Daniel Mulhall
@danmulhall.bsky.social
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Retired Irish Ambassador, author, consultant, media commentator, Director,
#Carlichauns
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Introducing the
#Carlichauns
to
@bsky.app
. An animated childrenâs entertainment venture for which I am Brand Ambassador. Carlingfordâs leprechauns, the Carlichauns, travel the world to deliver wishes to children. Check them out at
www.carlichauns.com
over 1 year ago
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A poem for
#PoetryDayIreland
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www.rte.ie/culture/2026...
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At Home: EilĂŠan NĂ ChuilleanĂĄin's poem for Poetry Day Ireland
Poetry Day Ireland is an annual, all-island celebration dedicated to reading, writing, and sharing poetry, organized by Poetry Ireland.
https://www.rte.ie/culture/2026/0528/1575558-at-home-eilean-ni-chuilleanains-poem-for-poetry-day-ireland/
1 day ago
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Calling all Irish entrepreneurs. As an advisor to Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, it was a pleasure to speak at the launch of the North-South Business Cooperation Awards which have a prize fund of âŹ500,000. Details available on
Stelios.ie
. Entry forms can be downloaded here.
form.typeform.com/to/FlKKpV5F
1 day ago
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Visions came & went like shafts of sunlight at the woods near Coole; nymphs playing on the shore were part of a permanent familiar insight; a familiar world of rocks, woods & water. He was the first to live by the eternal Feminine, to spill water & woodland over violent politics. Thomas McCarthy
3 days ago
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My review of âJames Joyce: a political lifeâ by Frank Callanan appears in the latest issue of The Irish Post. Callanan highlights the keen interest Joyce took in the politics of the country he left behind in 1904 which continued to shape his work during the many years he spent out of Ireland.
4 days ago
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I was on
@rteradio1.bsky.social
âs Newspaper Panel this morning discussing the two bye-elections, the Middle East etc. Link đ
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
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Brendan O'Connor
A live stimulating mix of news, interviews, reports and discussion, presented by Dearbhail McDonald.
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/brendan-oconnor/episodes/11798139/
5 days ago
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I was on
@newstalkfm.bsky.social
Breakfast this morning reviewing the Trump-Xi summit. Link here đ
www.goloudplayer.com/episodes/xi-...
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https://www.goloudplayer.com/episodes/xi-jinping-warns-donald-trump-th-YTU2MTE4NzdjYTUzZmI3YTVhOTgzMDg5ZmVmZDM2ODQ=
14 days ago
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The SNP has been in power since 2007 and looks set to win todayâs Scottish election. It profits from being an unambiguously Scottish party with a core vote of some 30%. Reform UK has also eaten into the vote of its Labour & Conservative rivals.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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Daniel Mulhall: A win for the Scottish National Party doesnât mean the UK âcracking at the seamsâ
Getting Westminsterâs agreement to a fresh independence referendum will not be easy
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/05/07/a-win-for-the-scottish-national-party-does-not-mean-the-uk-cracking-at-the-seams/
22 days ago
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reposted by
Daniel Mulhall
Association for Scottish Literature
24 days ago
@danmulhall.bsky.social
compares 2 major
#C19
figures: Irelandâs Daniel OâConnell & Scotlandâs Sir Walter Scott. But where Scott helped preserve & define Scottish identity through history, literature & tradition, OâConnell was above all a practical political reformer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J94...
