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McIlroy has previously played golf with Trump, who earlier this year praised the Northern Irishman's accomplishments on the course after winning back-to-back Masters titles.

"It's going to be different, but the one thing I'd say is his golf resorts have hosted PGA Tour events, European Tour events, LIV events," McIlroy told BBC Sport NI's Stephen Watson.

"He's a big fan of golf, he's a wonderful supporter of golf. He's got a beautiful property here in Doonbeg - it's the first time I've played it. I wouldn't say it's a true links golf course, it's a bit of an Americanised version of a links course, but it's still a great golf course and should provide a good test for the week.

"It's going to be different with him being here but we're here to play a golf tournament and it's a good golf course and keep our head down and play."

During his long-planned visit to Ireland, Trump will meet Irish President Catherine Connolly and hold a bilateral meeting with the Taoiseach [Irish prime minister] Micheal Martin.

He may also present the Irish Open winner with the trophy on Sunday evening amid a significantly enhanced security presence at the property he purchased in 2014.

"I think the weekend, especially when he's here [will feel different], crowds will be limited," added McIlroy.

"Obviously, there's a lot that goes on. So, logistically, it provides some challenges, absolutely. But at the same time, if he wants to come and watch the Irish Open, who are we to say no?"

Six-time major winner McIlroy headlines a strong field at Doonbeg that also features LIV players such as Jon Rahm, Tyrrell Hatton and Tom McKibbin.

The 2026 LIV season ended early following the cancellation of its team championship in Michigan amid ongoing uncertainty surrounding the tour's future.

On Tuesday, two-time major winner Rahm was tight-lipped about his future and said he was not fretting about the "turbulence" away from the course.

"It's a hard one - I wouldn't want to be in their shoes at the minute and I think just the headspace that it's taken up with the guys, fighting for money or the contracts or where they're going to be playing over the next few years," said McIlroy, 37.

"It's more like the uncertainty for them and it would be nice I think for everyone just to have a bit of certainty around the game and know what's going on and where certain players are going to be playing.

"I'm obviously glad that I'm not really a part of that and I know what I'm going to be doing the next few years, but for everyone involved it would be nice to have certainty and just sort of move forward."

Like Rahm, McIlroy hopes to join European legends Seve Ballesteros, Bernhard Langer, Nick Faldo and Colin Montgomerie on three Irish Open wins after capturing his second title at the K Club last year.

McIlroy also finished runner-up to Rasmus Hojgaard at Royal County Down in 2024 and the world number two believes he is "more relaxed" playing in front of home crowds having also secured a top-10 finish in last year's Open Championship at Royal Portrush.

"I probably went a few years where I wasn't very proud of how I played in the Irish Open," said McIlroy, whose first Irish Open success also came at the K Club in 2016.

"I sort of struggled to deal with the obligations or the pressure or whatever it was, but I think I'm a little bit more relaxed about it these days.

"It's nice to have been able to win it a couple of times and I think coming back after the year that I've had and winning another Masters...I still feel pressure at times playing golf, but coming back to a home crowd and a home open, that shouldn't be one of those."

McIlroy, who finished the PGA Tour play-offs with back-to-back top-four finishes, begins his title defence at 13:35 BST on Thursday. He has been grouped with five-time major winner Brooks Koepka and European Ryder Cup team-mate Robert MacIntyre. %!s()

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It wouldn't be a true Nintendo news reveal without an unexpected or offbeat announcement, and Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct delivered on this front. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is getting two big additions that will expand the gameplay experience, and they both exist outside the title itself.

One of the cooler new features involves physical ocarinas that will work with the Ocarina of Time remake.

How does the Switch 2 ocarina instrument work?

The first release is a fully-fledged ocarina that fans can play in real life. The physical ocarina connects directly to the game, where Link will perform the exact notes that fans play on the wind instrument. Series producer Eiji Aonuma showed this feature in action by playing Epona's song, a ditty that hailed Link's trusty steed.

Players can still input notes normally, through dedicated controller buttons. Alternatively, Nintendo revealed that fans will be able to use the Switch 2 controllers' microphone to hum notes into the game for the same effect.

How does the Ocarina of Time remake connect to the Nintendo Switch app?

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If you didn't download the Nintendo Switch app to access Zelda Notes for Breath of the Wild or Tears of the Kingdom back in 2025, Nintendo just gave you another excuse to check it out. For the Ocarina of Time remake, the app feature will have 11 different options to peruse — but Nintendo only explained a handful of them.

Today's Record will highlight the player's accomplishments in chronological order, complete with screenshots of when the action was completed. Think of it like Nintendo's version of achievements, except specific to Zelda. The feature is also informational, and will tell players the following:

• How long they played that day
• How many enemies were killed
• How long players visited specific areas of the game
• How many items were used
• How many times they died
• How many hearts were lost
• How many rupees were earned
• How far they traveled
• How much grass was cut

Nintendo didn't scroll all the way to the bottom, so it seems that this is not the entirety of what the game can track!

