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Biting the hand that feeds you? Calls to boycott St. Patrick’s Day at the White House

Trinity News interviews Irish government officials to explore the controversy surrounding calls for the boycott of the Taoiseach’s annual trip to the United States for St. Patrick’s Day in opposition to U.S. funding to Israel

“I think you need to be very careful about any idea of boycotting, the Irish relationship with the United States is a very long standing one, a very valuable one, on many, many dimensions.”

So said Mary Lou MacDonald in