Clare hope to trump Kerry effort

It’s seldom football talk isn’t top of David Tubridy’s conversation agenda during the month of June. When he isn’t playing for Clare he is to be found working behind the bar of the family’s bar and restaurant in Doonbeg. It’s a shrine to all things GAA with photographs and newspaper cuttings spread throughout the premises, many cataloging his exploits (and those of Dad, Tommy) in service of club and county.

However, the arrival of US President in these parts this week has trumped all of that — for a few days at least — and while the US commander-in-chief hasn’t ventured down to the village a few miles from his Trump International Golf Links and Hotel, sons Donald Jnr and Eric arrived into the family pub as young David was working behind the bar on Wednesday night.