Reshaped Doonbeg links ready for ultimate Irish Open test

It’s the reality of Donald Trump that the presence and the persona tend to act like a black hole, sucking in the environment and the events around him. If that influence is so often malign then the man has at times obscured even the good news stories that orbit him.

His purchase of Doonbeg Golf Club and resort 12 years ago came at a time when the business was in receivership, but it was a deal sidetracked by the furore of his arrival in Shannon when then finance minister Michael Noonan awaited him on the tarmac.

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