JD Vance

Taoiseach Micheál Martin’s momentous meeting with US president Donald Trump

Martin expected to stress mutually beneficial trade relations between Ireland the United States

Trump surrounds himself with people who express strong opinions on trade deficits and Ireland’s economy

The Oval Office 2025 has become a fascinating and volatile court, so the Taoiseach might expect one or two curveballs coming his way

Even if this year’s White House visit goes well, Trump could still accept the shamrock bowl then promptly announce 25 per cent tariffs on Irish imports

Europe is now seeking to transform itself into a military power. The sooner we grasp this in Ireland, the better

Mr McGrath says European Commission is looking at setting up a ‘democracy shield’ to deal with political misinformation and disinformation

Planet Business: Bernard Looney gets a new gig, Abrdn relocates its missing vowels and Justin Trudeau gets angry

Much attention has focused on tariffs, but it’s increasingly clear that trust – or the lack of it – is an even bigger issue for many

It has been an unedifying spectacle to watch a string of international leaders pay homage to the new president,

Have a fanfare sound as you unfurl some paper decorated with squiggles. Tell him it is an invitation written in ancient Ogham from the Little People inviting him to visit the land of the leprechauns

Ukrainian president described White House meeting as ‘regrettable’ and proposed first steps to peace

Vice president was understood by some in London and Paris to have disrespected their soldiers

Watching the US president is like ‘watching a car crash over and over and over’, says director James Cameron. And yet much of the current security crisis had, until Friday, been weirdly ignorable for other reasons

Some Ukrainians say Zelenskiy should not have become frustrated in Oval Office, others think he was intentionally goaded

Trump and Vance’s bullying of Zelenskiy in the Oval Office was a sickening spectacle that looked like a setup

US vice-president’s starring role in clash between Trump and Zelenskiy may mark collapse of postwar alliance

Trump tells Zelenskiy to ‘make a deal or we are out’ as he pushes for rapprochement with Russia

A central goal of Trump’s henchmen is to defang the EU’s regulatory power for the benefit of American Big Tech

Many fund managers now expect Europe to be the best-performing stock market globally this year

US president stood for election on a pro-growth platform but with ostensibly anti-growth policies

On Sunday, 59.2 million German voters go to the polls at a time of unprecedented domestic and international tensions

Merrion Street’s promised “charm offensive” will have as much traction as water on a duck’s back in the madness of the court of King Trump

Bernard Jackman correction, confusion around a Love/Hate revival and Michael O’Leary’s former Russian tenants

Asian leaders do not seem minded to stand by as the global power balance looks set for big changes

Switching from one channel to the other underlines the seismic drift between competing ideologies

Approach of new Trump administration a necessary ‘cold shower’ for EU, says Czech president

Wang Yi will travel to Dublin after telling summit European countries must have role in Ukraine talks

Ukrainian president said draft deal failed to protect his country’s interests and offered no specific security guarantees

Czech president says European countries cannot be excluded from Ukraine ceasefire talks if they are to take more responsibility for security

Munich Security Conference had expected to hear Trump’s plans for ending the war in Ukraine

US vice-president JD Vance says European leaders ‘running in fear of your own voters’

At a summit in Paris, the EU pledges to start putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to artificial intelligence

US Vice-President JD Vance criticises threat of ‘excessive regulation’ of artificial intelligence at Paris summit

Unthinkable: Ireland should talk more about Jesus – and I say that as an atheist

It’s also possible that the US president’s release of even the most violent insurrectionists could come back to bite him

Executive order pardoning January 6th Capitol rioters is the most eye-catching of a day of sweeping legislative action

Meta will now allow ‘insulting language when discussing transgender rights, immigration or homosexuality’, and no longer bans describing women as ‘property’ or ‘household objects’

Worldview: With his economic and policy goals often irreconcilable, how these economic and international contradictions play out will determine whether the US president-elect can claim success

Gail Slater nominated as assistant attorney general for antitrust division at US department of justice