9/9/2019

IRELAND/MIKE PENCE/TRUMP BUSINESS: “I had nothing to do with the decision of our great @VP Mike Pence to stay overnight at one of the Trump owned resorts in Doonbeg, Ireland. Mike’s family has lived in Doonbeg for many years, and he thought that during his very busy European visit, he would stop and see his […]

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9/3/2019

IRELAND/MIKE PENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Vice President Mike Pence departed his hotel overlooking stunning vistas of the Atlantic Ocean just before 8:30 a.m. Tuesday [9-3-19] for his official visit with Michael D. Higgins, the president of Ireland. It would be quite some time before he got there. There was the hourlong motorcade to the airport […]

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6/6/2019

GOLF/IRELAND/TRUMP FAMILY: “When Eric and Donald Trump, Jr. arrived in the one corner of Ireland celebrating their father’s first visit as U.S. president, they had one question for the locals: ‘Does Doonbeg love Trump?’ Unlike the protests that greeted Trump in London this week, there were no inflatable blimps depicting him as a baby or […]

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6/6/2019

IRELAND/PROTESTS/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Protesters in Dublin on Thursday [6-6-19] hoisted the ‘Trump Baby’ inflatable blimp that has become a staple of rallies against the U.S. president, who was spending his second night in a row at a golf hotel he owns in Ireland. The six-meter high blimp, which depicts Donald Trump as a snarling, diaper-wearing […]

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6/6/2019

GOLF/IRELAND/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Donald Trump is on a global tour of his own businesses — and it’s putting more money in his bank account. On Wednesday [6-5-19], the president traveled to his luxury resort on Ireland’s west coast for a visit that will bring world-wide publicity and increased security to the location, and, if past trends […]

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9/11/2018

EU/IRELAND/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s planned trip to Ireland in November is now in question after the Irish government announced its postponement Tuesday [9-11-18]. Complicating matters, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders claimed in a statement shortly afterward that the administration was still ‘finalizing’ whether Ireland would be a stop on a previously announced […]

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9/11/2018

EU/IRELAND/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump’s plan to visit Ireland for the first time as U.S. president this November has been canceled for scheduling reasons, the Irish government announced on Tuesday [9-11-18]. But the White House did not immediately confirm the cancellation, saying it was still finalizing plans for Trump’s November trip to Europe. Trump announced […]

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