{"id":622077,"date":"2026-09-12T04:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T04:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/622077\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T04:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T04:04:10","slug":"ireland-deploys-snipers-and-4000-police-for-trump-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/622077\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland deploys snipers and 4,000 police for Trump visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US President Donald Trump lands in Ireland under tight security on Saturday for two days of diplomacy and golf, on a trip that again blurs the lines between his presidency and personal business interests.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At least 4,000 police and other personnel, including snipers, have been mobilised for the visit, in what has been dubbed one of the biggest security operations ever mounted in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump spoke briefly to reporters on the tarmac ahead of his flight to Dublin saying \u201cwe\u2019re having a lot of meetings with European leaders and others, so it\u2019ll be a very interesting time\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Thousands of anti-Trump protesters are planning to rally in Dublin, where the US leader will hold separate meetings with Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin and President Catherine Connolly.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump is then due to fly to his luxury resort in Doonbeg, on Ireland\u2019s west coast, where some of the world\u2019s top golfers are competing in the Irish Open tournament.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Members of the Irish army perform security checks at Trump International Golf Links Ireland in Doonbeg, Ireland, on Friday. Photo: AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ea7d36ef-7a78-419a-816e-9133b50fba48_309d2240.jpg\" title=\"Members of the Irish army perform security checks at Trump International Golf Links Ireland in Doonbeg, Ireland, on Friday. Photo: AP\"\/>Members of the Irish army perform security checks at Trump International Golf Links Ireland in Doonbeg, Ireland, on Friday. Photo: AP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The golf-mad president \u2013 whose relaxed relationship with the game\u2019s rules was documented by sports journalist Rick Reilly in the 2019 book Commander in Cheat \u2013 may even award the trophy on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump lands in Ireland under tight security on Saturday for two days of diplomacy and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[70763,264114,264113,111707,969,15470,615,5148,61,60,1393,1194,1196,43,1394,9036,1713],"class_list":["post-622077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-air-force-one","tag-balmedie","tag-commander-in-cheat","tag-county-clare","tag-donald-trump","tag-doonbeg","tag-dublin","tag-european-union","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-open","tag-keir-starmer","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-rory-mcilroy","tag-scotland","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622077","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=622077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}