Ireland jubilation at Trump sons’ visit
DOONBEG: When Eric and Donald
Trump Jr arrived in the one corner of Ireland, celebrating their father’s first visit as US president, they had one question for the locals: “Does Doonbeg love Trump?”
Doonbeg’s residents decked the streets in American flags and stars and stripes bunting, crediting Trump with securing their livelihoods when, in 2014, he bought the nearby golf resort where he will spend the next two nights. Amid a celebratory street party of Irish dancing, Trump’s two sons went from pub to pub posing for selfies with kids, shaking hands and buying drinks for all the patrons.
“Everywhere we look all we see is American flags with Irish flags. That’s a beautiful thing… It’s so nice to see, so thank you,” Eric Trump told cheering crowds as he served pints from behind the bar at Tubridy’s, one of five pubs the brothers visited in the space of an hour.
“I got to shake Eric Trump’s hand twice,” said Martin Doyle, 28, a barman from neighbouring Limerick, draped in an American flag and a Trump T-shirt.