When two figures who have publicly clashed are brought together by the ancient obligations of protocol, the room they enter becomes a mirror for a nation's deeper tensions. Ireland's President Catherine Connolly, a longtime critic of Donald Trump's policies, is bound by ceremony to receive him at the presidential residence in Dublin during his golf-centered visit — a meeting neither sought but neither can avoid. The Irish government watches with quiet dread, knowing that the economy's dependence on American technology firms gives Trump a lever he has already shown willingness to pull. What unf