The world is facing into a "very dangerous time" because of Donald Trump's attitude, former president, Mary Robinson has said.

According to today’s Irish Independent, the Ballina native, who was UN high commissioner for human rights from 1997 to 2002, said there was "a gasp of dismay" during the US president's recent speech to the UN General Assembly.

Donald Trump told world leaders he could "totally destroy" North Korea and sought to antagonise Kim Jong-un by describing him as "Rocket Man". Mrs Robinson said that in her 20 years of attending the UN General Assembly, she has "never known a more fractious and more tension-filled United Nations". She said the US president's contribution was "terrible" and "in effect he said he could obliterate the North Korean people". There was a gasp of dismay when that happened, she explained.

Mrs Robinson cited an editorial in the 'New York Times' which claimed Mr Trump was squandering the world's trust.

The article says the most immediate consequence of reneging on the Iran deal is that it will make it "even harder, if not impossible, for the president to negotiate a peaceful resolution of the crisis over North Korea's nuclear weapons programme.

She said the US president's address to the UN came against the "humanitarian backdrop" of devastation in the Caribbean islands which have been hit by recent hurricanes.

Mrs Robinson said she had seen "a single tweet" about the plight of people in the region, including the US territory of Puerto Rico."It really is a very shocking time," she said.

Mrs Robinson also spoke about the situation facing hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar to Bangladesh. She criticised the defacto leader of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi's failure to condemn the crisis. Ms Suu Kyi is a former Nobel Prize winner and has the freedom of Dublin.

Meanwhile,  Donald Trump has  issued fresh travel restrictions on visitors to the United States from eight countries - including North Korea.

Officials say the new rules - set to go into full effect on October the 18th - will also affect people in Chad, Somalia, Syria and Venezuela. Sudan has been taken off the list.

The President has tweeted to say making America safe is his "number one priority."

While overnight, NFL owners, coaches and players in the US continued their protest against President Trump.

Both the Seattle Seahawks and Tennessee Titans last night refused to take to the field during the national anthem ahead of their clash in Nashville. A number of players from teams across the 14 games who played yesterday also took a knee during the anthem, to draw attention to racial injustice. It was after Donald Trump said any player who refused to stand should be fired or suspended.