Irish President Mary McAleese has invited her Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev and his wife Svetlana to come to Ireland and attend a Gaelic football match and a hurling competition, the Irish Independent newspaper said on Friday.
McAleese is in Russia on a working trip, the first visit by an Irish president since the establishment of diplomatic relations between Moscow and Dublin in 1973.
"First of all he didn't say no, and he was very taken with the idea," McAleese was quoted by the paper as saying.
"I think we managed to persuade him that hurling and Gaelic football were well worth seeing," she added.
RIA Novosti
