According to the Irish Independent, the number of Americans requesting Irish passports has increased by 14 percent since their Scottish cousin Donald Trump joined the presidential race last summer. Correlation doesn’t mean causation, of course, but more than a few people have remarked upon the coincidence.
Off the coast of Mayo, the island of Inishturk is putting out the welcome mat for possible incomers to the quiet, beautiful, and underpopulated island. Inishturk’s Development Officer Mary Heanue recently invited potential Trump exiles, saying “they’d be given a huge welcome and they’d find this is a fantastic place to live and bring up children. . . . the teacher to pupil ratio is nearly one-on-one.” (Since the population of Inishturk is at present 58, and there are three students in the school, this sounds persuasive. And yes, she did say “huge.”)
