Donald Trump to meet Irish president on two day visit
EPAUS President Donald Trump will meet Irish president Catherine Connolly as part of a two day visit to the Republic of Ireland next week.
The long planned visit will see Trump jetting in on the Air Force One into Dublin on 12 September.
He will meet Connolly and hold a bilateral meeting with the Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Micheal Martin before travelling to his golf course in Doonbeg, County Clare.
Connolly has been critical of the US previously over its stance on Gaza but said she would "meet and greet" the US president if he visited Ireland.
During her presidential campaign last year, she called Trump a "bully".
"Have I a trust problem with America? I think every person in the country has a trust problem with America," she said.
"We have a president, (Donald) Trump, who is volatile, unpredictable, acting like a bully, bringing in tariffs when it suits him.
"We keep talking about the consequences of tariffs but we don't talk about the consequences of genocide."
Trump referred to the Irish president as "he" during a bilateral meeting with Martin in the Oval Office last March for St Patrick's Day celebrations.
When asked what he made of Connolly's remarks criticising violations of international law in the Middle East, Trump said: "Look, he's lucky I exist, that's all I can say."
An earlier planned sod turning of the brand new US embassy in the Irish capital is now unlikely to go ahead, BBC News NI understands.
However, Trump is expected to watch matches in the Irish Open golf tournament and some sources expect he will present the winner with a trophy on Sunday evening.
The high security operation will be tightly monitored by Irish security forces.
The last US President to visit Ireland was Joe Biden in April 2023.