Economy is at serious risk unless we reset our international relationships
Taoiseach Micheál Martin and US president Donald Trump at the White House. Photo: PA
If the British have a “special relationship” with the US, Ireland’s is surely a unique one. Few countries boast the deep cultural, genetic and economic connections that Ireland and America share.
It is for this that the Taoiseach gets to travel to Washington each year for St Patrick’s Day, assured of an audience with the most powerful man in the world. Most years, these meetings involve a bit of old blarney. President Joe Biden’s Irishness was so deep that the Taoiseach and visiting dignitaries barely had to make an effort.