The Oval Office isn’t as Irish as the main White House, but despite that, Taoiseach Micheál Martin managed to lay on the Blarney on Tuesday, making sure to mention the Cork man who named the United States.
“Thirty-five million people in this country claim Irish descent and Irish heritage,” Mr Martin told an evidently impressed US president Donald Trump on St Patrick’s Day.
“Three people born on the island of Ireland signed the [American] declaration of independence, it was printed by an Irishman, John Dunlap, and disseminated across the colonies, and Charles Thompson … designed the bald eagle on the seal of the US.
“Our connection is foundational,…