Elaine Loughlin: Is Micheál Martin the unluckiest Taoiseach ever? 

After two years of restrictions, lockdowns, missed opportunities and difficult decisions, it felt like Michaél Martin was finally getting to do what a Taoiseach should do. But Covid had other ideas, writes Deputy Political Editor Elaine Loughlin in Washington

President Joe Biden meets virtually with Taoiseach Micheál Martin in the Oval Office of the White House. Picture: Patrick Semansky/AP/Shutterstock

Having been thrown in at the deep end of a global pandemic, war in Europe and spiralling inflation, Micheál Martin will go down as possibly the unluckiest Taoiseach in history, and that was before Covid robbed him of the honour of St Patrick's Day in the Oval Office.

Tuesday was one of those balmy golden evenings in Washington and Taoiseach Micheál Martin was finally feeling the glow.