Posted on 05/30/2019 7:21:04 AM PDT by Olog-hai
US President Donald Trump has told reporters that he will meet with “a lot of the Irish officials” when he visits Doonbeg in Clare next week.
Trump was asked about his upcoming visit — the eighth by a serving US President — by RTÉ’s Brian O’Donovan earlier today, saying he was “looking forward to” his one-night stay on 5 June.
“We’re going to be staying in Doonbeg in Ireland because it’s convenient and because it’s a great place, but it’s convenient,” Trump said. “We’ll be meeting with a lot of the Irish officials, and it’ll be an overnight stay and I look forward to that.” […]
Reports in US media and the Irish Times had suggested that there was a standoff between both countries over where a meeting between the US President and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar will take place. […]
Tánaiste Simon Coveney later labeled reports about a standoff between the two countries as “a total exaggeration”. …
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here’s a few gems
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/funding-the-clinton-foundation-1.2765899
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/obrien-a-top-25-donor-to-clintons-np73mwr9p
IRELAND like other countries got swindled
Ireland's proud accomplishment over the last few years consists of finding ever more thoroughgoing ways to reject their Christian identity, dishonor their parents and grandparents, contracept their partnering, divorce their spouses, bugger their brothers and abort their children --- thus breaking faith at every level, humanly speaking, and achieving a corresponding level of moral, social and spiritual disintegration.
Ireland used to be justly called the "Island of Saints and Scholars."
Now they look on their own decomposition with pride. Pride with a capital "P".
May Divine Mercy --- somehow --- restore them.
And us, too.
I used to live there when I was young. I don’t recognize the place anymore, but I know the cause.
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