Green party leader defends President Higgins' comments on Trump's climate change policy

Eamon Ryan said the use of the word "pernicious" by President Higgins was appropriate.

Green party leader Eamon Ryan has defended President Higgins’ comments on US President Donald Trump’s attitude to climate change.

At the European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) trade union conference in the RDS, Dublin on Tuesday President Higgins criticised his US counterpart’s policy on climate change as “regressive and pernicious”.