Sunday Independent<\/a>, Martin criticised Donald Trump’s immigration policies.<\/p>\n\u201cThe over-reach in com\u00admunit\u00adies is something that is in my view, over-the top com\u00adpletely, and I am glad to see it being pulled back some\u00adwhat now,\u201d Mar\u00adtin said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t believe that put\u00adting ICE into com\u00admunit\u00adies and root\u00ading people out of houses is something I would sup\u00adport or be in favour of.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Taoiseach will be in attendance at the White House for St Patrick’s Day, despite calls from the opposition to boycott the annual event.<\/p>\n
Social Demo\u00adcrats leader Holly Cairns said yes\u00adter\u00adday that the Taoiseach must show Ire\u00adland does \u201cnot bow down to bul\u00adlies\u201d when he meets Mr Trump.<\/p>\n
Mar\u00adtin said his approach is to be \u201ccare\u00adful with the national interest\u201d and \u201cnot to lose the head imme\u00addi\u00adately when something that looks ter\u00adrible is announced\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cPolit\u00adic\u00adally enga\u00adging with people is not an endorse\u00adment of the stance that they have, or of their own polit\u00adics. We all have dif\u00adfer\u00adent polit\u00adics, it can\u2019t be our way or no way.”<\/p>\n
He also defen\u00added his decision to visit Mr Trump in the White House on St Patrick\u2019s Day, say\u00ading there isn\u2019t a single European leader who would turn down the invit\u00ada\u00adtion. <\/p>\n
He said he would have no issue with the US leader address\u00ading the D\u00e1il and will reit\u00ader\u00adate an invit\u00ada\u00adtion for him to visit Ire\u00adland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin has said he will lead Fianna F\u00e1il into the next general election. Martin was under…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-288753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288753","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=288753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}