“It is a pleasure to be with the Taoiseach,” Mayor Mamdani told reporters. “We also not only have celebrated Cork and Cork FC, but now we are going to get on the Subway."

Taoiseach holds talks with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican and Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome

On a wet Friday in Cork city, motorists in Blackpool and traders in a quiet English Market offered their opinions on the fuel protests