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Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, after attending the European Political Community summit in Ireland, visited the family she stayed with as a child under a health programme for children from areas affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The politician posted a video of the reunion on social media platform X.
Tsikhanouskaya travelled to the town of Roscrea in County Tipperary, where she met Henry and Marian Dean, who hosted her around 30 years ago.
“After the European Political Community summit, I went back to my beloved Roscrea, County Tipperary, to see my Irish family, the Deans. I first came here some 30 years ago as a Chornobyl kid. Henry and Marian welcomed me as one of their own. Those summers shaped who I am and my European identity,” she wrote.
Tsikhanouskaya first travelled to Ireland in 1996, when she was 14. She took part in a programme to improve the health of children from Belarus, organised in the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. She later said that the trip was her first introduction to the West.
Video: x.com/Tsihanouskaya