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Dan Mulhall - King Dan and the Kingâs man: Daniel OâConnell and Sir Walter Scott
YouTube video by The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J94G6Utlek
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Daniel Mulhall
Twin deities hover in Irish air Reconciling poles of east and west; The detached & sensual Indian God, Franciscan dream of gentleness: Gravity of Georgian manor Approves, with classic stare, Their dual disciplines of tenderness. John Montague
25 days ago
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Twin deities hover in Irish air Reconciling poles of east and west; The detached & sensual Indian God, Franciscan dream of gentleness: Gravity of Georgian manor Approves, with classic stare, Their dual disciplines of tenderness. John Montague
25 days ago
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I took part in BBC Radio Ulsterâs Talkback Programme today discussing King Charlesâs speech to Congress. đ
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Talkback - BBC Sounds
William Crawley debates challenging issues and talks to the people making the headlines.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002vkxv
30 days ago
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The bell on Haddington Road rang, a fumbled clang behind the flats. Anderson calling to his neighbour. Hauling down on the high rope, announcing his iron absolutes audible in Inchicore. Disturbing the sanctuary lamp - cup of blood, seed of light, hanging down from their dark height Thomas Kinsella
about 1 month ago
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Daniel Mulhall
Here is a link to my contribution to this weekâs Sunday Miscellany programme on
@rteradio1.bsky.social
- âThe Man from County Buenos Airesâ
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
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The Man from County Buenos Aires, by Daniel Mulhall
Irish connections and history in an Argentinian hurling club
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22600556/
about 2 months ago
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We hesitated before that wider sea but our heads sang with purpose & predatory peace. ⌠At no great distance out in the bay the swell took us into its mercy, great upheaving slopes of water sliding under us, collapsing, crawling onward, mountainous. Thomas Kinsella âFinistèreâ
about 1 month ago
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We hesitated before that wider sea but our heads sang with purpose & predatory peace. ⌠At no great distance out in the bay the swell took us into its mercy, great upheaving slopes of water sliding under us, collapsing, crawling onward, mountainous. Thomas Kinsella âFinistèreâ
about 1 month ago
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âIrelandâs lost political experimentâ. Here is link to a review I wrote of a book on the All for Ireland League, a political party that flourished in Cork from 1909-1918. It was devoted to the cause of reconciliation betwen nationalists & unionists.
www.irishpost.com/features/ire...
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Irelandâs lost political experiment | The Irish Post
HISTORY has its broad thoroughfares along which we plot journeys through the past and see the mai...
https://www.irishpost.com/features/irelands-lost-political-experiment-307386
about 1 month ago
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At times I see it, present As a bright day, or a hill, The only way of saying something Luminously as possible. Not the accumulated richness Of an old historical language - That musk-deep odour! But a slow exactness Which recreates experience By ritualising its details - John Montague
about 1 month ago
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Brightness was drenching through the branches When she wandered again, Turning the silver out of dark grasses Where the skylark had lain, And her voice coming softly over the meadow Was the mist becoming rain. Austin Clarke, The Lost Heifer
about 1 month ago
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Obituary - Moya Brennan: the first lady of Celtic music. I met her a number of times in London & Berlin. A wonderfully warm and hugely talented women.
www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
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Obituary - Moya Brennan: the first lady of Celtic music
It was like nothing your average Top of The Pops fan had heard before.
https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2026/0414/1568219-obituary-moya-brennan-the-first-lady-of-celtic-music/
about 1 month ago
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Here is a link to my contribution to this weekâs Sunday Miscellany programme on
@rteradio1.bsky.social
- âThe Man from County Buenos Airesâ
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
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The Man from County Buenos Aires, by Daniel Mulhall
Irish connections and history in an Argentinian hurling club
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22600556/
about 2 months ago
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Check out
@rteradio1.bsky.social
âs
#SundayMiscellany
at 9.10 am tomorrow morning which will feature my essay on The Man from County Buenos Airesâ
about 2 months ago
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The six-book shortlist for the Dublin Literary Award 2026 has been announced. It was a privilege for me to be one of the five judges for this yearâs award and to read so many wonderful novels. The winner will be announced at a ceremony in
#Dublin
next month.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Dublin Literary Award 2026 shortlist: âLiterature at its most international, most ambitious, and most humaneâ
Award-winning Scottish author Ali Smith, Vietnamese American writer Ocean Vuong and a Croatian debutant feature on a list with a strong French accent
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2026/04/07/dublin-literary-award-2026-shortlist-literature-at-its-most-international-most-ambitious-and-most-humane/
about 2 months ago
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Thereâs not a place, stream or bush, however remote; ⌠that we shouldnât consider with affection & sympathy. No matter how far South Africa, no matter how distant the moon, theyâre part of us by right: thereâs not a single spot anywhere weâre not part of. We issue from everywhere. Greg Delanty
about 2 months ago
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Daniel Mulhall
The wind orchestrates its theme of loneliness & the rain has too much glitter in it, yes. They are like words, the wrong ones, insisting I listen to sense. ⌠What I am after is silence in proportion to desire, the way music plumbs its surfaces as straight words do the air between them Vona Groarke
about 2 months ago
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The wind orchestrates its theme of loneliness & the rain has too much glitter in it, yes. They are like words, the wrong ones, insisting I listen to sense. ⌠What I am after is silence in proportion to desire, the way music plumbs its surfaces as straight words do the air between them Vona Groarke
about 2 months ago
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âUS gas prices hit $4 per gallonâŚâ . This will pile pressure on for a quick end to this war. Even MAGA enthusiasts will not be happy with this development or with a further escalation.
edition.cnn.com/2026/03/31/w...
