Guido has some sympathy for the British Foreign Secretary over her mispronunciation of the Irish Prime MInister’s title as “tea-sock”. If his daughters and wife are being particularly exclusionary they will talk in Irish over the breakfast table and mock any attempt by him to join in. It is headline news in the Irish press that Liz Truss mispronounced Taoiseach. Further evidence to feed the national meme that the British don’t understand Ireland…
It should sound like “tee shuhk”, though there are regional variations. Here is some guidance:
Incidentally Liz, if you do get to first name terms when you meet the Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, do be careful. His name is pronounced “mee-hole”. Honestly…
Speaking on RTE News At One this afternoon, Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin slapped down Brussels for “counterproductive” sabre rattling vaccine nationalism:
“If you take the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine, 280 materials go into making the Pfizer vaccine. There are 86 suppliers supply those materials from 19 countries around the world. You start putting up barriers, other countries may follow suit in terms of those vital raw materials that are required to make the vaccine.”
“These are not EU vaccines. These are vaccines paid for by other countries that are manufactured in Europe.”
Irish PM Micheál Martin
“The sense I would have is that given the progress that has been made, that I think a deal is more likely than less likely.”
