Dearbhail McDonald

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Brendan O'Connor · President Trump - "A united Ireland would be a very cool thing" · 12 Sep 2026 podcast

But he also said that they discussed Northern Ireland and they discussed a lot of things, positive things.

It's really interesting.

Before we even get into the politics, Carl Balf of it, um, I wonder did you think it was qu quite quite a soft image?

Like I mean, it wasn't just um, you know, not a particularly inflammatory press conference, but Donald Trump was um it was very much a family visit.

He'd Donald Trump Jr., his wife Bettina Anderson and the and the three children, Donald Trump the third, Spencer Trump and Chloe Trump.

So there there was quite a a a a soft or sort of a a more

Portender kind of um

I I suppose look or optics to

That's when he was asked, Larry, about um about the US facilitating genocide in Gaza and the illegal occupation of the West Bank.

And that was um he was asked that by um Orti News about accusations in that regard.

Um it was interesting.

The the Irish Times had done um a fairly robust editorial.

They said there will be little sense of the occasion that has greeted some of his predecessors, and yet for a not a

official visit, it appeared to have all of the the the trappings and the trimmings of of a very, very um high profile s official visit.

C could you hold that though because I want to come back to that issue, but first of all I want to go to Michal Lahan, who's been in Phoenix Park um this morning, Ortiz political correspondent.

Michal, um can you tell us about what's been happening so far this morning and and the initial reactions there on the ground in Phoenix Park, which of course was host to all three uh sets of engagements for uh Donald Trump this morning.

And particularly with uh Ireland's hosting of the uh presidency of the EU Council, there there there is e e even a a bigger gaze on on Ireland at the moment.

What happens next?

There's there's quite a significant uh uh group of people meeting at Deerfield, which of course is home to the uh US Ambassadors residence in Phoenix Park, neighbours with the President.

There have been some anticipation that there might be no pressure um as a result of President Don Donald Trump's visit in in respect of issues like trade or energy, but uh but there doesn't seem to be anything of that nature so far.

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