It is hard to think of another country that has so very successfully turned its national day, the celebration of its national saint’s birthday — one of them anyway — into such slick marketing and political opportunities.

If you wanted to start a Make Enda Great Again campaign, then you could think of worse times to do it than a day after befriending Donald Trump and in the middle of a celebration for an old man who banished the snakes of Ireland.

They renamed the Taoiseach on St Patrick’s Day in the United States.