{"id":400141,"date":"2026-04-15T17:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/400141\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T17:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:57:12","slug":"irelands-us-relationship-could-have-been-damaged-by-connolly-iran-condemnation-us-ambassador-to-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/400141\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland\u2019s US relationship \u2018could have been damaged\u2019 by Connolly Iran condemnation \u2013 US Ambassador to EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\u2018I think you have relationships with friends that sometimes are better than at other times,\u2019 said Andrew Puzder, speaking in Dublin\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US Ambassador Andrew Puzder (AP)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f711107f-7837-4114-a69b-a8e45cd5c74e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">US Ambassador Andrew Puzder (AP)<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The US ambassador to the EU says that Ireland\u2019s relationship with the US \u201dcould have been damaged\u201d by recent comments from President Catherine Connolly and government politicians over US action in Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">He also took aim at Europe\u2019s \u201cover-regulated\u201d economy as he meets Irish state officials to lobby for US positions ahead of Ireland taking on the EU presidency in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018I think you have relationships with friends that sometimes are better than at other times,\u2019 said Andrew Puzder,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":["post-400141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400141","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=400141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}