Why Micheál Martin should not visit Donald Trump for St Patrick's Day

Ireland must choose between our European neighbours and the emerging Russia-US axis, writes John O'Brennan

US president Donald Trump, centre, and vice president JD Vance, right, clashed with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office last Friday over a deal to end the war against Russia. Picture: Andrew Harnik/Getty

In the run up to the annual St Patrick’s Day jamboree in the White House (this year set for March 12), there has been lively debate about whether it is appropriate for the Taoiseach and his entourage to go to Washington DC.

This debate has become all the more urgent in the light of the abhorrent treatment of president Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the hands of Donald Trump and JD Vance in the Oval Office last week.