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Live updates: Kuwaiti tanker laden with oil attacked as Trump again threatens to blow up Iranâs energy facilities | CNN
No oil leakage or injuries have been reported following the Iranian strike on the Kuwaiti tanker. Follow for live updates.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/31/world/live-news/iran-war-us-trump-oil
about 2 months ago
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One more time, call the earth female, as of old. She needs to be placed pronto in the recovery position, gently hold her chin up, bend the left arm at the elbow, hand above the head, palm facing down âwaving goodbye or hello? Greg Delanty
about 2 months ago
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Daniel Mulhall
It was always those with little else to carry who carried the songs to Babylon to the Mississippi- some of these last possessed less than nothing did not own their own bodies yet, three centuries later, deep rhythms from Africa, stowed in their hearts & bones, carry the worldâs songs. Moya Cannon
2 months ago
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It was always those with little else to carry who carried the songs to Babylon to the Mississippi- some of these last possessed less than nothing did not own their own bodies yet, three centuries later, deep rhythms from Africa, stowed in their hearts & bones, carry the worldâs songs. Moya Cannon
2 months ago
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The reprieve from danger Cast a halo around Sunlight on dewy grass, Purple shadow thrown By mountains, the carnal Pink of sunset, a green Glade amid blitzed woodlands Above the Isonzo. We Hear the din of battle In the white silence Around his words. Michael Longley
#Irish
#Poetry
2 months ago
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The strong geese claim the sky again & tell us ⌠of the many shifts & weathers of the long-boned earth. Blind to their huge, water-carved charts, our blood dull to the the tug of poles, we are tuned still to the rising & dying of light & we still share their need to nest & to journey. Moya Cannon
2 months ago
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Long after my dead time I survive To see snow melt on the lifeless icicles Off the coast of Atlantis The ocean has shrunk to expose The bleak creatures of coral animation. Thoughts roam in aimless shoals with giddy dolphins There are visions & revisions. I remain in the Land of Doubt Hayden Murphy
2 months ago
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As a vetrran of
#Stuttgart
1988, I will be watching tonightâs game with fingers crossed that
#Prague
2026 will come to be remembered as another epic day for Irish football.
www.rte.ie/sport/soccer...
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World Cup play-off: Czechia v Ireland build-up
The day has finally arrived and now it's a case of counting down the hours and minutes before Ireland face up to Czechia in this highly anticipated play-off.
https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2026/0326/1565292-world-cup-semi-final-play-off-czechia-v-republic-of-ireland-updates/
2 months ago
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Itâs hard to think of a more brilliant Irish family in modern times than the Yeatses. đ
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How the 'talented, complicated' Yeats' family shaped Ireland
The family helped shaped each other, the arts and public life in Ireland and beyond despite creative tensions and financial hardships
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2026/0325/1564818-yeats-family-ireland-influence-arts-culture/
2 months ago
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Sing carnival when the mind freezes Then turns on its own meat, carnival Before the long fast, carnival that we turn To drink at the blood wells of memory. Savage simplicity, in the bleached palms Of the self-regarding dancers; Savage & clear, the energy Of the self-disclosing dancers. Theo Dorgan
2 months ago
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Itâs hard to know what the believe at this stage as the narrative from Washington keeps changing. My best guess is that the end is nigh for this war, but that the future for the region will remain highly uncertain with a continuing stand-off between Iran & Israel.
