Vincent Pierce, wool merchant, Rathdrum, Co Wicklow.
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Following the events of the weekend, when a Ryanair flight was effectively hijacked and diverted to Minsk, Belarus suddenly came into the nation’s consciousness.
One of the snippets gleaned was that the Irish honorary consul to Belarus is a Wicklow wool merchant.
Vincent Pierce has served in that capacity since long before President Alexander Lukashenko developed a vice-like grip on the former Soviet state, and represents the people, “not the government” of Belarus.
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Indeed, I understand that Pierce, who has long-standing business interests in the country going back to the 1980s, flew home from Belarus on the day the flight from Greece to Lithuania was forced to land in Belarus.
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Following the events of the weekend, when a Ryanair flight was effectively hijacked and diverted to Minsk, Belarus suddenly came into the nation’s consciousness.
One of the snippets gleaned was that the Irish honorary consul to Belarus is a Wicklow wool merchant.
Vincent Pierce has served in that capacity since long before President Alexander Lukashenko developed a vice-like grip on the former Soviet state, and represents the people, “not the government” of Belarus.
Indeed, I understand that Pierce, who has long-standing business interests in the country going back to the 1980s, flew home from Belarus on the day the flight from Greece to Lithuania was forced to land in Belarus.
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