‘We need to hold our nerve’ amid Trump presidency, says Micheál Martin

Tánaiste Micheál Martin has said Ireland needs to “hold our nerve” and not overreact as Donald Trump becomes US president.

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.

It has also been suggested that the incoming Trump administration could change its corporation tax system and/or impose tariffs in ways that could affect the Irish economy.

“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.

Taoiseach Simon Harris said that territorial sovereignty was something the EU takes “very seriously”.

“Whether comments come from the east or the west, the importance of territorial independence (and) sovereignty is something very serious,” the Taoiseach said.

Mr Harris…