As I sat down with New Zealand’s Ambassador to Ireland Brad Burgess before the Covid-19 lockdown, he was preparing to welcome his country’s Minister of State for Trade and Export Growth Damien O’Connor to launch the New Zealand business network in Ireland. The event has since been postponed because of the pandemic, but Burgess still has great hopes for the new forum intended to connect Kiwi and Irish companies. This, he says, and the intensification of ministerial visits between the two nations both illustrate closer ties since they opened mutual embassies at the end of 2018. “It really aligns with…

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