Protesting against Trump’s visit is reckless showboating

Massive marches and a secondhand hot-air balloon only risk antagonising a politician who Ireland badly needs onside

Some years ago, driving early one foggy October morning down a minor road in Belgium, a vast graveyard emerged in front of me. Thousands of small white headstones stretched into the distance until they disappeared in the fog. Finally, as I rounded a bend, I saw the huge marble archway entrance, the flags on flagpoles, the lines of parked cars and tour buses. It was one of the major US war cemeteries, where ...