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 gap between the US and the rest of the world on offshore wind has widened into a chasm. While Europe and Asia are expanding auctions, the Trump administration has spent 2026 systematically paying developers to walk away from federal offshore wind leases entirely. The buyout pattern. In March 2026, the administration reached an agreement with French energy company TotalEnergies to cancel its offshore wind leases in the New York Bight and Carolina Long Bay regions — the US refunded $928 million in lease fees, and TotalEnergies agreed to invest an equivalent sum into fossil fuel production in Texas and the Gulf of Mexico, while pledging not to develop any new US offshore wind projects.