US president Donald Trump threatened last October to move World Cup matches from Boston if there were “unsafe conditions”. Trump had already signed an executive order two months previously in creating a White House task force for the LA Games. “We had the [2023] Rugby World Cup as a sort of testing ground for that. “So we're very interested, at this point, in what happens at the World Cup. A Team Ireland House will be based on Long Beach and the Team Ireland athletes’ base has been narrowed down from an initial list of 42 to a facility in Santa Barbara or another at the Mt.

Source: Irish Examiner January 19, 2026 18:50 UTC