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Beneath the surface, this deliberately anodyne event, built around the uncontroversial fact that Ireland and the U.S. are closely tied by ancestry, history, culture and trade, was about lots of other stuff too.

A sheaf of proposals to raise costs for Obamacare enrollees comes under the anodyne heading, “Reimagining the Affordable Care Act.”

Nevertheless this geographically misplaced match, with the most anodyne of sponsor-less names, does have a value that might help nudge Europe to a rare away win next September.

The lobby, with its collection of elevators, scowling security guards and small glass turnstiles, is cold and anodyne.

Egypt, too, offered a respectful if somewhat anodyne assessment.