Donald Trump has announced that his ambassador to Ireland will be head of a New Jersey based construction firm Edward Walsh.
“He heads up a construction company called the Walsh Group, they’re a national construction and services company,” he said.“We can make a number of assumptions based on what we know about him – that Donald Trump most likely met him in this New Jersey property scene that he grew up in and made his millions in and made his name in as well.
“The second name Walsh being in New York, construction in New Jersey, most likely came over and he's a couple of generations removed from maybe his forefathers who worked their way up,” he said. “We know he has a college education – he went to Villanova – and we know that he has been involved in the Republican party.
“Potentially the relationship between the Áras, the US ambassador in the Phoenix Park and Government buildings could be quite frosty – but look, overall, the Government has always understood that we need to have a relationship with the United States.
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