Ethiopia–Ireland relations are foreign relations between Ethiopia and Ireland. Both countries established diplomatic relations in 1994, the same year Ireland opened an embassy in Addis Ababa. Ethiopia has an embassy in Dublin. Both countries signed a Technical Agreement 21 February 1995. That same year the Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs with responsibility for development cooperation, Joan Burton visited Ethiopia. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Seyoum Mesfin visited Ireland, and in 2002 Prime Minister Meles Zenawi also paid that country a formal visit.