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Micheál Martin (left) and Simon Harris Alamy

Martin offers Trump 'warmest' congratulations as Simon Harris hopes for another Irish visit

Harris also praised Trump’s “magnificent golf links in Doonbeg”.

INCOMING TAOISEACH MICHEÁL Martin has offered his “warmest congratulations” to newly sworn in US President Donald Trump. 

“Ireland’s close ties with the United States are built on generations of shared history and a rich tapestry of connections between our peoples,” Martin said.

“On this historic day, the American people can be assured that Ireland will always remain a constant and reliable partner and friend.”

Martin described the Ireland-US relationship as “a rich, dynamic and mutually beneficial political and economic partnership”. 

“Our task is to further strengthen this partnership, and to create sustainable jobs and prosperity on both sides of the Atlantic,” he said.

Martin added that international cooperation “is the only way we can address and resolve our common challenges, as well as our differences”.

Outgoing Taoiseach Simon Harris has also offered his congratulations to President Trump, saying that he hopes Ireland will have the chance to welcome him again.

Harris “warmly” congratulated Trump in a statement following his inauguration in Washington D.C. today. 

Harris also praised Trump’s “magnificent golf links in Doonbeg” and said the Republican had “invested in this country and its people”.

“This is a very important moment for President Trump personally and for the United States,” Harris said.

“As the torch of democracy passes peacefully from one leader to the next, I send him, and the people of the United States, my very best wishes,” the Fine Gael leader said. 

Echoing Martin’s comments, Harris said the Irish government “very much looks forward to cooperating with President Trump and his administration in the months and years ahead”.

He said the government would be “building on the strong, enduring, and dynamic relationship between our two countries,” which he said “draws strength from our deep, historical people-to-people connections”.

Harris pointed to “the support of the US with peace on this island, as well as our growing and mutually beneficial economic relationship”, something Martin also mentioned in his statement. 

Harris also said the US has an essential leadership role in meeting challenges including  “conflict, climate change, threats to democracy, and the need to secure economic growth and stability”.

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    Mute Lefty Tears
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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:05 PM

    Nothing but lefty bias and propaganda from the MSM, thankfully educated independent minded people no longer swallow their guff

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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:12 PM

    @Lefty Tears: Yea you sound convinced, you whingey little virgin haha

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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:16 PM

    @Lefty Tears:
    How many accounts do you have? You must get bored at some stage. Is there nothing else gioing on in your life. You should join tinder or something.

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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:16 PM

    @Freda Peeple: Good goyim

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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:23 PM

    @Paul O Connor: He has about 7 or 8, it’s amazing how much effort they put into all the emails, logging in and incessant unfunny nonsense they post etc. imagine they put all that effort into losing their virginity? and forming relationships outside the palm of their hand.

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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:32 PM

    @Freda Peeple: that’s about the 8th time you have called someone a virgin today. Something to tell us Fred?

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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:39 PM

    @Freda Peeple: Trump gonna win bigly, the lefty meltdown on here will be glorious to watch lol

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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:43 PM

    @Lefty Tears: Trump has your Incel vote anyway.

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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:48 PM

    @FoxyBoiiYT: You dream of being a minority in your own country

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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:51 PM

    @Cole Palmer: Stopped getting annoyed about someone mentioning ” a virgin 8 times ” that’s someone a virgin would do..

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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:55 PM

    @Lefty Tears: Boo-hoo, any media I don’t agree with must be left. And any media I don’t agree with is MSM.
    I cannot remember reading much positive article about Trump in the media across Europe.
    So, they’re all lefties or propaganda mouth pieces?
    You sound like someone who believes “X” and Telegram are the real news.

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    Nov 4th 2024, 10:22 PM

    @Wolfgang Bonow: nobody believes MSM anymore, it’s a dead media now

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    Nov 4th 2024, 10:23 PM

    @Wolfgang Bonow: Sky news, CNN, MSNBC, The BBC, The Times, NY Times, Atlantic etc. are all ran by the same group of people. A very small nepotistic group that make a tiny fraction of the world population. That coincidentally also are grossly over represented in Wall Street, Hollywood, NGO ownership, Top 1%, US politics, US presidential donors etc. I.e hand in literally everything. I mean if you look at Joe Bidens White House staff, 564 members, over 40% are from a this same group that make up just 1.5% of the US population.

