Richard Curran: Focus on home-grown firms can help shield us from Trump ‘shotgun’ shocks

Ireland must tread carefully by keeping US trade doors open while looking elsewhere to spread the risk

US president Donald Trump speaks to a gathering of top US military commanders in Virginia. Photo: AP

Ireland would be mad to steer our economy clear of the United States because of what its president Donald Trump has done. But we must accept that in future, the US may want to steer clear of us.

There are two big over-arching theories about what will happen to the US in the coming years. One scenario says that after the turbulence and destructiveness of the Trump years, the US will reset back to some form of consistent, predictable approach to diplomacy and trade. It won’t be quite business as usua

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