Editing Mary McAleese (section)

==China==
McAleese strongly promoted closer ties between Ireland and the [[People's Republic of China]],<ref>{{Cite news|url = https://www.irishtimes.com/news/mcaleese-hails-closeness-of-china-and-ireland-1.678847|title = McAleese hails closeness of China and Ireland| newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] |date = 5 March 2020|access-date = 21 September 2022}}</ref> meeting frequently with officials from that country's ruling [[Chinese Communist Party]], including [[Xi Jinping]] and former President [[Hu Jintao]].<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-30116592.html#!|title = McAleese meets Chinese president today|date = 9 October 2003|access-date = 21 September 2022}}</ref>  As President of Trinity College, McAleese refused to allow the board to bestow an honorary degree upon the [[Dalai Lama]], noting the Chinese student presence at the university and stating that "honouring the Tibetan monk would undoubtedly cause "serious" problems and consequences with the Chinese ambassador, and added that the Chinese would interpret the award as looking for trouble, as China regarded him as a religious-political leader.".<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/trinity-college-pulled-dalai-lama-honour-after-mary-mcaleese-raised-china-fears-41997509.html|title = Trinity College pulled Dalai Lama honour after Mary McAleese raised China fears|date = 18 September 2012|access-date = 21 September 2022}}</ref> According to the ''[[Sunday Independent (Ireland)|Sunday Independent]]'', Chinese universities "provided the fourth highest amount of non-EU collaborations with Trinity over the previous 10 years, with 581 co-publications."