The Tánaiste meeting Meryl Streep and other things you may have missed at the UN General Assembly

US President Joe Biden addressed the gathering which was dominated by events in Gaza and Ukraine

Micheál Martin (second from right) meets actor Meryl Streep (centre) at the UN conference in New York on ‘Ways to Include Women In the Future of Afghanistan’.

You will have noticed this week that the President, Taoiseach and Tánaiste were all in New York.

It was there that Michael D Higgins accused the Israeli embassy of improperly spreading a letter he wrote to the new Iranian President and where the subsequent incredibly tense press briefing with the President took place among other briefings given by the Taoiseach, Tánaiste and Transport Minister Eamon Ryan.