Facing Donald Trump’s cranky litany of complaints, Micheál Martin had two choicesAt the Oval Office, Micheál Martin drew on his skills of diplomacy to delicately defend Keir Starmer and EuropeTue Mar 17 2026 - 18:41
Micheál Martin, master of platitudes, steps into Trump’s Oval Office bear pitImmigration, tariffs, the Irish-US trade imbalance and State’s reputation as pro-Palestinian could derail diplomatic setpiece Tue Mar 17 2026 - 06:00
A curiously timeless German town on the Missouri weighs its past - and its futureA Rhineland dream transplanted to the Midwest, Hermann offers European architecture, easygoing days and a deep sense of placeSun Mar 15 2026 - 07:00
Trump presses Republicans to radically alter voting rules before midterm electionsIn addition to prosecuting a war, the US president has spent the week demanding swift passage of legislation that could reshape US voting rulesFri Mar 13 2026 - 07:51
A vintage Trump performance in America’s heartland: Electoral fraud, Obama-bashing, ‘Newscum’With an eye on the midterm elections, the US president is trying to convince his voting base – and perhaps himself – that everything is still okayThu Mar 12 2026 - 06:53
The more Donald Trump spoke, the less his Iran plan seemed clearEnigmatic and ambivalent, the US president gave a TV interview in which he offered few clues as to what might happen next with ‘this excursion’ in the Middle EastTue Mar 10 2026 - 07:08
Keith Duggan’s US road trip: In the ruins of coal country, a Virginia town reinvents itselfAbingdon has rebuilt itself through theatre, heritage and a renewed sense of community — a rare bright spot in a battered regionSun Mar 08 2026 - 06:20
Kristi Noem falls from grace after disastrous handling of Trump’s immigration policy Previously the US secretary of homeland security, now she’s the first big Trump cabinet casualtyFri Mar 06 2026 - 07:11
James Talarico wins Democrat race in Texas amid voting chaos and chicanery claimsA change to voting procedures in Democrat Jasmine Crockett’s stronghold led to voter confusion and a court intervention to keep voting stations openWed Mar 04 2026 - 15:59
Iran sends drones and missiles across the Gulf as up to 2,000 Irish seek route homeGovernment working to finalise charter flight from Oman while confusion over Trump’s strategy continuesTue Mar 03 2026 - 23:35
US and Israel continue assault on Iran as war spreads across the GulfHundreds reportedly killed across region as Donald Trump says military operations could last ‘four to five weeks’Mon Mar 02 2026 - 23:48
Americans left asking ‘what next’ after Trump leads country into warUS president had been warned air raids on Iranian leader unlikely to be successfulMon Mar 02 2026 - 06:00
Trump, the self-declared president of peace, goes to war seeking regime changeIranian-American jubilation at the death of Iran’s brutal supreme leader tempered by uncertainty over the country’s trajectorySun Mar 01 2026 - 07:46
Texas’s most explosive Senate race in decades could reshape politics in Lone Star State Bruising attack ads, spiralling spending and an energised Democratic field collide in a primary that could reshape politics in the Lone Star StateSun Mar 01 2026 - 06:30
Keith Duggan’s journey through America: The farther west you go the less real Trump becomesUS250: the country is in the grip of a long winter and an extended moment of uncertaintySat Feb 28 2026 - 06:00
Clintons confront another chapter of investigation and accusation in Epstein inquiryBill Clinton will need to answer for own links on Friday after wife used platform to turn focus to RepublicansFri Feb 27 2026 - 19:00
Donald Trump hails US economy, rounds on Democrats in longest state of the union addressPresident’s speech lasting one hour and 48 minutes sought to reinvigorate supporters in Republican heartland statesWed Feb 25 2026 - 06:40
‘I actually have a tonne of substance’: The congresswoman aiming to upset Trump again in Texas The congresswoman with a series of spectacular political take-downs to her name is bidding to become the first Democrat in nearly 40 years to reach the US Senate through TexasTue Feb 24 2026 - 07:49
‘Fight the system. Not the neighbour’: Democrat James Talarico preaches third way in TexasSeminarian running for Senate takes his radical Christian love and anti‑establishment message to conservative LubbockMon Feb 23 2026 - 07:25
Irish grandmother detained by Ice: ‘If I am the worst of the worst then America has a bigger problem than it thinks’Donna Hughes Brown was detained by Ice officials at Chicago airport when returning home from Ireland last July. Now she has a list of people she is fighting forSat Feb 21 2026 - 06:00
‘They’re real, but I haven’t seen ‘em’: Obama puts the question of aliens on Trump’s deskBarack Obama’s seemingly noncommittal view on the matter has taken on a life of its ownSat Feb 21 2026 - 05:51
Trump announces new 10% global tariff, as he criticises US supreme court members over rulingCourt ruling striking down tariffs jeopardises key power in delivering White House economic planFri Feb 20 2026 - 20:48
Nobody does it better. Donald Trump goes back on the roadUS president pushes ‘made in America’ message, but data shows loss of 80,000 manufacturing jobs in past year Fri Feb 20 2026 - 08:06
Pulled Stephen Colbert segment turns Texas Senate race into unholy hot messDemocratic rising star James Talarico’s appearance on Colbert’s show was dropped but then drew more than five million viewers on YouTubeWed Feb 18 2026 - 10:52
‘I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats’: The long, strange trip of Robert Kennedy JrFrom fringe protest candidate to Trump’s health secretary, RFK’s unlikely survival story is pure American surrealismSat Feb 14 2026 - 06:00
