A bomb threat was made at US President Donald Trump's luxury golf resort in Doonbeg, Co Clare this week, according to a February 19 report in the Irish Mirror.
The threatening phone call was made to the Trump International Golf Links & Hotel in Doonbeg, Co Clare on Tuesday, February 18, according to the Irish Mirror.
A hotel spokesperson told the Irish Mirror that the hotel was not evacuated due to the threat and added that it is closed for the winter season.
The Irish Mirror reported that it is understood gardai – including a specialist sniffer dog from Dublin – searched the site, but found nothing suspicious.
The Irish Mirror added that the Irish Defence Forces' Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team was not deployed to the Doonbeg site during the incident as it was not deemed necessary as no device had been located.
"An Garda Síochána does not comment on security matters related to any location," a gardai spokesperson told IrishCentral on Thursday.
"Gardaí in Munster are aware of correspondence received by a third party with references to a commercial premises.
"Enquiries into the content of the correspondence are on-going."
Opened in July 2002 as the Doonbeg Golf Club, the property in Co Clare was purchased by the Trump Organization in February 2014 and rebranded to Trump International Golf Links Ireland.
Trump visited Doonbeg twice during his first term as President, and most recently visited in a personal capacity in 2023.
This week is not the first time that Trump's Irish property has faced a threat.
In November, the Irish Independent reported that Gardaí had launched a high-level investigation into a threat that had been issued in the previous four weeks and prior to the US Presidential election against Trump’s golf resort in Co Clare.
The threat triggered a major security operation around the hotel and its grounds, though sources did not divulge details of the nature of the threat to the Irish Independent.
However, the Irish Independent understood that at least one menacing letter was sent to senior hotel staff that suggested a serious threat to harm.
Trump Doonbeg. (Getty Images)
In January, prior to Trump's inauguration, security measures were heightened at the US President's Irish resort after a Tesla Cybertruck exploded and burst into flames outside the entrance of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, killing one person and injuring more than a dozen others.
The Las Vegas incident came just hours after a truck plowed into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing 14 people and injuring more than 50 others.
"We always had an element of security here among our staff and for our guests," Joe Russell, general manager of Trump’s resort in Doonbeg, told the Irish Mirror in January after the incidents.
"That would be ramped up and we’re considering everything regarding what’s going on and it’s not something we’re going to disclose.
"We have our arrangements in place and the exact detail of it will not be disclosed."
US President Donald Trump in Ireland in 2019. (RollingNews.ie)
Despite the threats, Trump Doonbeg recorded its "highest ever number in new membership sales" in January.
Russell told the Irish Times last month, just days after Trump's inauguration, that new members were paying €25,000 to join.
“Two-thirds of our membership are international with the vast bulk of those from the US," Russell said.
“It’s been a record month so far for new memberships, following a tremendous performance in 2024."
Russell said at the time that the resort was closed and will open for weekends in February and March before “it is all steam ahead, with the resort fully open from April to the end of October."
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