Mr Martin was speaking after the US president-elect refused to rule out military action or economic coercion to seize control of Greenland or the Panama Canal trade route
Tánaiste Micheál Martin has said Ireland needs to “hold our nerve” and not overreact as Donald Trump becomes US president.
READ MORE: Taoiseach and Tanáiste praise Met Eireann response during cold snap as end of 'severe weather phase' nears“We need to just take it one step at a time. I don’t think we need to overreact in the initial days and weeks and months ahead. I think we need to hold our nerve,” Mr Martin said at the BT Young Scientist exhibition on Thursday.
“I wish him well as he prepares to take up office. I had a good conversation with him on the phone in recent weeks, and Ireland stands ready to engage constructively with the new US administration. I would make this point that the US and the EU, I think, had interdependencies before the US presidential election. I think those interdependencies exist after the US presidential election. And what we must do now at an EU level and at an Irish level is find ways of engaging.
“It’s been a very successful, sustained achievement by Ireland to have attracted world-class companies, and part of the reason for that is they do well in Ireland,” Mr Martin said.
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