Louise Byrne

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598 appearances 8 recordings 4 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 13 Sep

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Brendan O'Connor · The Newspaper Panel · 13 Sep 2026 podcast

in particular referring to the Trump family as friends of his.

uh y you would you would imagine that those comments have not gone down well and you saw I think it was Gregory Campbell yesterday saying it looked like it was something out of Father Ted.

So this if has had big impact, you would question as well, and this is mentioned in both the Mail on Sunday and in the Sunday Independent, what were these comments in aid of?

Or is it I think it was all

And he produced this amazing video actually for St Patrick's Day Zora Mandami reflecting on Saint Patrick and the kind of the Irish trials and tribulations.

So i and it's funny 'cause we said this when Donald Trump came in, how serious would he take Irish US relations compared to someone like President Biden who uh was, you know, so deeply rooted in Irish culture and really wanted to come back and trace his ancestry and do all of these different things and

That big visit that he did in twenty twenty three was seen as a major highlight of his presidency in some ways.

And we had these concerns when Donald Trump came back to office and yet they don't think that's a very good thing.

But also the focus

And I mean we we a lot of people view him as unserious and he does have this, I guess, more jovial personality and some of the things he comes out with they're absolutely

crackers, but he is calculated and I think deep down beneath it all he's a lot smarter than s a lot of people would give him credit for and he doesn't say things unintentionally and I think Shane is right and you saw it back as far as March when the Taoiseach was in the Oval Office, this real dislike of Keir Starmer as British Prime Minister at the time and the Taoiseach really having to kind of step up and stand up for Keir Starmer, which was extraordinary

In and of itself, and despite the change in Ten Downing Street, you would imagine that that dislike and distrust of the British administration still stands for

Donald Trump.

And I mean I don't uh while I d I don't think it was an off the cuff comment.

I really don't.

I think he n knew perhaps what he was doing.

Like I said, if he brought this up with President Connolly and uh to the tea shock, I I wasn't there yesterday, but from hearing He doubled down.

But from hearing the recording of the doorstep, it sounded like an American reporter who would ask that question on Irish Unity.

So you would wonder was that something

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