Simon Coveney is being tipped to be sent.
Ministers will decide today whether or not to send a Government representative to a controversial service in Northern Ireland.
The service has been titled as 'marking the centenaries of the partition of Ireland and the foundation of Northern Ireland'.
President Michael D Higgins declined an invitation to the event, saying the title of it was political.
According to an Irish Thinks/Irish Mail on Sunday poll 81% of respondents supported the decision by President Higgins not to go.
The President has no obligation to attend an event which celebrates the partitioning of his nation and to refuse to glorify the discrimination and injustice which has occurred is not scandalous it’s admirable, maith thú @PresidentIRL Uachtarán na hEireann, President of Ireland ?? pic.twitter.com/7BY7R38Nvn
— Darragh Sinnott ?? ?? (@sinnott_darragh) September 17, 2021
Source: Twitter (@sinnott_darragh)
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is due to attend the event in Armagh.
The Irish Government have also been invited to send a representative.
Ministers will consider whether or not to do so at a meeting this evening.
If they do, it's believed that Simon Coveney would be sent.
