US President Donald Trump’s visit to his Doonbeg golf resort in the summer helped the business increase its revenue to nearly €12 million last year.
Newly published accounts show income grew by 4.5% there in 2019.
The Trump organisation purchased the West Clare resort back in 2014 and since then President Trump has visited seven times – the most high profile of these was in June of last year which was the billionaire’s only visit to Ireland while President of the United States.
New documents from the company behind the resort reveal Trump Doonbeg received more than €107,000 for providing food and catering to Gardai on overtime protecting the President during his two day stay.
Overtime payments of €7.48m were paid out to 3,820 Gardai in connection with the visit.
Last year staff costs increased by 3.5 per cent to €6.57m as numbers employed increased from 221 to 230.
The company last year recorded a gross profit of €10.2m and administrative expenses of €10m resulted in the operating profit of over €209,000 – a 71 fold increase.
President Trump’s sons, Eric and Donald Jnr remain on the board of the Trump Doonbeg firm – the accounts were signed off by Eric and General Manager, Joe Russell late last month.
