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DONALD TRUMP IS pulling out all the stops to get an Atlantic wall built at his golf course in Co Clare.
The billionaire mogul and presumptive Republican US presidential candidate has been engaged in an ongoing saga since he bought Doonbeg Golf Club in Clare in 2014.
The Trump-owned TIGL Ireland Enterprise Limited wants to build a 2.8km berm on a sand dune at Carrowmore Bay to protect its investment against coastal erosion and storm damage.
The move has been opposed by conservationists in Ireland – with Carrowmore dunes being designated a Special Area of Conservation and a Natura 2000 site.
Last month, the plans for the wall hit a snag after TIGL’s application to have it declared a strategic infrastructure development has been denied by An Bord Pleanála.
Now, the company has filed a planning application with Clare County Council – complete with a 242 page Environmental Impact Statement prepared by an Irish consultancy firm - for the wall to be built.
The application, first reported today by Politico, cites local regulations pertaining to “rising sea levels and increased storm frequency and wave energy associated with global warming” as cause for the wall to be built.
The company’s concern for global warming is at odds with Trump’s own views on the subject, which he has called a “con job” and a “hoax” in the past.
Global warming
Trump, who has roiled the immigration debate by proposing to build a massive wall along the Mexican border, has repeatedly taken to Twitter to express skepticism that human activity is causing the world to warm, raising sea levels as the polar ice caps melt.
He has also said he would seek to “renegotiate” the global accord to cut climate-warming carbon emissions agreed to by President Barack Obama in December.
“The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive,” Trump tweeted in 2012.
Donald J. Trump / Twitter
Donald J. Trump / Twitter / Twitter
“The entire country is FREEZING – we desperately need a heavy dose of global warming, and fast! Ice caps size reaches all time high,” Trump tweeted in 2014.
Trump campaign spokesman Alan Garten did not respond today to messages from The Associated Press seeking comment.
Environmental groups pounced on the application as evidence of hypocrisy.
“Donald Trump clearly cares more about the fate of his golf courses than the health of the millions of families already affected by the climate crisis,” said Adam Beitman, a spokesman for the Sierra Club.
With reporting from AP
Money talks and the “what’s in it for me” brigade are besotted. The red carpet arrival recently, with Noonan and the Irish dancers was one of the most embarrassing episodes of our recent history.
Why are all Irish medias bad mouthing trump …. Why not bad mouth enda noonan or me hole Martin,
Why do you care?
Jamie,with the ferry from Tarbert it would be handy enough for Michael and Danny to build it for him!!
That’s another big government contract going to as yet an unformed company in DOB’s portfolio.
The Donald can go and f### off
Let’s hope the yanks concur.
Let him build a wall, very iriah
I hope the Donald builds this wall and the wall with Mexico. Europe could definitely use a wall, somewhere between Greece and Turkey would do nicely.
A two faced salesman, out to feather his nest and those rich friends of his. You’d have to be really thick, to vote for him and then I remember Enda Kenny every time.
I don’t like the man but I’d take him over hillary every day. She’s nothing but a pawn of wall Street and the political establishment
Can I just ask..he wants to build a wall to prevent further erosion of his part of the Co Clare coastline, whats the issue? If its for birds etc let him build a bird friendly wall . I personally dont like the man but it just seems there are objections for the sake of objections and a lot of hatred.
The problem is the birds will just fly over the wall. He wants to keep the birds out.
Fred,I hope Trump builds a tiny wall around your ickle bwain.
He can always nest a flying flock or 2 in that lush rug of his…..up the Drumph!
Trump, just feck off you chancer!
I am fine with that as long as you and your ignorance are on the far side of it. Maybe we could swap you for some decent refugees
I’ve no time for Trump but these anti Trump Articles are getting tedious..Why not bang out a few ones about the war monger capitalist Clinton for a change..I’m reading the same bollox everyday..you’re not journalists,you’re regurgitists.
Absolutely. Clinton has numerous, non-libelous, articles that could be published about her dealings.
Trump is just so hot right now…. I am still dazed that he is where he is. Joke is on me I suppose.
Well said. Clinton is as bad if not worse than Trump. She’s pro fracking, TTIP, below minimum wage, Wall Street and supports Apartheid Israel.
I happened to be watching an old Christopher Hitchens video on youTube a few weeks ago in which he berated Hillary Clinton, he rhymed off some of her many faults and failings, described how both she and her husband are in bed with multiple big businesses and are totally corrupt. He went on to say that, despite all this he still believed she had been chosen to run for the White House and would probably win. The interviewer asked a question of Hitchens, something like how likely was that given her many faults that he’d just listed. Hitchens replied that they’d find some dumb patsy to run against her, he’ll appeal to the masses but, ultimately be unelectable. Christopher Hitchens died in December 2011. He was a very, very clever man.
If Donald Trump wants to build a wall in Clare may I request he personally builds it himself, and they then adjust the plans to move the damn wall 10 miles to the West. That should do it.
And Trump isn’t? I’d rather Hillary than Trump.
@Colm It’s a bit like asking someone if they’d prefer to be executed by firing squad or lethal injection. The end result will be exactly the same…
Hilldog will ultimately chug on Drumph’s Rug and pack her sneaky snizz snuke ever primed for a vigorous flicking! https://youtu.be/EqibWNCjICc
Nice wordage with the regurgitists Dj..
In this case, I imagine that if Clinton owned a golf course in Ireland and had just applied for a contentious alteration in spite of his supposed disbelief for the reasons the alteration was needed, the Journal would probably carry that story too.
If you want to see how Donald goes about building his golf courses check out the documentary “You’ve Been Trumped”. Basically destroying natural Scottish areas and forcing people out of their homes
OMG ! OMG!
