The Taoiseach is to raise concerns around a possible “spiral of tit for tats” in trade between the EU and the US when he meets president Donald Trump this week.

The Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, is to join actor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, singer, Nile Rodgers, and Bernie Sanders as a speaker at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Texas.

A man who attacked a deaf and mute couple before robbing the woman of her handbag has been sentenced to two years.