#Doonbeg - More than 30 individuals and organisations have submitted objections to the proposed coastal defence works at the Doonbeg golf resort purchased by US President Donald Trump.
Surfers, environmentalists and some local residents comprise the stanch opposition to the plan among submissions received in a public consultation that closed on Friday 3 February, according to the Irish Examiner.
December saw news that the original proposal for a near 3km sea wall had been scaled down to just three holes on the Co Clare links course, part of a resort that constitutes the area’s single largest employer and has the support of most locals.
However, the revised plan to protect holes 1, 9 and 18 from coastal erosion remains controversial as it involved the placing of 38,000 tonnes of rock between the course and the sea — a project that could interfere with popular surfing waves, not to mention the habitat of a rare snail species.
One complainant wrote of the “monstrous damage” to the beach that its claimed would result from the rock barrier works — and suggested that the “simple solution” of moving the golf course further inland had been ignored.
The Irish Examiner has more on the story HERE.