Catherine Connolly will meet Donald Trump on Irish visit despite US President's 'mistake'
But the friendship between Connolly and Trump has been rocky with several jabs going back and forth including a gender mistake from the US President back in March
Catherine Connolly will meet Donald Trump when he visits Ireland in the next few weeks despite previous war of words between the two Presidents.
The US President will visit Áras an Uachtaráin to meet the Irish President as part of a ‘brief courtesy visit’ while he is in Ireland.
It is understood that Trump will fly into Dublin Airport after attending the 25 year commemoration of 9/11 in New York.
The US President is scheduled to travel here from September 12 to 14 spending time at his International Golf Resort in Doonbeg, where the Irish Open is taking place, as well as attending a ceremony for the new US embassy in Ballsbridge.
During a fourth of July message to the American people, Trump said: “There's nothing better than Irish-American friendship and I have a beautiful place over there. It's one of the best, most beautiful golf courses anywhere in the world.”
But the friendship between Connolly and Trump has been rocky with several jabs going back and forth including a rude insult from the US President back in March.
Connolly has been heavily critical of the US foreign policy under Trump and said around St Patrick’s Day, before the annual Taoiseach-US President meeting, that “the normalization of war can never be accepted.”
In another statement marking International Women’s Day, the President said: “What we have witnessed in recent days in the Middle East, and beyond, are not political disputes."
"They are deliberate assaults on international law, the international laws that have underpinned global peace for 80 years.
“We must name them as such, without euphemism and without equivocation.”
She has also previously described Trump as “volatile, unpredictable, acting like a bully [and] bringing inn tariffs when it suits him”.
Trump responded to these remarks during the annual St Patrick’s visit and appeared to misgender Connolly in his reply.
Referencing Connolly’s comments surrounding the situation in Iran, Trump said: “Look, he's lucky I exist.”
Trump last visited Ireland in 2019.