Overview
- Former president Joe Biden attended Trinity College Dublin to support his son Hunter, who received the College Historical Society’s Gold Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Public Discourse.
- A pro-Palestinian demonstration formed outside the ceremony and, as the Bidens left, some people moved forward and threw objects including white liquid believed to be milk toward the entourage.
- Irish police said three men were arrested in connection with the public-order incident, with one man in his 50s charged and two released without charge, while some local reports initially described two arrests.
- Video and witnesses show Gardaí using force during detentions and a student newspaper editor said pepper spray was deployed, claims that have fueled scrutiny of police tactics on campus.
- The visit came as Biden is scaling back public promotion of his memoir while receiving treatment for aggressive prostate cancer and followed a private meeting between the Biden family and Taoiseach Micheál Martin.