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2 months ago
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
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Trump says negotiations to end war happening 'right now' and Iran is 'talking sense'
His comments come a day after Iranian officials denied any contact with the US had taken place, calling claims of talks
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn8dldl0jx9t
2 months ago
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As you plaited the harvest bow You implicated the mellowed silence in you In wheat that does not rust But brightens as it tightens twist by twist Into a knowable corona, A throwaway love-knot of straw. Seamus Heaney âThe Harvest Bowâ
2 months ago
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Water was the first mirror, drinking images of beauty, showing their wrinkled future in the mildest breeze. Water clings to its neutrality, changes state at boiling point, finds the level at which tensions cool, limbs relax. Dennis OâDriscoll âWaterâ
#Irish
#Poetry
2 months ago
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I will be on BBC Northern Irelandâs The View at 11 pm reviewing a busy Irish week in Washington for
#StPatricksDay
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2 months ago
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Ireland needs to grow up & get serious about its interests Interesting reflections by ex-Irish Ambassador Bobby McDonagh & Prof Emeritus Brigid Laffan on the clouded horizons for Irish foreign policy. A wake up call for us to get serious about our future security
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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Opinion: Ireland need to grow up and get serious about our interests
In the infantile recent debate about the Mercosur deal, for example, politicians from all sides fell over each other to criticise an agreement profoundly in Irelandâs interests
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/03/18/opinion-ireland-need-to-grow-up-and-get-serious-about-our-interests/
2 months ago
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Here is a link to my interview
@rteradio1.bsky.social
âs Morning Ireland reviewing the Taoiseachâs meeting with President Trump. The Taoiseach came through it all with great credit for his defence of Keir Starmer & the EU.
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
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Taoiseach defends Starmer as Trump takes aim at allies in St Patrick's Day meeting
Dan Mulhall, former Irish Ambassador to the United States and Lorcan Nyhan from The Communications Clinic, analyse Taoiseach MicheĂĄl Martinâs performance alongside US President Donald Trump at the Ova...
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22593588/
2 months ago
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Waif of the afterglow On summer nights you meet your mate & jink Over sea-cliff & graveyard ⌠To hatch an egg in a hermitâs skull. Pulse of the rock You throb till daybreak on your cryptic nest A song older than fossils, Ephemeral as thrift It ends with a gasp. Richard Murphy âStormpetrelâ
2 months ago
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Daniel Mulhall
A cast of characters: Hamnet, Hamlet, William Shakespeare and James Joyce On a big day at the
#Oscars
for Jessie Buckley &
#Hamnet
, a reminder that in
#Ulysses
James Joyce wrote about the Hamnet/Hamlet link that runs through the film.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...
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A cast of characters: Hamnet, Hamlet, William Shakespeare and James Joyce
I did what I could to connect the playwright with Ireland, but it was a stretch
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-irish-diary/2026/03/09/a-cast-of-characters-hamnet-hamlet-william-shakespeare-and-james-joyce/
3 months ago
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⌠His thoughts altered the deepest enmities. Like a woman who gathers her husbandâs arrogance into a basket of love, he took our wars into the palm of his thought and stroked the poisons from where we had fought. Thomas McCarthy âThe Wisdom of AEâ
3 months ago
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A cast of characters: Hamnet, Hamlet, William Shakespeare and James Joyce On a big day at the
#Oscars
for Jessie Buckley &
#Hamnet
, a reminder that in
#Ulysses
James Joyce wrote about the Hamnet/Hamlet link that runs through the film.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...
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A cast of characters: Hamnet, Hamlet, William Shakespeare and James Joyce
I did what I could to connect the playwright with Ireland, but it was a stretch
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-irish-diary/2026/03/09/a-cast-of-characters-hamnet-hamlet-william-shakespeare-and-james-joyce/
3 months ago
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Good point.đ
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3 months ago
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Her eyes are pebbles. Her dress is seaweed. Her legs are driftwood that needs to float, but for now she keeps wading, slicing the waves that keep on offering their myriad loves. Matthew Sweeney âWadingâ
#Irish
#Poetry
3 months ago
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reposted by
Daniel Mulhall
A preview of next weekâs White House visit by the Taoiseach MicheĂĄl Martin
@theguardian.com
to which I contributed.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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âA minefieldâ: taoiseach prepares for St Patrickâs Day visit to Washington
Traditionally jovial affair poses potential debacle for Irish leader at odds with US over foreign policy, tax and immigration
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/13/taoiseach-st-patricks-day-visit-washington-trump
3 months ago
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A preview of next weekâs White House visit by the Taoiseach MicheĂĄl Martin
@theguardian.com
to which I contributed.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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âA minefieldâ: taoiseach prepares for St Patrickâs Day visit to Washington
Traditionally jovial affair poses potential debacle for Irish leader at odds with US over foreign policy, tax and immigration
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/13/taoiseach-st-patricks-day-visit-washington-trump
3 months ago
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