DUP’s Little-Pengelly says Trump’s comment about an Irish ‘merger’ was ‘just a bit of banter’ The Journal Trump’s merger comments were ‘clearly a joke’, Little-Pengelly says BBC Taoiseach defends UK’s Keir Starmer as an ‘earnest, sound person’ to Trump in Oval Office meeting The Irish Independent ‘I love mergers’: Donald Trump appears to make suggestion about Irish unity … Read more
Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O’Neill and deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly (Liam McBurney/PA) Michelle O’Neill and Emma Little-Pengelly’s appearance before the Executive Office scrutiny committee descended into heated exchanges and name-calling on Wednesday afternoon. At one stage the First Minister hit out at the TUV’s Timothy Gaston’s “nonsense” that led to him being suspended … Read more
President Catherine Connolly began three days of engagements in Northern Ireland with a visit to Stormont Castle in Belfast on Wednesday morning. The engagements this week are Connolly’s first official visit to the North during her presidency. On arriving at Stormont Castle, she was welcomed by First Minister Michelle O’Neill and Deputy First Minister Emma … Read more
One of the statistics that might have been useful to Donald Trump as he lathered the Irish in buttery praise during Wednesday’s luncheon on Capitol Hill was the number of former US presidents with Irish lineage. Or, more precisely, with a direct line back to Ulster Scots. “We do know there is that direct line … Read more
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DUP deputy First Minister will travel to US for St Patrick’s Day TheJournal.ie Siobhán Fenton: Mary Lou McDonald’s White House boycott is a sign of a more aggressive Sinn Féin approach The Irish Times St Patrick’s Day: Emma Little-Pengelly confirms she will go to Washington DC BBC.com O’Neill ‘could not live’ with White House visit RTÉ News Limerick TD … Read more