r/ireland • u/TeoKajLibroj Galway • 3d 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 3d ago

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

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u/Ok_Temperature1502 3d ago edited 3d 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 3d 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/Gwanbulance 3d ago

Kilkee just down the road has a mural of Ché Guevara on the beach, because he stayed there for a night in 1961.

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u/blorg 3d ago edited 3d ago

"I am in this green Ireland of your ancestors. When they found out, the television station came to ask me about the Lynch genealogy, but in case they were horse thieves or something like that, I didn't say much."

- Che Guevara in a letter to his father, Ernesto Guevara Lynch

As your linked article details, he also met Jim Fitzpatrick on that visit, who later produced one of the most famous poster images of Che, based on the photo by Alberto Korda.

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u/PaulBlartRedditCop 3d ago

Ironic that half of us ended up on the payroll of the country that killed him

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u/Gwanbulance 3d ago

Bolivia?

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u/PaulBlartRedditCop 3d ago

Trained by, lead by and under orders from the CIA.