Don’t be fooled by the show put on around St Patrick’s Day – all is not well between Ireland and the Trump administration

Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, said Ireland ‘fell into a vat of Guinness’ over the Occupied Territories Bill. Photo: Reuters

Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, said Ireland ‘fell into a vat of Guinness’ over the Occupied Territories Bill. Photo: Reuters

How gauche of the US ambassador to Israel to suggest the Irish have fallen into “a vat of Guinness”.

If Mike Huckabee is going to propagate the drunken Irish trope, he can at least keep up with the modern version of “diplomatic intoxication”.