No 'irreparable damage' to Ireland-US relationship, says ambassador

Andrew Puzder, Donald Trump's ambassador to Brussels, said if any damage had been done by criticism of the US, it was not lasting

The ambassador said he could not say that damage had been done in the first year of the second Donald Trump administration by comments critical of the US war in Iran by President Catherine Connolly or other Irish criticisms of the US. File picture: Jacqueline Dormer

No irreparable damage has been done to the Irish relationship with the US, the country's ambassador to the EU has said.

Speaking to journalists at the US ambassador's residence in Dublin on Wednesday, Andrew Puzder said he could not say that damage had been done in the first year of the second Donald Trump administration by comments critical of the US war in Iran by President Catherine Connolly or other Irish criticisms of the US.