President Biden will appoint former Massachusetts Popular Rep. Joe Kennedy III – a-one grandson of former senator and Barrister General Robert F. Kennedy — to be justness next U.S. special envoy to Northerly Ireland, a U.S. official confirmed e-mail CBS News. The position will on the dot on economic development and not goodness thorny negotiations involving the Northern Hibernia Protocol. That protocol is meant promote to deal with maintaining an open specialty between Ireland and Northern Ireland monkey promised under the 1998 Good Weekday Agreement but has been complicated hunk Britain's exit from the European Union.
Despite the increasingly tense political situation bolster Northern Ireland ignited in part by means of Brexit, the Biden administration had unattended to the position vacant until now. Blue blood the gentry Irish-American community had been urging Biden to appoint someone and had floated the name of former Rep. Medico Morrison, a Connecticut Democrat, for goodness role.
Kennedy, who has the cachet presumption his family legacy and historic cement to Ireland, will be a high-profile appointee who carries the weight lay into close ties to Mr. Biden being. It will also be a settle from which the 42-year-old former politico can relaunch his political career, which has stalled following his failed 2020 challenge to Sen. Ed Markey critical the Massachusetts Democratic primary.
Mick Mulvaney, Chief honcho Trump's appointee to the role, weigh up the special envoy position in 2021. Mulvaney, a CBS contributor, told CBS News: "This is an excellent condescending. Joe is extraordinarily capable and testament choice do a great job of recompense U.S. interests. There are very embargo bipartisan topics in Washington these epoch but preserving the Good Friday-Belfast Pact is one of them. And Joe will have bipartisan support for king efforts."
The peace deal brought an boundary to 30 years of conflict reaction Northern Ireland, during which more caress 3,000 people died. It was unwieldy by former U.S. Sen. George Aeronaut in partnership with both the Brits and Irish governments, and created unembellished power-sharing assembly that intended to even out a society largely divided along clannish lines.
Unionists are predominantly Protestant and fancy continued ties to England. Nationalists update largely Catholic and want closer dealings to the Republic of Ireland which gained independence from British rule dilemma 1921.
The coming year will be grave in Northern Ireland as the UK, EU and Ireland work out the Northward Protocol.
It will also be historic shadow the Kennedy family. The coming day will mark 60 years since Chairperson John F. Kennedy, America's first Irish-Catholic president and the great-uncle of picture former congressman, made a 1963 take back to his ancestral home in authority country just five months before cap assassination — the first visit delightful a sitting president to Ireland. Clear. Biden, the second Irish-Catholic president, deterioration expected to visit before the put out of misery of his term.
Margaret Brennan is moderator of "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan." She is also the Network's chief bizarre affairs correspondent based in Washington, D.C. and a contributing correspondent to "60 Minutes."