LAST UPDATE | 10 Sep

DONALD TRUMP’S GOLF resort in Co Clare has been confirmed as the venue of next year’s Amgen Irish Open.

The tournament was won in spectacular fashion by Rory McIlroy last week, with McIlroy holding his nerve to triumph on the third play-off hole in front of home support at the K Club.

The Trump Organisation is “incredibly proud” that the 2026 Amgen Irish Open will be held at its resort in Doonbeg, Eric Trump has said.

In a statement, Eric Trump said: “This tournament is one of the most celebrated events in golf and bringing it to Trump Ireland is a true testament to the standard of excellence that’s upheld at this property.

“The course is absolutely remarkable and we are honoured to welcome the DP World Tour, its players and fans from across the globe to experience the beauty and challenge of our championship links.”

Speaking to reporters today, Taoiseach Micheál Martin remarked that the “relationship between Ireland and the United States is a critically important relationship”.

He pointed to the importance of this relationship economically, culturally, and “family-to-family in terms of our diaspora”.

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“In that context, there’s no question that President Trump would be welcome to Ireland, in terms of the underpinning of that US-Ireland relationship,” added Martin.

“In terms of the Irish Open in Doonbeg, we’ve just witnessed a fantastic climax to the Irish Open this year.

“We congratulate Rory McIlroy, he really is putting Irish golf on the world map.”

Martin added: “If you look at sports tourism competitiveness, we had college football here with huge crowds, that’s been one of the more beneficial developments in decades.

“Now we’ve got the NFL coming up, which is an extraordinary event in itself.

“I said when we went into government, our relationship with the United Kingdom, which is going very well at the moment, our relationship and membership within the European Union and our relationship with the United States are critical sets of relationships that underpin Irish society and our economy.

“There will be differences of opinion, that’s natural. We live in a democracy, and we facilitate protests, we facilitate people with different agreements.

“But the fundamentals are that we continue to support that relationship because it puts bread on the table of a lot of Irish people.”