{"id":260829,"date":"2026-01-24T02:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/260829\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T02:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:12:07","slug":"trumps-imperialist-instincts-run-counter-to-irelands-foreign-policy-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/260829\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s imperialist instincts run counter to Ireland\u2019s foreign policy heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a week of tumult and turbulence, it was perhaps the Canadian prime minister Mark Carney who exposed just how much Donald Trump\u2019s bizarre pursuit of Greenland had crystalised matters for world leaders<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Paul Hosford: Trump\u2019s imperialist instincts run counter to Ireland\u2019s foreign policy heritage\" alt=\"Paul Hosford: Trump\u2019s imperialist instincts run counter to Ireland\u2019s foreign policy heritage\" src=\"\/cms_media\/module_img\/9886\/4943336_13_articlemedium_SWITZERLAND_20Davos_20194957.jpg\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\"  \/> <\/p>\n<p>US president Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Trump had spent much of the preceding week ratcheting up his insistence that his country \u2018needs\u2019 Greenland. Picture: Laurent Gillieron\/Keystone via AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a week of tumult and turbulence, it was perhaps the Canadian prime minister Mark Carney who exposed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[969,61,60,43,129226],"class_list":{"0":"post-260829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-person-paul-hosford"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260829","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=260829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}