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    Nov 4th 2024, 10:43 PM

    @Lefty Tears: ye seem to like to comment on an MSM site tho.Should we believe your comment?

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    Nov 4th 2024, 11:09 PM

    @Freda Peeple: virgin

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    Nov 5th 2024, 12:03 AM

    @Cole Palmer: You made up a whole load of bullshyte and just ran with it bahahahaha Go to bed ye melt.

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    Nov 5th 2024, 1:03 AM

    @Lefty Tears: yet here you are.

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    Nov 5th 2024, 5:32 AM

    @Lefty Tears: exactly, well said!

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    Nov 5th 2024, 7:41 AM

    @Paul O Connor: tinder? I’d say he’s more of a pornhub guy. Pam and her 4 sisters.

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    Nov 5th 2024, 9:38 AM

    @Lefty Tears: Maybe something more simple like ‘The leader is good, the leader is great’ or ‘Na na na na leader’ would suit Lefty Tears. The Irony on how much of American legislation is built on left-wing policies.

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    Nov 5th 2024, 9:44 AM

    @Lefty Tears: any channel shows unedited clip of trump talking and making a complete tit of himself: LEFT WING BIAS!!!

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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:18 PM

    I thought rté were cutting back on wasting money.

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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:17 PM

    I’ve finally decided… im up for Trump purely because he’s much more entertaining to watch..

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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:23 PM

    @Stiles: That’s trump lad is some clown but it would be funny seeing him for another 4 years. It will make no difference to Ireland because we were better off in his term of 2016-2020 than Biden – Harris term of 2020-2024.

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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:30 PM

    @Cole Palmer: Amazing that considering the Pandemic and Ukraine war , Trump inherited a strong Biden economy, but still managed to rack up the biggest national debt in history over the next 4 years of his presidency. Look it up

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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:35 PM

    @Freda Peeple: What do you mean Trump inherited a strong Biden economy? Biden was not president from 2012-2016. It was Obama. Maybe brush up on your facts before commenting.

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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:41 PM

    @Cole Palmer: Sorry meant Obama economy. And hush up? Ok I’ll hush yank

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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:45 PM

    @Stiles: So you don’t care about jot about the world or the environment. How horribly selfish

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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:47 PM

    @Freda Peeple: You’re an obedient little goyim aren’t you.

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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:48 PM

    @Cole Palmer: Go home yank

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    Nov 4th 2024, 10:23 PM

    @FoxyBoiiYT: don’t forget the children.. won’t somebody please think of the children…

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    Nov 4th 2024, 11:13 PM

    @Freda Peeple: caught lying again

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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:13 PM

    Channel 4 and Stormy Daniels- classic!

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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:31 PM

    @Kevin Kerr: prefer the ones where she rings some tradesmen to unplug her blockages meself..

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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:38 PM

    @Michale Kane: Sure maybe they’ll do an item on her career where you can indulge your fantasies

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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:53 PM

    @Kevin Kerr: already is on onlyfans lol..

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    Nov 4th 2024, 11:12 PM

    @Kevin Kerr: what a tramp. Imagine what her kids think of her.

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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:11 PM

    I know it’s important but I can’t wait till it’s over it’s everywhere I turn in Ireland

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    Nov 4th 2024, 10:55 PM

    @MN: It’s scary how the Irish media believes it can be one sided in current affairs. Loosing their integrity and credibility does not strike them as a serious matter.

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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:24 PM

    I believe Trump will win.
    Trumpy gonna get ya.

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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:05 PM

    Only trump can stop III world war

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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:26 PM

    @michal heba: Hahaha he can’t even control his bowels, I wouldn’t trust him with a fart never mind the nuclear codes

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    Nov 4th 2024, 10:51 PM

    You actually believe RTE and The Journal are major media players. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

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    Nov 5th 2024, 12:17 AM

    @John Hally: If they are based in Dublin then they automatically believe that they are major not just in Ireland but on the world stage, not surprisingly though no one believes it but only themselves.

