{"id":239163,"date":"2016-01-12T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=45a1c598063631460684fc4ebf7907b6"},"modified":"2016-01-12T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T23:00:00","slug":"irish-prime-minister-visits-estec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=239163","title":{"rendered":"Irish prime minister visits ESTEC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nEnda Kenny, Ireland\u2019s Taoiseach prime minister and His Excellency John Neary, Ireland\u2019s Ambassador to the Netherlands, were welcomed to ESA\u2019s ESTEC technical centre in Noordwijk by ESA Director General Jan Woerner and ESTEC Director Franco Ongaro on 6 January 2016.\n<\/p>\n

\nThose accompanying the Taoiseach and Ambassador Neary on the Wednesday afternoon visit included the Head of Ireland\u2019s ESA Delegation Michael Davitt, the Head of ESA\u2019s Dutch Delegation Fritz van Meijenfeldt and the CEO of Enterprise Ireland Julie Sinnamon.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe visit included the signing of a deal to bring an ESA Business Incubation Centre and presentations by leading Irish space companies, as well as an opportunity to meet Irish staff and contractors.\n<\/p>\n

\nHeard speaking on the video are the ESA Director General, Niels Eldering of ESA\u2019s Technology Transfer Programme and the Taoiseach himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\nEnda Kenny, Ireland’s Taoiseach prime minister and His Excellency John Neary, Ireland’s Ambassador to the Netherlands, were welcomed to ESA’s ESTEC technical centre in Noordwijk by ESA Director General Jan Woerner and ESTEC Director Franco Ongaro on 6 January 2016.\n<\/p>\n

\nThose accompanying the Taoiseach and Ambassador Neary on the Wednesday afternoon visit included the Head of Ireland’s ESA Delegation Michael Davitt, the Head of ESA’s Dutch Delegation Fritz van Meijenfeldt and the CEO of Enterprise Ireland Julie Sinnamon.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe visit included the signing of a deal to bring an ESA Business Incubation Centre and presentations by leading Irish space companies, as well as an opportunity to meet Irish staff and contractors.\n<\/p>\n

\nHeard speaking on the video are the ESA Director General, Niels Eldering of ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme and the Taoiseach himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239164,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239163\/revisions\/239164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}