Editing Mary Robinson (section)

=== International relations ===
[[File:President Bill Clinton arrives at Dublin and proceeds on the tarmac with President Mary Robinson and Prime Minister John Bruton.jpg|thumb|right|Robinson greets U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]] on a visit to [[Dublin]], 1995]]

In 1992, Robinson travelled to Somalia, which at the time was struck by [[1992 famine in Somalia|famine]]. She then travelled to the UN to make a report of her findings.{{Sfn|Morgan|1999|p=266}} The UN ultimately failed in its effort to relieve the famine, and the United States eventually intervened, ending the famine by March 1993.

In the summer of 1993, Robinson met and shook hands with both [[Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth II]] and [[Gerry Adams]] (the [[president of Sinn Féin]]), meetings which occurred on two separate occasions. On 27 May,{{Sfn|Morgan|1999|p=266}} Robinson became the first serving Irish president to visit the United Kingdom and meet [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]] at [[Buckingham Palace]].<ref name="irtim77" /> She later welcomed visits by senior members of the British royal family, most notably [[Charles III of the United Kingdom|Charles, Prince of Wales]], to her official residence, [[Áras an Uachtaráin]].{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}} In June, a few weeks after her trip to London, Robinson controversially met and shook hands with Gerry Adams in [[Belfast]].{{Sfn|Horgan|1997|p=176}} Dick Spring, now the [[Tánaiste]] and [[Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade|Minister for Foreign Affairs]], had advised her not to meet Adams,{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}} whose party was linked with the [[Provisional IRA]]. His disapproval was well-circulated by Irish media.{{Sfn|Morgan|1999|p=267}} However, the Government refused to formally advise her not to meet with him.{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}} During her various visits to Northern Ireland, she in fact regularly met politicians of all hues, including [[David Trimble]] of the [[Ulster Unionist Party]] and [[John Hume]] of the [[Social Democratic and Labour Party]].{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}}