Trump’s show of support for Conor McGregor is making fertile ground for Ireland’s far right

Trump’s show of support for Conor McGregor is making fertile ground for Ireland’s far right

The fighter won’t be Irish president any time soon, but the Trumpocracy seems to think it can shift the country’s politics by endorsing himMiddle Ireland feels grievously insulted by the US president. On St Patrick’s Day, when the globe traditionally turns green, Donald Trump’s official guest at the White House was not the taoiseach bearing a bowl of shamrock, but an unelected stooge recently found by a civil court jury liable for the rape of a …