Ireland will be reunified – Trump

The US president has caught flak from the leader of a major unionist party who said Northern Ireland will remain part of the UK The Republic of Ireland and the UK’s Northern Ireland will eventually be reunified, US President Donald Trump has predicted.The Republic of Ireland gained independence from Britain in 1922, while six northeastern counties remained part of the UK as Northern Ireland.Speaking to reporters after a meeting with Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin in Dublin on Saturday, Trump said that he would “love to see [Ireland] unified.”“I think it would be a great feather… in everybody’s cap if that happened. It’s going to happen eventually. Might as well happen now,” the US president added, suggesting that Martin is the “right man… to get it moving.”While Trump acknowledged that the “UK will have something to say about it, obviously,” he insisted that a reunified Ireland “would be a great thing.”Trump also said he and the Irish prime minister are “friends” and described relations between Washington and Dublin as being better than ever before.Speaking at the US ambassador’s residence later in the day, Trump acknowledged that his remarks could prove controversial, concedi...