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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:09 PM

    I love watching Republicans crying and wondering what happened when they lose elections. Now they’ve added outright denial to their list of reactions, the entertainment is superb. That’s why I always watch them on Fox.

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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:15 PM

    @Louis Jacob: I’m not one for gloating usually but I will sit in front of fox myself to watch the melt down in real time, I didn’t savour it enough when Biden beat him the previous election.

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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:17 PM

    @Freda Peeple: Hannity. Bless him.

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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:18 PM

    @Freda Peeple: You have just won the internet for today! Brilliant! Absolute cinema!

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    Nov 4th 2024, 11:14 PM

    @Freda Peeple:
    Watched a short clip of him tonight.
    He was literally feral.Growling and snarling.
    The Republican party are in real trouble if that is the best they could choose as their candidate.

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    Nov 4th 2024, 11:27 PM

    @Mary.E.: That’s true enough about Michael Martin, but what about Trump ?

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    Nov 5th 2024, 6:21 AM

    @Mary.E.: Isn’t the whole point that he isn’t their candidate? It works like this.The parties go to their donors and ask what they want . They usually say “ let us eat away and keep our money “ Inve your candidate fits that bill, they can do whatever they want with the rest. It’s one of the reasons abortion was never codified. How else can the dems distinguish themselves from the reps?

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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:41 PM

    Can’t wait until it’s all over. Couldn’t care less about American politics. Gas thing is most people on here are more worried about an election thousands miles away doesn’t effect their day to day live than they are about our own up coming election which does effect them

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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:47 PM

    @Ger Whelan: Yea but what happens in America will affect the world, they at least have genuine opposition. We don’t have anything, even outside a 3 party coalition we don’t have any credible opposition. We are voting for the craic really

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    Nov 5th 2024, 12:01 AM

    @Ger Whelan: You think the outcome of the US elections doesn’t affect us here in Ireland?? You cannot be that ignorant? Ps. Being interested in US elections doesn’t mean people here at home don’t care about our own elections. We’re capable of doing many things all at once.

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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:44 PM

    The Republican Party of now is not conservative. They are just the democrats of 15 years ago. The whole block is slowly shifting left inevitably. In 15 years, the republicans will be what the democrats are right now, and so on towards inevitable collapse. The democrats of 20 years ago would be considered right wing by todays standards. They were very tight on border control, they had taxes lower than the ultra capitalist republicans want now. Obama, Biden and Clinton all opposed gay marriage in 2008 when Obama got elected. Nowadays they would be cancelled.

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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:50 PM

    @Cole Palmer: Fascinating

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    Nov 4th 2024, 11:42 PM

    Its ok everyone… ‘lefty tears’ has assured me trump will win “bigly”… so we don’t have to bother with any media to find out the progress of it all. Lefty tears also says, the media is pushing too much Lefty rhetoric and that it’s really a masquerade of their fear of losing to the juggernaut of pi$$. So glad, lefty tears is here to steer us all clear. Lefty tears works so hard to inform us all. Thank you Lefty tears… dont go changing. thank all.of your John Doe mates too… BIGLY!! coming atcha!

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    Nov 4th 2024, 11:03 PM

    I don’t know, but I’ll probably be taking a break from all the news and avoiding all the Donal Dump sex offender fanboys until it’s all calmed down.

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    Nov 4th 2024, 11:15 PM

    @Daniel Skelton: Don’t worry they won’t be going away, they are all now supporting FG too in the comments … it is odd .. ;)

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    Nov 4th 2024, 9:53 PM

    Why ireland and UK ?
    Not UK and Rwanda

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    Nov 5th 2024, 9:08 AM

    The thing about America demanding the American companies pay their taxes in America was not just a Trump thing, Biden also demanded it, the same with the econonic war on China. Such things the Republicans and the Democrats are on the exact same page about and it ain’t good for Ireland, either way

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    Nov 5th 2024, 7:02 AM

    There could be an article here about the NBA playoffs, and around here the comments would still develop into Trump/Harris supporters throwing childish insults at each other.

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