US President Donald Trump has arrived for a two-day visit to Ireland. He was greeted by Tánaiste (Irish deputy prime minister) Simon Harris and Irish Foreign Minister Helen McEntee at Dublin Airport on Saturday morning. Trump will hold a courtesy call with Irish President Catherine Connolly as well as a bilateral meeting with Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheál Martin.
He will also attend events at the US Ambassador to Ireland Ed Walsh's residence in Dublin's Phoenix Park. Trump will then attend the Amgen Irish Open golf tournament which is taking place at the Trump International Golf Links and Hotel Doonbeg in County Clare, which he owns. Irish authorities have been planning for Trump's visit for months in what will be one of the biggest security operations in the history of the state.
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To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. On Friday night Trump boarded Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, near the US capital Washington DC, and flew out for his trip to Ireland. He visited the Republic in 2019, when he spent time at his golf course, but he also visited in 2023.
Thousands of people are expected at protests in Dublin and a protest will also be held in Doonbeg. A small number of crowd control barriers are beside the American Embassy in central Dublin but President Trump is not scheduled to be anywhere near the building. His sons Eric and Donald Trump Junior are expected to accompany Trump in Doonbeg.
"We will have discussions with the president and there will be a reception in the American Embassy but I think he's also very anxious to get to Doonbeg and watch the Irish Open," Martin told the BBC's Borderlands podcast this week. In a statement issued on Friday night in advance of Trump's arrival, Martin said: "I look forward to welcoming President Trump to Ireland and to discussing the many issues of mutual interest and reaffirming the strong economic, cultural and people-to-people ties between Ireland and the United States." "His visit comes during a remarkable sporting summer for Ireland, and the United States and this weekend's Irish Open at Trump International Doonbeg will be a fitting conclusion to an outstanding season of sport, and I hope we will see an Irish winner lifting the trophy on Sunday." An avid golf fan, in July Trump said he hoped to travel to Doonbeg to watch the Irish Open. 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".
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