What are Gossip Quests?

In this segment of the app, Zelda Notes offers a wide variety of photographs with locations the player must find. When the area is located, the player will earn points that can be exchanged for ocarina scores they can play in-game. Some of the prompts shown were for highly visible locations, while others belonged to more esoteric areas, like specific rock formations. It's a good way to reward exploration, and for players to appreciate all the tiny details Nintendo included in the remake. The level of challenge is also variable. Players can tap a button to receive a hint on where to find the area in question.

What is the Play Ocarina section?

It's a digital version of the azure instrument that players can fiddle around with. The feature does give players guided playback either for the entirety of the song, or the start of a score. Here, players can learn exactly what notes to play and for how long in order to achieve a specific sound.

The more exciting aspect of the feature is that players will be able to record their own songs and share them with others via QR codes. Get ready to be rickrolled via Zelda!

What is Ocarina of Time Quiz?

Here, the app will present players with questions that must be answered within 10 seconds. Each question has four possible answers, as well as an attached picture. Two examples shown were "Who does this house belong to?" and "Which plant family do Bomb Flowers belong to?"

There are 2,000 questions overall, and players can tackle the quiz once per day. Fans can also spend 20 Rupees to give the quiz another go. The more consecutive answers you get right, the higher your "Egg Level" and "Cucco Level" become.

Options shown but not explained during the Direct session included Map, Hall of Fallen Foes, Global Play Data, Photo Studio, Threads of Time, and amiibo. Some of these features are self-explanatory, but the rest we'll have to wait until Nintendo decides to share more.

How much does the ocarina cost?

Nintendo didn't say when the ocarina will be released, or how much it'll cost. All we know is that it'll be sold via the Nintendo Store. %!s()

Criticisms around its core narrative have largely abated over the last few patches, though, as we near the next expansion Evercold in January. And with its final batch of quests now unleashed upon players I'm here to declare: this might be the greatest final MSQ patch we've ever received.

Spoilers ahead for Patch 7.56 of Dawntrail, if that wasn't already obvious.

Dawntrail's final quests serve as less of a light teaser for what's to come in Evercold, and instead feel like a straight-up prologue to the expansion. That's wildly different from what I've come to expect from these patch quests. Sure, we usually spend a few patches building up to what's next, dropping little hints and then using the final patch quests to introduce a new character or setting as a fun little hype-builder.

But this felt… different, somehow. Almost as if we were playing the first few quests of Evercold. The patch already goes ahead and drops us straight into the ice-clad Fourth—that's the reflection we'll be spending our time in during the expansion—and almost immediately into an encounter against foes we'll undoubtedly face in the future.

Our character introduction teaser comes in the form of Visna, an adorable young catgirl with her wits about her and a dab hand with a crossbow. Oh yeah, that's the other thing: this patch seems to be straight-up showing off the currently unrevealed physical ranged job. Creative Studio 3 still seems to be keeping its cards somewhat close to its chest with it, though. Visna doesn't have many animations, aside from one move where she cleaves clusters of enemies and calls out to her falcon.

But just being able to see it, without even knowing anything about it, is the exact sort of pre-expansion hype I'm a total sucker for. Coupled with Visna charismatically explaining what the Fourth's all about: Differently-branded folks confined to certain homes, all of which happen to be gigantic airships on account of the surface being completely frozen over for the last 500 years. Get too close to someone with a different brand? Well, according to Visna, there's a good chance one or both of you will die for it. It's a great opportunity to info dump in advance, already letting us know what we're in for.

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The whole thing builds up to getting us ready to head to Evercold's first location, Naglfar, while cleverly confining us to a tiny, separate area that still gives us a glimpse of what sort of vibe we can anticipate. The real thing'll come with Evercold itself, naturally, but it felt like I was already able to dip a toe into the expansion even while restricted to a singular floating platform.

Everything ends right before we plan to set off to Naglfar, leaving Evercold in the perfect position to throw us straight into the action. Not that I mind a little new-expansion-preamble, but Creative Studio 3 slapping it in the previous expansion is a great way to get the ball rolling on the next one even quicker than it might usually be able to. It was all incredibly refreshing in a way I simply had not expected, and I could feel myself getting those new-expansion fuzzy feelings even with Evercold four entire months away.

I think it's an excellent direction for Dawntrail's final moments to take—especially in an expansion that has been largely disparaged on the narrative front—setting the stage in a way that feels a little bit different to expansions past. It's still difficult to tell what sort of expansion Evercold is going to be based on a relatively short batch of quests, but I'm incredibly excited to find out.

