Instead of trigger

I have a trigger I can execute locally as expected and outputs a row to a table. I had to move the table to anther DB but I need to retain the same functionality from the orignal DB. I moved the table to DBx, created a DB link from the original DB to DBx, then setup up a synonym across the link. I could not execute the trigger on the synonym, so created a view off the synonym an placed the trigger with "instead of" clause on the view. I can't get the trigger to fire off the view. Any