Ambassador: US will ‘heal its divisions’ despite Trump win

The US has come out of divisive periods before, Kevin O'Malley said

Kevin O’Malley, outgoing US ambassador Picture: Fergal Phillips

The outgoing United States ambassador to Ireland has said his country “will find a way” to heal its divisions in the wake of the election of Donald Trump as president.

Kevin O’Malley, who will return to the US next week following Trump’s inauguration, toldThe Sunday Business Post that he was glad he was in Ireland during the presidential election campaign. “I was blessed in that I didn’t have to hear or see what ...