White House visit in the bag, but Harris might be unhappy Sanchez said what he didn’t this week [Video]

IN A WEEK where news of an alleged spy in Leinster House dominated headlines, it was a mere coincidence that Dupont Circle was the Taoiseach’s home-away-from-home while in Washington DC over the last couple of days.

If you’re a fan of the spy TV drama ‘The Americans’, Dupont Circle might sound familiar.

It is the neighbourhood where the main characters in the Cold War period drama, Philip and Elizabeth Jennings, two Soviet KGB intelligence officers posing as an American married couple, set up their front business, ‘Dupont Circle Travel Agency’. 

When asked about the story of the alleged Russian spy, the Taoiseach said he had to be careful what he said, for national security reasons, but he said Ireland isn’t immune from bad actors seeking to influence and distort public discourse.

But public discourse can become negative all by itself, as it did around the debate about the Taoiseach’s visit …