President's 'anti-Brit' slur over peace deal

JOE Biden has said he came to Ireland last month to “make sure the Brits don’t screw around” with the Good Friday Agreement

- FERGHAL BLANEY

The US President made his latest crude remark, which could be considered anti-British, at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in New York on Wednesday.

He said: “I got to go back to Ireland for the, for the, the Irish Accords, to make sure they weren’t… the Brits didn’t screw around and Northern Ireland didn’t walk away from their commitments.”