The delegation at Trinity College library. The main chamber, the Long Room, houses around 200,000 of the library's oldest books.
The delegation with Anne-Marie Diffley, curator of Trinity College library, before going on to view the Book of Kells.		George Reid MSP with the Provost of Trinity College, Dr John Hegarty. The university's Centre for Irish-Scottish Studies was established in 1999.
Dennis Canavan MSP at the Royal Irish Academy.		Shiona Baird MSP and Maureen Macmillan MSP.

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