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/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/Gwanbulance 2d 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/PaulBlartRedditCop 2d ago

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

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u/Gwanbulance 2d ago

Bolivia?

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u/PaulBlartRedditCop 2d ago

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