Trump objects to windfarm near Doonbeg golf resort

US billionaire Donald Trump has moved to put the brakes on a giant windfarm located within sight of his Doonbeg Golf Resort, warning that the windfarm will cost jobs at the resort.

This follows Mr Trump’s Doonbeg Golf Resort formally lodging an objection against the plans by Clare Coastal Windpower Ltd for a nine-turbine windfarm, with the turbines nearly 20ft higher than Dublin’s Spire.

Mr Trump has been joined by a number of locals and unlikely allies — Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE), who previously objected to the golf resort — in opposing the windfarm plan.