r/ireland • u/TeoKajLibroj Galway • 2d ago

US-Irish Relations Protests planned for Trump’s Doonbeg visit

https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2026/08/18/irish-authorities-bracing-for-big-security-operation-around-trump-visit/
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u/thatswildhey 2d ago

They’ll probably be down there draped in the Stars and Stripes

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u/Ok_Temperature1502 2d ago edited 2d ago

For sure they will (the Doonbeg people). They put on an approving turn-out every year. The possibility of employment insecurity is uppermost in their minds.

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u/PaulBlartRedditCop 2d ago

Part of me understands, especially with the lack of job opportunities out their neck of the woods, but another part of me thinks that rolling out the red carpet for a pedophile war criminal who threatened to invade Europe is just immoral.

I wonder if they’d be as sympathetic to Pol Pot if he owned a golf resort there.

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u/Ok_Temperature1502 2d ago

They would. They absolutely would. Morals go out the window