{"id":621985,"date":"2026-09-12T01:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T01:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/621985\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T01:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T01:40:09","slug":"donald-trump-protests-expected-as-us-president-visits-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/621985\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump: Protests expected as US President visits Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"

An avid golf fan, in July Trump said he hoped to travel to Doonbeg to watch the Irish Open.<\/p>\n

In a special video message, he told the US Embassy’s Fourth of July celebration event that he wants to see “Rory [McIlroy] and all the great players”.<\/p>\n

“There’s nothing better than Irish-American friendship and I have a beautiful place over there – it’s one of the best, most beautiful golf courses anywhere in the world,” said Trump in his message, which was broadcast on a large screen.<\/p>\n

“We have a place that’s so top and we have the Irish Open going to be there. <\/p>\n

“They call it Trump National, we sometimes use the name of the location, but it’s Trump National Golf Club, and we’re looking forward to it.<\/p>\n

“We’re going to have a tremendous celebration. I think I’m going to come over and I’m going to see it and watch. It’ll be something very, very special.”<\/p>\n

President Connolly, an outspoken Gaza activist who has been critical of the US<\/a> and said Trump is acting “like a bully” over tariffs, has come under pressure to raise issues in the Middle East during her brief meeting with the US president.<\/p>\n

Sinn F\u00e9in and a series of other parties in the Republic who backed her in the Irish presidency campaign last year have called on her to raise Gaza during her meeting with Trump.<\/p>\n

Ireland is one of the most pro-Palestinian countries in the European Union and has been criticised for its stance by Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An avid golf fan, in July Trump said he hoped to travel to Doonbeg to watch the Irish…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-621985","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\/621985","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=621985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}