World of Politics with Harry McGee

There was a time when the Irish economy wasn’t performing quite so spectacularly that column writers liked to do a home-grown version of the cascading effect of a butterfly fluttering its wings in some corners of the world.

It was always a variation on the notion that, when America sneezes, Ireland catches the flu/double pneumonia.

It’s still kind of true, although I have not heard anyone use the term in quite some time.

The recent beating of the war drums by Donald Trump reminds us how vital – and........

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