Micheál Martin in unique yet pivotal role ahead of St Patrick's Day meeting with Trump

This St Patrick’s Day, Taoiseach must seek to build bridges between the Trump administration and an increasingly jittery EU

Taoiseach Micheál Martin (left) and US president Donald Trump (right). 

With the world’s power axis dramatically shifting, Micheál Martin must create his own Enda Kenny moment out of the trip to the White House next month.

Just four weeks in office, Donald Trump has turned the world on its head and is reshaping geopolitics more than at any other time since the Second World War.