John Daly: America was the making of me, but I won’t be going back while Donald Trump is destroying the place

America was the making of me, but it’s no longer recognisable. As a kid, I developed an unhealthy fascination with monsters. Hooked on horror films like Halloween and ­ Poltergeist , I was still checking under the bed for demons well into my teens.

Over the past three months, as my doom-scrolling of Donald Trump’s presidency has grown more intense, it feels some days like I’m back at Killorglin’s Oisin Cinema, hiding behind my hands as Linda Blair in The Exorcist does a 360-degree head spin, spewing bile all the way to the back rows..