Unfriendly Ireland

Ireland may have been voted the 8220;friendliest country in the world8221; by Lonely Planet, but what was a touch insensitive and definitely bad diplomacy, was Irish authorities here trying to make capital of it by running loud advertisements across India declaring that the 8220;friendliest country8230; welcomes you8221; just after Dublin left no stone unturned to quell India8217;s nuclear energy ambitions. Surely if there is one place where the friendliest country slogan is not going to work it is India, where wounds from the backstab are still fresh. Let us not forget, the Irish had promised not to stand in the way at the Nuclear Suppliers Group, just like China and in a quite a similar fashion did just the opposite.