So Micheál Martin entered into the lion’s den and emerged, if not quite unscathed, then at least alive and kicking.
Through 50 minutes or so of a rambling, rolling press “spray” (as the Americans call it) in the Oval Office on Wednesday, Martin sat beside Donald Trump as the US president rollicked through familiar themes – the unfairness of the European Union, how the US is being shafted by its allies, the uselessness of Joe Biden and the Democrats, the terrible war in Ukraine and, most of all perhaps, what a great job he is doing.
Trump did most of the talking, of course. Martin sat beside him smiling and nodding, struggling to interject occasionally. Everyone might have…