An Coimisiún Pleanála has written to the operator of Trump International Golf Links & Hotel in Doonbeg, Co Clare, asking it to redo the ecological paperwork behind a ballroom. Clare planners approved the building back in February. It’s a single-storey hall of about 1,240 sq m, seating 320, replacing the marquee the resort currently throws weddings in. The approval carried a condition about Vertigo angustior, the 2mm narrow-mouthed whorl snail that lives in the dunes behind the course and is listed under Annex II of the EU Habitats Directive.

The image settles into you quietly: a single fisherman sits on a folding chair at the edge of a wide, calm shoreline, his back to the camera, his long rod cutting a clean diagonal line across the frame and pointing toward the open water. The sea is flat and muted, neither blue nor gray but something in between, as if the day itself is undecided. A string of floating buoys drifts parallel to the coast, gently interrupting the surface, while distant mountains fade into a hazy horizon that almost dissolves into the sky.