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I sat down with Haab for an exclusive interview immediately following Star Wars Zero Company’s release, where he revealed that he considers the game’s score to be a “sequel” to other Clone Wars-era stories.

“When I wrote the score for [2017's] Battlefront II, I felt like I was really onto something. [With] Battlefront I, the assignment was to write the B-sides for the original scores. So [afterward] I really sort of branched off and started doing my own thing. So picking up [with Zero Company], I almost wanted to think of it as using Battlefront II as sort of my springboard. My parameter was ‘What would be the sequel to that?’ I wanted to have that sparkle that the Prequel era music has, but also have my personal aesthetic stamp on it.”

Haab also revealed that at a certain point after years spent working on Star Wars, he was able to throw out the Lucasfilm rule book.

Zero Company composer reveals Lucasfilm's rules for Star Wars composers

“In the beginning, Lucasfilm's direction was always ‘Be original, do your own thing, but the north star is from the original films,’” Haab says. “But then with the onset of multiple shows and games having their own original stories, that’s changed quite a bit. Each project I've worked on has had a different set of walls. When I worked on Star Wars: Hunters, I did the whole thing with an orchestra and a heavy metal band. That would not work in [Zero Company] or the Jedi series, [which is] much darker. It's much heavier, and it's got a lot of horror.”

Haab, who’s also composed music for multiple Indiana Jones games, including 2024’s Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, says he’s flattered by being associated with John Williams’s iconic music, but that the comparison does create a sense of pressure.

“In the beginning it was intimidating,” Haab says. “I felt that sort of pressure to try to live up to the original scores from the films. The ones that inspired me to even become a composer in the first place. I take those moments, I see those things happen, I absorb them, and then I quickly just forget about it and treat it as noise.

“It's almost like winning an award. I accept that award, which I consider that to be. That's a huge compliment to be spoken in the same sentence as my musical hero. But then I quickly put it away and say, ‘Don’t rest on those laurels. Do your thing, get back to work, create your voice within the franchise.’”

Despite multiple trips through the Star Wars galaxy, Haab says composing the various themes that make up Zero Company’s soundtrack presented a fresh set of challenges.

“I spent a couple months just coming up with the themes before I even started putting pencil to paper,” Haab says. “I probably wrote 15 versions of [the main] theme before I even sent it to the developers. I wouldn't even let it out the door of my own studio until I was absolutely thrilled with it. Version 1 was a lot of flourish. I spent a lot of time boiling that theme down to something that is extremely concise and simple, and I think it works.”

Haab says that, aside from the main Zero Company theme, there are two pieces of music from the game that he counts among his favorites.

Star Wars Zero Company composer reveals his favorite musical themes

“I think from a melody standpoint, [the theme for Hawks, Zero Company’s leader] is my personal favorite because it's got this heroic, drifting upwards shape,” Haab says. “[And another one] would be the theme for the Plague. I wanted it to be something [where] you could have a huge set piece with Hawks’s theme playing, and then the Plague theme would be much like the Plague itself and work its way through the texture of the music, develop[ing] into something pretty dark and heavy and grotesque.”

Haab, who says he’s been a Star Wars fan since seeing the original trilogy in theaters, revealed that there are two particular themes from those films that consistently serve as an influence for his work.

“The Force theme,” Haab says. “I think there's an obvious reason for that. It's utilized in every single one of the films and repeated multiple times. That was such an impactful moment in time for me because I was just a kid watching Luke look out over the double sunset and hearing that horn solo. I remember that, before I knew a thing about music, it shaped who I was. I think that is one of the greatest themes ever written.

“[Also], if you look at the Imperial March, the first section is very singable. Once you get into the B section of that thing, it starts to go really angular and chromatic to the point where, if you were to challenge me to sing it note for note right now, I probably wouldn't nail it. But I can remember the outline of it. I can remember the contour and the shape of it.”

After numerous accolades, including a Grammy for his work on Jedi: Survivor, Haab says that he’s eager to continue working on the franchise but that he realizes he’s just one artist in the vast Star Wars galaxy. When I asked Haab his advice for future Star Wars composers, he revealed a few key rules.

“I would say the two things that you really must take away from it are the importance of theme and not abandoning the sophistication and harmonic complexity that's available to you with a full symphonic orchestra,” Haab says. “I think that is sort of the recipe for good Star Wars music. Now what you do with it is completely up to you. Paint anything you want and it'll feel right as long as those things are honored.”

Star Wars Zero Company is available now on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S.

For more on Star Wars Zero Company, read our 9/10 review and find out why we call it "an excellent tactical game that does a fantastic job of slathering on the same cinematic look and feel we saw in Respawn's Star Wars Jedi games."

