However, obtaining the visa might not have been overly challenging for Melania, suggests Susan McFadden, a specialist US visa attorney at Gudeon and McFadden law firm, in a conversation with the BBC.

Director Lorraine Barry was joined by McFadden with his mother Mairead and his daughter Lilly, Susan McFadden, and her husband Anthony Byrne, Fair City actor George McMahon and his wife Rachel Smith.