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Trump holds Dublin talks with Irish leaders during golf-linked visit

US President Donald Trump met Irish President Catherine Connolly and Prime Minister Micheál Martin during a weekend visit linked partly to a major golf tournament.

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Adrian Cole
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Source: France 24 International · View original source
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US President Donald Trump held talks in Dublin with Irish President Catherine Connolly and met Prime Minister Micheál Martin during a weekend visit to Ireland, according to France 24 International.

The visit was linked partly to a major golf tournament hosted at a course the source says Trump owns on Ireland’s Atlantic coast. The tournament was not identified in the available material, which also did not provide details of Trump’s full itinerary.

No agreements, policy decisions or formal commitments were reported from the Dublin meetings. The available account provides no detail on the subjects discussed by Trump and the Irish leaders.

The meetings come against the backdrop of earlier comments by Trump supporting Irish unification. During a previous Ireland visit, he described unification as “fantastic” and said he would “love to see it”, while predicting it would eventually occur.

Those remarks drew opposition from the UK government and Northern Ireland’s unionist leaders. They remain background to the latest visit; the source does not report any new development on the constitutional question.

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