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Michael is the Senior Editorial Director of Events & Entertainment at IGN, where he leads entertainment content and coverage for tentpole events including IGN Live, San Diego Comic Con, gamescom, and IGN Fan Fest.

Michael Peyton is the Senior Editorial Director of Events & Entertainment at IGN, leading entertainment content and coverage of tentpole events including IGN Live, San Diego Comic Con, gamescom, and IGN Fan Fest. He's spent 20 years working in the games and entertainment industry, and his adventures have taken him everywhere from the Oscars to Japan to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Follow him on Bluesky @MichaelPeyton %!s()

The businessman Rami Naimi was first abducted in Dubai in 2017 on his return from a trip to Australia with his father. After being tortured, he was released the following year.

The father of three, who is the son of Ali Al-Naimi, a former Saudi oil minister and head of the state oil company Aramco, was detained again in 2022 and held for two years. Last year he was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment after a secret trial.

He was initially detained alongside 400 of the kingdom’s most powerful people in an infamous round-up at the the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh, which became the biggest and most contentious purge in the modern kingdom’s history.

Speaking out for the first time after years of what they described as a failed diplomatic process, his family has alleged abduction, disappearance, torture and coercion at the hands of Saudi authorities.

Naimi now faces a second trial for allegedly following certain accounts on X critical of Saudi Arabia and for attempting to leave the country without permission – both of which he denies.

“The first thing I wanted to do was speak out, but I was told no,” said his wife, Mira Lozi, speaking alongside her son at a campaign launch to bring Naimi home in London on Tuesday.

Lozi, currently fighting cancer, fought back tears as she said she had been encouraged to keep silent since 2017 to help secure his release.

“For nine years my children and I have lived through a nightmare,” she said. “Saying the truth today is like a liberation, enough is enough and we’re just hoping that we can end this nightmare and all the governments will be able to help us.”

Naimi left Saudi Arabia aged 13 and travelled for years between the UK, US and Middle East as a businessman. His family claim he was abducted in Dubai in 2017 after returning home from a book tour trip from Australia with his father.

They say he was blindfolded and forcibly taken by car to Abu Dhabi and then by private jet to Saudi Arabia. He was surprised to find himself with the others who had been rounded up, his family said, as he is not a journalist, activist or politician.

His abduction in 2017 came as the kingdom’s elite were detained at a five-star hotel in Riyadh during a purge in which princes, tycoons and ministers were stripped of their fortunes. Accounts later surfaced detailing torture and coercion, and the event preceded the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, whose assassination at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018 sparked revulsion around the world.

Naimi was held at the hotel and tortured, electrocuted, waterboarded and psychologically abused for three months, his family said. He was told, falsely, that his father was being tortured next door. He was released in January 2018 after signing a “settlement agreement”.

He was subsequently forced to sign a document pledging to surrender 5bn Saudi riyals, later “discounted” to 1bn riyals (£200m) – which the family says neither he nor they possess. Naimi was placed under electronic surveillance and banned from leaving the kingdom.

His family said he was disappeared again for nearly two years in 2022, and subjected to further torture, and emotional and psychological abuse. They said they had no idea if he was alive or dead, and learned only through the help of his legal team and diplomats that he was being held in Saudi’s notorious Al Ha’ir prison.

It was after his release in March 2025, with an electronic tag and subject to a travel ban, that he learned of charges against him claiming he had “exploited” his father’s official influence. Naimi faced allegations he acted as an agent for a US company in Saudi Arabia and helped Aramco to secure a contract to provide technology to prevent diesel smuggling.

After seven years without charges, Naimi, an EU citizen, was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment after a secret trial. Now he is unable to leave Saudi Arabia and his communications with his family remain monitored. He has no idea, the family said, of their decision to go public with his case.

“Until today we have no idea why Rami was targeted,” said Lozi, who is too frightened to return to Saudi Arabia or travel to the United Arab Emirates.

“It really is something out of a movie. It’s shocking and we just want to end this nightmare,” said his 21-year-old son, Ali, who was 12 when his father was abducted.

In recent years the UK’s relationship with Saudi Arabia has come under scrutiny over the flow of arms between the two countries, Riyadh’s use of public executions and targeting of exiled activists and dissidents.

“Any family making a decision like this needs to be supported by the government,” said human rights lawyer Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC, who is leading the case.

As the family hopes to meet the new prime minister and foreign secretary, Gallagher said the recent appointment of a special envoy for Britons detained overseas did not go as far as campaigners, experts and parliamentarians had called for.

Gallagher described it as: “Tea and sympathy for a very limited group of people.”

Last month the Guardian reported that X had become the latest US social media company to block the accounts of Saudi dissidents so they are no longer visible inside the kingdom, following orders from Saudi authorities.

The UK Foreign Office declined to comment. The Saudi embassy in London has been approached for comment. %!s()