{"id":257066,"date":"2026-01-22T00:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/257066\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T00:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:56:10","slug":"taoiseach-and-up-to-10-ministers-to-visit-us-for-st-patricks-week-celebrations-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/257066\/","title":{"rendered":"Taoiseach and up to 10 Ministers to visit US for St Patrick\u2019s week celebrations \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Taoiseach and up to 10 Ministers will visit the United States as part of the St Patrick\u2019s Day celebrations, the D\u00e1il has heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Minister of State for the Diaspora Neale Richmond said the Government will announce a \u201cSt Patrick\u2019s Day trade missions, representatives and also office holders\u201d to travel globally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cNow is exactly the time when our Taoiseach should go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/white-house\/\">White House <\/a>&#8230; You don\u2019t just go when times are easy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He said, \u201cthis is an opportunity &#8230; Ireland has the responsibility to make ourselves present at the table to take every opportunity \u2013 just as we do through our European institutions and multilateral organisations, and on a bilateral level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cWe will see probably up to nine or 10 Ministers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/white-house\/\">go to 15 other US states <\/a>&#8230; to build relationships at a political at an economic level.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He was speaking during a debate on the international situation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Labour foreign affairs spokesman Duncan Smith warned that if the Government chooses to accept the invitation to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/white-house\/\">White House<\/a>, \u201cit should be about delivering a message. If we\u2019re in the midst of a trade war, it might be an opportunity to engage, to de-escalate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cOf course, we may be in a position where to boycott that meeting is the right course of action &#8230; but we need to be strong in whatever actions we choose to take.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image audio_image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767177877588-3bab3de8-62c2-4c3b-9d11-75f906621012.jpeg\"\/>Ireland and Europe weigh options as Trump keeps pressure up over Greenland<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Mr Smith said the United States was no longer a trusted ally of the European Union. \u201cThe way in which the current administration is acting in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/white-house\/\">the United States <\/a>is increasingly imperialistic, autocratic and fascist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThere is a chance to build something better from the ashes of a partnership with an economic bully that\u2019s been led by a tyrant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cWe cannot be complacent to think that Donald Trump and [his] administration are an aberration. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThis movement could continue beyond Trump, and we need to plan for that\u201d and \u201cwe do need to plan for a hard divorce\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Taoiseach and up to 10 Ministers will visit the United States as part of the St Patrick\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3775,61,60,127931,43,112108,20966],"class_list":["post-257066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-fine-gael","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-neale-richmond","tag-news","tag-trump-inauguration","tag-trump-presidency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}