Former ambassador to US says Ireland will need to size up how positions on Israel and Palestine might land in a Trump White House

Ireland is a more successful country than it was in the lifetimes of most voters and that makes it difficult to construct an angry narrative of failure

Ireland is an outlier in resisting the forces of rampant populism across the continent

The president elect’s appointments have come thick and fast and the evidence they bring is not reassuring

Just bellyaching about the reality of the Republican victory is no use

My advice about Donald Trump is not to underestimate his skillset as a politician