UCC-Defence Forces Lecture Series on ‘The link between Defence and Foreign Policy - Ireland’s role on the Security Council’ by Simon Coveney T.D., Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defence.

19 Jan 2022

The next lecture in the UCC-Defence Forces Lecture Series ‘The link between Defence and Foreign Policy - Ireland’s role on the Security Council’ by Simon Coveney T.D., Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defence.

The lecture will take place on-line on Tuesday the 8th of February 2022 at 6.00-7.30pm (Irish/UK time) via this link (- no registration or log-in is required, but we kindly request that you go to the link shortly before the start time of 6pm). The lecture will also be recorded so that people may view it later if they wish.

Simon Coveney T.D. is the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Defence. He is also the Deputy Leader of Fine Gael and served as Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade with responsibility for Brexit from November 2017 to June 2020.  He has served as Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (2016-2017), Minister for Defence (2014-2016) and Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2011-2016). First, elected to the Dáil (Irish Parliament) in 1998, he was elected to the European Parliament in 2004 where he was a member of the EPP-ED group. He was a member of the EP Foreign Affairs Committee and the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee and a substitute member on the Fisheries Committee. Mr. Coveney was the author of the European Parliament's Annual Report on Human Rights in the World for the year 2004 and again for 2006.  He was a member of Cork County Council and the Southern Health Board from 1999 to 2003. Mr. Coveney holds a B.Sc. in Agriculture and Land Management from The Royal Agriculture College, Gloucestershire. He was also educated at Clongowes Wood College, County Kildare, University College Cork and Gurteen Agricultural College, County Tipperary. In 1997/8 he led the "Sail Chernobyl Project" which involved sailing 30,000 miles around the world for charity.

The UCC-Defence Forces Lecture Series aims to contribute to informed public debate on contemporary global security challenges, how such problems may impact on Ireland and how Ireland can contribute to addressing regional and global security threats. The lecture series is jointly organised by the Defence Forces and UCC’s Colleges of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences and Business and Law.

Lecture details:

• ‘The link between Defence and Foreign Policy - Ireland’s role on the Security Council’
• Simon Coveney T.D., Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defence
• Tuesday 8^th February 6.00-7.30pm (Irish/UK time)
• The lecture will be on-line (- log-in details will be available shortly)
• The lecture will also be available afterwards so that people may view it later if they wish. The recording can be viewed here https://media.heanet.ie/page/4e3f4880499047599b464bb5b44a92aa.

For more on this story contact:

Prof. Andrew Cottey

EU Jean Monnet Chair in European Political Integration

Department of Government and Politics

University College Cork