Ram your wall up your @rse ya stupid looking b$llix
Good point, but on the other hand, wall!
Boycott his course and hotel.
Why’s that exactly? Are you that concerned about global warming? Really?
I for one am worried about the Polar bears, but their plight is just the tip of the iceberg.
Walking on thin ice with those jokes.
that was a stupid joke by me.
Im from west clare .im not a trump fan by any means .but if he wants to build a wall. Let him put rock armour in any vulnerable area on the west coast of clare .not only will he be saving holmes .but creating jobs .build away sir
Elementary my dear Galvin.
But this will only protect the bits of his golf course that were built too near to the sea, that’s all.
Meanwhile the vile lying war mongering Clinton manages to avoid ANY negative press from the MSM.
Don’t forget Big Pharma and the Military Industrial Complex dawg!
That thing is obsessed with walls. He might need to be ” buried” in one. ..
Of course we don’t build walls against costal erosion in this country.
EVERYTHING developmental is “opposed” in this country by environmentalist pseudoscience .
If the Irish lived in the Netherlands they would all drown.
Small wonder we were the paupers of Europe until the EU dragged us into the 20th century.
And robbed all our fish.
And as a thank you, landed us, the ordinary Irish people, with an immoral bill of billions of euro. Whilst we attempt to cope with a homelessness crisis. Blood-suckers out.
If the Dutch would have a say in this, they would recommend demolishing the golf course and all it’s infrastructure and leave the dunes for what they are;.a coastal defend system.
You obviously ain’t seen what a Wild Atlantic Hurricane can do to mere sand dunes Jeroen Bos.
Have you ever seen the heavy military-style defenses all along the Dutch coast?
The Dutch have been at war with the sea for a thousand years.
The Atlantic Coast is an altogether rougher place than the North Sea at the Netherlands.
Solid heavy embedded interlocking granite blocks is the best defense against “Furor Oceanus Atlanticus”.
Properly landscaped to blend in of course.
P.S.
This is what County Clare and the West of Ireland looks like when the Atlantic gets angry.
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Trump is technically correct. Thanks re-vamping our golf course in Clare
Trump should team up with his Irish pal Michael Healey Rae , could you imagine the conversation on global warming with these two nutjobs , ” no Donald the man above controls the weather , your in the Kingdom now boy “
I wonder would we have this negative comments if it was a different person? Coming fromLahinch up the road from Doonbeg, Lahinch golf club put out rocks to protect its golf course and our wonderful sand dunes for everybody. Clare Co. Council then had no money to do this 30 years ago,thank you L.G.C for saving our dunes.Donald Trump wants to spend 10. Million of his own money to protect his course which will also protect many farms and homes if people would know of the danger if the sea breeches before they make a comment. Clare Co.Council have no money after all their fat salaries and expenses are paid including their 800 staff for instance co manager is on 135000 plus expenses
A local has posted on the website to save the beach that no farm lands will be protected by this wall – Trump built the course too near to the sea despite having a huge amount of still unused land there – he could still move it back – and a 2.8K long massive pile of ugly rocks along what is a beautiful natural beach would mar that beach. It is only necessary to protect the part of his golf tees that is right at the sea, where it should never have been allowed to be built in such a beautiful area – as ever in Ireland, we allow philistine developments to mar our beautiful countryside.
Little Diddy, number 1 trump did not build the golf course in its present location, the previous owners did. 2 obviously you know nothing about golf, the extra land you refer to is more like parkland not enough sand dunes available. Most farmers in the area would welcome this proposed protection. Up the road listening to people whose homes were flooded after recent tides where C.C.C granted planning permission for houses that should never been allowed to be built, are still waiting after consultant report upon report money wasted and nothing done
Surely, whether you believe in climate change or not, the protection of the planet is of the utmost importance regardless?
Any questions about donalds green credentials would be answered by watching the C4 documentary “Trumped” You will meet the real life Donald and his concerns about his fellow members of the human race
The Clown Prince of the Right,Lol!
Nah,a week in Torquay and I’m happy out Fred.
Get f**ked
What A dick head
The irony of it all – CONSERVATIONISTS object to the wall – without which the Dunes will be washed away eventually! Doh !
That is just not true.
So what, he’s a businessman using every trick in the book to get the project going. He knows the fools in An Bord Pleanala will swallow the global warming line hook line and sinker. Whether he actually believes in global warming is irrelevant. You need to understand, this is about “winning”. The question is do the Americans want a winner as President.
That’s not the question at all Fred. Trump “winning”, in this case, is at the expense of a beautiful stretch of Iris h coastline. It really has very little to do with who you want to win the US presidential election, more to do with our own country and how we allow private business interests shape our environment
He is all set to meet with Danny Healy Rae for a pint of the black . https://www.scribd.com/mobile/doc/310835987/Donald-Trump-Lawsuit
Reason he wants to build this wall is obvious: he found out The Gulf Stream comes from The Gulf of Mexico
The next phase in the global warming monstrosity is ‘event attribution’ – a whole range of litigation from class action lawsuits to minor things such as building a wall on a golf course all coming in within the umbrella of ‘climate change’.
So there’ll be no Mexicans playing golf in Clare then…
Is it that bad he wants to build a wall at his resort?
John “Special area of Conservation site and Natura 2000″ so yes it’s bad.
Sh sure every area is special now. If the wall is not build the coastline will just vanish further
If that were the case John, why is it that after 1000s of years these dunes are still there? Dunes are a coastal defend system.
You should read more about this.
Wind bag.
Build that wall !
What is it with this tool and his walls? Donny Drumpf Building Contractors Ltd.
Mad man
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