Enda Brady: UK correspondent on Donald Trump accusing Ireland of 'stealing' US companies in meeting with taoiseach

US President Trump has accused Ireland of stealing the US pharmaceutical industry and the tax revenue that he believes should have been paid to the US.

Irish premier Micheál Martin recently paid a visit to the White House to meet with Trump.

UK correspondent Enda Brady explained that Ireland’s historical low-tax policies have helped lure many US companies over - and the nation would collapse without the extra support.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the Brady is a UK correspondent tonight in the
Good Evening.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hey Ryan, great to speak to you you two.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Now, there's a big debate going on in the UK
at the moment. This should criminals be forced to go
to court and hear the impact of what their crimes
have been on families and victims and stuff, or should
they be able to tune in remotely or not tune
in at all.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yeah, So this all has happened this week, the debate
because yet again we've seen another high profile court case
end with the defendant convicted and deciding that he doesn't
want to leave his cell to hear the victim impact statements. Now,
at the end of each court case, the victim's family
are allowed attend court and read out exactly what this

(00:42):
person has done to their family and how it has
left them feeling forever. So it's all to do with
a guy called Kyle Clifford. He is known as the
Crossbowl Killer. For anyone who hasn't followed the case, it
was summer of last year. He was dumped by his
girlfriend Louise Hunt, and thirteen days later he bought a
crossbow he stabbed her mother to death in the family home.

(01:04):
He shot her with the crossbow and raped her, and
he shot her sister, murdered her sister as well with
the crossbow. So three members of that family wiped out
by this guy. He'd been online the night before watching
Andrew tape videos. So you can you know this is
the mentality of this guy, absolutely heenous crime. Now, John
Hunt is the father of the family. He is the

(01:25):
father of Louise and his other daughter who was murdered,
and he lost his wife in this as well. So
John Hunt went to court to read the victim impact
statement and Clifford refused to come out of the cell.
So John Hunt, his words will haunt this guy forever ever.
He said, I can hear the screams of hell, Kyle.
They're waiting for you. They will be rolling out the

(01:47):
red carpet. That was the concluding paragraph of John Hunt's
victim impact statement. So big, big talking point here.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yeah, it sounds like it is too. Now this biledal
between the Irish and the Americans. The Trump said, you know,
you're doing some things with text we don't like. But
they've kind of come dodged a bullet.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yes, it was amazing, really so We're quite concerned about
President Trump because our entire economy depends on the United States,
and just for people who haven't followed what Ireland has
done in recent years. We've reduced corporation tax down to
twelve and a half percent. We're the only English speaking
country in the European Union, and American pharmaceutical and tech

(02:29):
companies have piled into Ireland. They're employing a lot of
people and they're crucially paying all of their taxes into Ireland.
So the biggest tax payer every year in Ireland is
actually Apple. Now Trump has seen the figures, he's seen
the massive surplus in trade that basically, you know, take

(02:50):
America out of the equation and we're in recession. I
think there was a lot of apprehension going into the
Oval Office for this meeting between our Tea Shock or
Prime Minister Mehome and President Trump. It's an annual thing
to mark Saint Patrick's weekend. The t Shock basically goes
to Washington, d c. And presents whoever the president is
with a bowl of shamrock. It's been going on for

(03:12):
over a century. Trump, we know, has a golf course
in the West of Ireland, but incredibly the reporters in
the room all asked so many different questions. He didn't
really settle his fire and his ire on Ireland. So
the feeling is that our tea shock, our Prime Minister
Mihil Martin has kind of dodged a bullet and got

(03:33):
out of the White House in one piece. And you know,
having seen what Zelenski had done to him, there was
a lot of worry that Trump might decide to dismantle
the Irish economy.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Thank goodness to you, then quietly, quietly, quietly, curly and
then run for the door. Hey, thanks, thanks Inder, great
to have you on as always in the Bradi, a
UK correspondent with.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
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