Thank you for downloading this edition of From Our Own Correspondent, which was broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturday, the 12th of November 2016.

And following the death of Leonard Cohen, we hope you like our imperfect offering, which of course is introduced by

Kate Hady.

Hello, today there's plenty of uncertainty around so we'll do what we can to let the light in.

Not surprisingly they're worried in Mexico about Donald Trump's victory, but at least they're

also scoffing at his choice of Mexican food. In Somalia, it's election time at last.

Our correspondent says they're engaged in, well, a special kind of democracy. Somewhere in the raucous noise of the American

election there was a libertarian candidate. He clearly didn't win so perhaps he

should now focus his attention on a sliver of land between Croatia and Serbia.

And remember being a student and interrailing, time to do it again across borderless Europe, tasting the food and experiencing

unity as well as division.

To Ireland first, the T-Shock Ende Kenny was quick to get on the phone to congratulate Donald Trump after his

election victory and he says he secured the traditional St Patrick's Day

invitation to the White House. Mr Kenny had criticized Donald Trump's campaigning, saying it was racist and

dangerous. Now he's apparently keen to build bridges with the President-elect. Last time

Mr. Trump visited the Emerald Isle, he was given the red carpet

treatment and Vincent Woods explains why many people there are hoping President Trump will remember

that warm welcome.

There was a cold wind in Dublin.

Maybe it's blowing in from America, I suggested to the young Polish worker selling wild Atlantic salmon in my local fish shop near Constitution Hill.

Yeah, he said, we're calling it the Trump wind.

Whatever the weather, the political temperature has changed in Ireland in the wake of

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