Of Irish Americans, Trump said to Leo Varadkar “I feel I know all of them” and told the new Taoiseach that a female Irish journalist had a “nice smile” before adding, “I bet she treats you well.”
Many people find the west of Ireland to be a place of healing and recovery, but none more so than Queens, NY native Sonia “Sunny” Jacobs and Dublin-born Peter Pringle.
Ireland has its first gay, biracial leader. At 38, he’s its youngest ever too. But not everyone sees his selection as clear evidence of a new, pluralist and more compassionate Ireland.
After all the excitement about the election of Leo Varadkar as our new taoiseach last week, it has to be said that his first week in office turned out to be a bit of a disappointment.
IrishCentral looks back at a remarkable year for EU politics and looks ahead to the most important set of negotiations for Ireland since the Good Friday Agreement.
