{"id":309753,"date":"2026-01-29T12:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T12:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/309753\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T12:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T12:39:11","slug":"govt-not-compromising-values-with-us-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/309753\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt not compromising values with US engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin has told the D\u00e1il that the Government has not compromised its values in its engagement with the US.<\/p>\n<p>He cited the example of Ireland&#8217;s position on the Middle East saying there had been &#8220;significant pushback&#8221; to it.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Martin said Ireland was recognised around the world in asserting its principled position.<\/p>\n<p>He added that he agreed with the comments of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at Davos on the application of &#8220;principle and pragmatism&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He was responding to Solidarity TD Ruth Coppinger who again called on the Taoiseach not to visit President Trump in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>She suggested that the Government&#8217;s economic policy was so reliant on foreign direct investment that it was &#8220;morally bankrupt&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Coppinger also said that Ice agents were acting like a &#8220;modern Gestapo&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin has told the D\u00e1il that the Government has not compromised its values in its engagement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-309753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-world","21":"tag-world-news","22":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115978434217335596","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}