Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

The Taoiseach will have been conscious of the commentaries on Ireland published in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal shortly before his visit. Was an attempt made to arrange a briefing or interviews for these two newspapers? Was any effort made to use the occasion of his visit to the United States to influence these two highly influential newspapers about their take on Ireland?

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