Georgia senator Jon Ossoff delivers a line that could be central to Democrats’ fightback against TrumpOssoff has skilfully walked the tightrope of thriving as a liberal in a conservative state as he seeks Senate re-electionFri Feb 13 2026 - 07:15
Dublin woman Gail Slater exits Trump administration less than a year after appointmentFormer anti-trust chief departs after months of internal acrimony over light-touch regulationThu Feb 12 2026 - 21:06
‘This screams cover-up’: Pam Bondi faces fury over handling of Epstein filesKey committee hears US attorney general accused of ‘incompetence’ and ‘jaded cruelty’ over abuse survivorsWed Feb 11 2026 - 19:36
Irishman detained in Texas overstayed 90-day visitor’s visa issued in 2009Texas court ruled against Seamus Culleton despite his being married to a US citizen and being a green card applicantWed Feb 11 2026 - 06:36
‘He intends to subvert the elections’: Pressure grows on Donald TrumpAs criticism of the US president increases, so do warnings about how he could react, especially when it comes to November’s midtermsMon Feb 09 2026 - 06:52
The Washington Post’s darkest momentThe newspaper once brought down a president. Now, under Jeff Bezos, it is being dismantled from withinSat Feb 07 2026 - 07:09
Donald Trump’s hunger for monuments is reshaping WashingtonUS president orders two-year closure of the Kennedy Center – the latest casualty in his architectural reimagining of the capital Fri Feb 06 2026 - 06:11
McEntee signals openness to US military equipment as part of Ireland’s defence agenda Minister stresses importance of resolving bilateral differences during Washington trip Thu Feb 05 2026 - 20:33
Latest Epstein file dump deepens America’s exhaustion syndromeThe US is far too battered to fully absorb what the Epstein files have to say about the most powerful tiers of societyWed Feb 04 2026 - 07:39
‘The government is lying to us’: Fear and resistance grip Minneapolis as families go into hidingA week after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, protesters fill the streets while immigrant communities stay homeSun Feb 01 2026 - 09:26
On the ground in Minneapolis: ‘Ice agents are like this invisible goon squad’ Two civilians have been shot dead but ordinary Americans - many from the very demographic that Trumpian’s ideology purports to uplift - continue to oppose the forces sent into their city by the presidentFri Jan 30 2026 - 07:21
Trump climbdown on Alex Pretti killing catches Homeland Security chief and Maga off guardPresident’s sudden switch of tone after latest killing by immigration agents in Minneapolis has exposed Republican Party cracks Wed Jan 28 2026 - 07:22
Trump sends ‘border tsar’ Tom Homan to Minnesota following Ice shooting State governor Tim Walz speaks to Donald Trump as US president says White House will ‘review everything’Mon Jan 26 2026 - 20:41
Minneapolis shooting: Trump says he is on a ‘similar wavelength’ with Minnesota governorRepublican senators join calls for fuller investigation Mon Jan 26 2026 - 15:09
Minneapolis shooting deepens US immigration crisis as federal accounts are challengedVideo evidence, political rhetoric and competing narratives collide after the death of Alex PrettiSun Jan 25 2026 - 09:45
Historic ice storm set to grip the US in more ways than one Gargantuan weather event seems like a providential opening to the country’s 250th year and a bleak political atmosphere that feels inescapable Sat Jan 24 2026 - 05:53
Rupture or kerfuffle? Trump’s display in the mad theatre of Davos has European heads in a spinIt may be premature to think the US-European bond has been severed by a president with a short attention span and plummeting domestic supportFri Jan 23 2026 - 06:38
Trump and Greenland: Nobody knows how far he will go with thisPresident uses rambling press briefing to vent his frustration at lack of public praise and approval for his year of accomplishmentWed Jan 21 2026 - 08:02
Keith Duggan: This might be Donald Trump’s last year as the only relevant player on stageThe US president is now 12 months into his second term, but this may be his last year as the only relevant player on stageTue Jan 20 2026 - 07:36
‘It’s all very fragile’: Trump’s second year opens with chaos at home and abroad Epstein’s shadow, street violence and foreign gambits haunt Trump’s AmericaFri Jan 16 2026 - 07:15
Jerome Powell stands his ground amid Trump’s attack on Federal Reserve Republican lawmakers break ranks with Trump, affirming Fed chair’s leadership and independence Tue Jan 13 2026 - 16:45
A €120 dinner for two in Beijing, Berlin, Damascus and Odesa? Our correspondents couldn’t spend their moneyFrom shrimp skin in Beijing to chicken livers in Syria and cherry schnapps in Berlin, the quality and value available in other countries are strikingSat Jan 03 2026 - 05:00
CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan: ‘It’s an absolute dream to travel in the US’January will mark the 10th anniversary of the Kerry reporter’s decision to move from Dublin to New York, and five years since his reporting on the Capitol Hill riotsSun Dec 28 2025 - 06:00
What’s the best meal Keith Duggan can get for €120 in Washington?Our Washington correspondent likes to keep things real with a meal at his favourite bookstoreSun Dec 28 2025 - 05:00
‘He’s supposed to be president’: Minneapolis reacts to Trump comments After a tough few years, Minneapolis was in the news again when Donald Trump launched a savage verbal attack on the Somali communitySat Dec 20 2025 - 06:00
