{"id":384187,"date":"2026-04-06T04:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/384187\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T04:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:54:14","slug":"senan-molony-ireland-faces-major-tourism-hit-as-trumps-war-means-americans-wont-travel-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/384187\/","title":{"rendered":"Senan Molony: Ireland faces major tourism hit as Trump\u2019s war means Americans won\u2019t travel abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Much-heralded Vat reduction for hospitality sector will mean very little if US visitors don\u2019t turn up\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Donald Trump may have praised his Doonbeg golf course as one of the best, but it may suffer as a resut of his war in Iran. Photo: PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/dba748dc-1388-4ba6-b87c-69ef0894b878.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Donald Trump may have praised his Doonbeg golf course as one of the best, but it may suffer as a resut of his war in Iran. Photo: PA<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Trump\u2019s war is affecting this country and this domestic economy, as many Irish people are already cruelly experiencing through higher fuel prices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But there will be waves of attacks to come on the home front, albeit thankfully only on our pockets, and not in terms of spilt blood and blitzed homes where the war is taking place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Much-heralded Vat reduction for hospitality sector will mean very little if US visitors don\u2019t turn up Donald Trump&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[969,61,11829,60,43,2042,812],"class_list":{"0":"post-384187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-senan-molony","14":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}