US ambassador appointment a ‘priority’, says Taoiseach

The Taoiseach will push US president Donald Trump to appoint a new ambassador to Ireland when he meets him in Washington this week.

Leo Varadkar has also said that Ireland can act as a bridge between the US and the EU to prevent a trade war.

He said tariffs on goods such as aluminium, blue jeans, whiskey and steel “isn’t a policy that anyone is going to gain from” and will be stressing this when he meets President Donald Trump later this week.