Behind a heavy iron door in a modern office block in Bogota is the entrance to the Irish embassy in Colombia. Ireland’s ambassador Fiona Nic Dhonnacha answers the door herself. It is late January and the Embassy is still operating on a skeleton in-office staff due to Covid-19 restrictions. Nic Dhonnacha has only been Ambassador to Colombia since last October after previously serving as Deputy Consul General to Hong Kong, and on secondment to the national security analysis centre in the Department of An Taoiseach. Nic Dhonnacha has immersed herself in learning Spanish since taking the job having mastered Mandarin…

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