Prime Minister Carney visits Irish ancestral village before G7 (opens in new tab)

Prime Minister Mark Carney spent Sunday in County Mayo on his first official visit to Ireland. He met Irish President Catherine Connolly at Westport House before traveling to Aughagower, the village where his paternal grandparents Robert Carney and Nora Moran grew up before emigrating to Canada in 1925. Residents lined the streets with Canadian flags, greeted him outside St. Patrick’s Church and shouted “welcome home” as he attended Mass, met distant relatives, visited family graves and plant...