Louise Byrne
speaker
598 appearances
8 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 13 Sep
Louise Byrne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, it did.
And you would wonder when you see it reported this morning in both the Sunday Independent and the Mail on Sunday that President Trump actually initiated that conversation about a United Ireland with both President Connolly and the Taoiseach at their respective meetings yesterday.
You would wonder how organic that question from the American reporter in Farmley was yesterday.
And as a spokesman for the Taoiseach said last evening, and he's correct in saying it, this is not the first
Time that President Trump has brought this up.
He mentioned mergers before and how much he loved mergers.
And you might remember Emil Pangeli of the DUP really played that down last St.
Yeah,
Patrick's Day.
Quite as easily.
Much bigger declaration.
Much bigger declaration.
And I mean he acknowledged yesterday in that address at Deerfield in the Phoenix Park at the ambassador's reception that you know he thought it would be
Be cool, but that he accepts that it's not necessarily a popular opinion, and you can see that amongst the different reactions from the political parties.
You know, the UK government, Andy Burnham's office saying yesterday that his comments on it still stand, Kemi Badenok, the uh Conservative leader, saying that he's just wading into other people's politics again.
Um I thought you had a great comment from Claire Hannah yesterday, the leader of the SDLP saying that perhaps
President Trump isn't as orange as he looks.
Um and of course the a lot of the Unionist parties in Northern Ireland would have seen Donald Trump as an ally and as a friend, uh particularly the likes of Ian Paisley Jr.
So very aligned and you would have seen you know Ian Paisley Jr.
Very aligned with the
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