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TAOISEACH MICHEÁL MARTIN has said he would “absolutely” invite US President Donald Trump to Ireland following his journey to the White House next month.
Speaking to reporters this morning, Martin said he expects a meeting with Trump to take place in the Oval Office and will be arranged through the local Irish embassy in Washington D.C.
Asked if he would invite the American President to Ireland, ahead of a cabinet meeting in Dublin this morning, Martin said: “We would absolutely invite Trump to Ireland. He’s welcome here.”
Trump previously visited Ireland as President in 2019, meeting with then-Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at Shannon Airport before travelling to his hotel and golf resort in Dunbeg, Co Clare.
Visits to Ireland are commonly extended to the President by the Taoiseach following the annual meeting in Washington. No invited has been extended to Martin visit the Oval Office, though he said the meeting is normally arranged through officials and diplomats.
The Taoiseach, along with a number of other ministers, will flock to the United States to engaged with American politicians and communities for St Patrick’s Day next month. Martin is due to travel to Texas before making his way to the White House.
Reacting to the announcement today, People Before Profit-Solidarity TD Ruth Coppinger – whose party has called on Martin not to attend the White House visit this year – said there would be a “huge response” to a visit by Trump to Ireland.
Speaking outside the Dáil today, she said: “I can see the protest marches gathering about that. We’ve had regular protests on the issue, particularly on Palestine.
“I think there’s a very strong anti-imperialist mood in Ireland. And I think if Trump came, there’d be a huge response in opposition to that.”
Asked if it was right to call on the Taoiseach to sit out the proceedings in Washington, Coppinger said: “I wouldn’t have much faith in Micheál Martin standing up to Donald Trump, because we haven’t seen any evidence of that.”
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Makes no difference who you vote for, You still get the WEF government
@087 bed: WEF? – World Economic Forum?
@087 bed: see https://conspiracychart.com for all things NWO, chemtrails, chipping, and replacement theories.
I wonder if the same secret service would protect Netanyahou…. That could solve a lot of problems
@Dominic Leleu: and potential assassins should be vetted by the NRA to ensure a more positive outcome. Might be an idea to invite putin, xi, orban and others
@Alan: agreed
When thinking about Simon Coveney , this a verbatim quote
Owning your own home is not a bad aspiration, but if there was more certainty in the rental market in Ireland, you would see more people choosing to rent and to invest in rental property,” said Coveney.
“The attitude towards long-term rental is changing in Ireland and we need to respond to that with market conditions that reinforce and encourage that change of mindset.”
@Andrew Kiely: what’s your point?
@SYaxJ2Ts: His point is, that Coveney’s prophecy, hope & implementation of same came through in Govt policy & is part of the problem today. It wouldn’t affect you Kevin as a Govt lackey on a big salary, but it affects thousands of young working Irish people who are paying extortionate rent & who can’t buy or afford a home in Ireland today.
@SV3tN8M4: context is key here, and I don’t know when this quote is from, but surely certainty in the rental market is a good thing, albeit aspirational rather than real? You know, some security of tenure, rent certainty, that kind of thing. Anything to add here? Or are you just going to sling insults
@SV3tN8M4: and any chance of backing up your claim from yesterday that SF will introduce sleight of hand legislation to increase granting of asylum applications? I’ve asked twice already. Surely you’ve managed to find the relevant evidence by now
@SV3tN8M4: I suppose all those people the Gardai have charged were all working very hard to buy a house and provide for their families. Most of them staying in the city centre at the taxpayers cost
@Peter Byrne: Wouldn’t know Peter, don’t have anything to do with them, too busy working trying to make ends meet & pay my mortgage. You must be a happy man today that you & your buddies got a top up of 750,000, you might get your bumper Exit package & NDA now. Harris likes to reward Deceit & Incompetence, some of those in your organization are no better than those you judged above.
@Andrew Kiely:
I’ve just spent a week in Metz France.
As in other European cities all accommodation within the city is in apartments. Apartments cannot be used for property speculation. If an apartment is unoccupied for an extended period it has to be sold back to the freehold company (owners association).
If you want to live in a house – to go to a village 10 -20 km out.
Buttimer has repeatedly been rejected by the cork electorate, and now finally by his own party. Maybe this time the penny will drop
@mickey mac: Once Fine Gael learned that Buttimer was attending pro-Palestinian events that was end for him.
Simon Coveney looked well, which is important in politics. But after that he lacked leadership. He fronted up the ‘ same-s marriage’ referendum by parroting the party line and adding in his own daughters. One of them might be that way.
Fair point but not compelling. let them have all the rights of marriage, but call it something else. Marriage always meant man and woman.
Neologisms are used every day to overturn the established order.
For example – gender was a grammatical term to distinguish three different forms of a noun. Male and female got into it because they were two obvious categories. But there was never a case of an obvious male having a female noun form or visa versa.
Generally a neuter gender noun is a noun that denotes a lifeless thing. A thing which is neither male nor female.
But as anyone who learned French knows a pen and a pencil have different genders even though they both are technically neuter.
La plume de ma tante
Le crayon de ma tante
In fact there is no neuter gender in French. An omission which the French chattering class are struggling to cope with.
Anyhow this is a long way from Simon Coveney – other than to point out that weak leaders are easily pushed into fronting up anything which a mob (nowadays a Twitter mob) wants.
There is certainly a FG seat in Cork SC, especially as it’s now a 5 seater. Going to a battle royal between Úna McCarthy and Shane O Callaghan to whose ahead after the first count. That’s vital. As it’s extremely unlikely both will get elected
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