A GB News correspondent has claimed that there were no Catholics in the United States until 1801, prompting backlash. Dougie Beattie, Northern Ireland reporter for the channel, was responding to US President Donald Trump’s remarks that he would “love to see” a united Ireland.
Speaking beside the Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin during his visit to Dublin, Trump said that he did not “want to cause any problems”, but that he wished to see the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland unified.
“I think it would be a great feather in everybody’s cap if that happened. You know what? The way I look at it, it’s going to happen eventually. It may as well happen now,” he said.
