Ireland-China relations - Sensitive stuff

Ceann Comhairle Sean Ó Fearghail’s worry about the sensitivities of the Beijing dictatorship — sorry, government — is such that he has warned TDs planning to go to Taiwan that their visit risks causing “serious offence and grave concern to our Chinese friends”.

Our Government, he reminds them, as if they’d forgotten, accepts Beijing’s One China policy, which means there cannot be diplomatic relations between Ireland and Taiwan.