Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Bloomsday is celebrated every 16th June by book lovers around the world. Named after Leopold Bloom, the central character in James Joyce's path-breaking novel 'Ulysses', it marks Thursday 16th June 1904, the date on which the novel follows the life and thoughts of Bloom, and a host of other characters, as he makes his way around his native city of Dublin, the capital of Ireland.

Romania and Ireland support the project to strengthen the European design, focusing on a European Union that is closer to its citizens, Romania's Minister-delegate for European Affairs Victor Negrescu said at a meeting in Dublin on Wednesday with Helen McEntee, state minister for European affairs with Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Australian Ambassador to Turkey James Larsen was only meters away when a suicide car bomb exploded in the heart of the capital Ankara on March 13, and managed to escape the blast unscathed.

Larsen was with his 12-year-old daughter when the bomb exploded, driving her home from a horse riding lesson, Embassy officials told the Hürriyet Daily News on March 14.