{"id":529655,"date":"2026-07-02T16:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/529655\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T16:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:20:10","slug":"trump-considers-attending-irish-open-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/529655\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump considers attending Irish Open in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has said he is thinking about visiting Ireland for the Irish Open golf tournament this autumn.<\/p>\n<p>Around 70,000 people are expected to attend this year&#8217;s tournament at the Trump International Golf Links in Doonbeg in Co Clare from 10 to 13 September.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a pre-recorded video that was played during the US ambassador&#8217;s 4 July party in Dublin, President Trump praised the hotel and golf course.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s one of the best most beautiful golf courses anywhere in the world. I won&#8217;t mention its name, but maybe I should actually.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have the Irish Open going to be there. We&#8217;re going to have a tremendous celebration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think I&#8217;m going to come over and I&#8217;m going to see it. We&#8217;re going to watch Rory [McIlroy] and all the great players and it&#8217;ll be something very, very special,&#8221; President Trump said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/00122a52-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nThe Irish Open will be held at Trump International Golf Links in Doonbeg in Co Clare in September<\/p>\n<p>The US president also extended his warmest greeting to the Taoiseach, calling him a &#8220;fantastic guy&#8221; who he has gotten to know really well.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation has been growing that the US president would attend the event as he previously indicated that he was considering a visit.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump has visited the golf resort a number of times since the Trump Organisation acquired the property in Co Clare in 2014, including on an official trip to Ireland during his first presidential term in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Trump: &#8216;I think I&#8217;m going to come over and I&#8217;m going to see it&#8217;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">We were honored to have <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/POTUS\" rel=\"nofollow\">@POTUS<\/a> send a special message to the people of Ireland for America&#8217;s 250th birthday. \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddea <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lmPuLahpkg\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/lmPuLahpkg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ambassador Edward Walsh (@USAmbIreland) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/USAmbIreland\/status\/2072658296507388130\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 2, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On St Patrick\u2019s Day, he told RT\u00c9 News that he hoped to attend the Irish Open at Doonbeg and that it would be an honour to be there.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Trump International Golf Resort in Doonbeg said it had not received confirmation that the US president would attend the event in September.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a media briefing in June, General Manager Joe Russell said: &#8220;We have no confirmation that he is coming.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know that he wants to come, but no confirmation yet that he will be here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are 784 people living in Doonbeg according to the latest census, and 305 people work in the Trump International resort during peak season.<\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump has said he is thinking about visiting Ireland for the Irish Open golf tournament&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-529655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529655","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=529655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}