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Donald Trump’s ballroom ambitions are running into trouble on two continents \u2014 and in Ireland, the obstacle is a snail.<\/p>\n

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According to The Washington Post, Trump and his family have promised to build “the nicest ballroom in Ireland” at the Trump International Golf Links & Hotel in Doonbeg, a 12,000-square-foot hall seating 320 guests.<\/p>\n

However, unlike the fight in Washington, the roughly 300 residents of Doonbeg largely support the project. But the endangered Vertigo angustior snail, which lives in the resort’s dunes, has long complicated development there. In February, planners approved the ballroom on the condition the Trumps submit a snail restoration plan.<\/p>\n

Days later, Liam Madden \u2014 a self-described “serial objector” known for derailing developments across Ireland, and who once helped kill a Trump seawall proposal at the same resort in 2020 \u2014 stepped into the breach and filed an appeal alongside Friends of the Irish Environment, which has disrupted the massive build-out.<\/p>\n

“If there is a God in heaven,” Madden said in July, “I will win the planning appeals and capitalize on it for notoriety.” <\/p>\n

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According to the Post, “He returned to the snail \u2014 this time focused on helicopters. The Trump Organization, a promotional video indicated, allows guests to be ferried in and out by helicopter. In online, an aviation company, Executive Helicopters, said it has two ‘heli landings’ at the resort, one by the hotel and one on the golf course. To Madden, this was a ‘fatal error’: The Trump Organization neither mentioned the helicopters nor sought to measure their ecological impact. The ballroom proposal thus was ‘tainted at law and beyond remedy,’ he wrote.”<\/p>\n

Geraint Ellis, an Irish planning law expert who reviewed Madden’s appeal for the Post, agreed and said the activist “seems to have found some issues that are worthy of further scrutiny.”<\/p>\n

Ireland’s national appellate board is expected to rule by year’s end, the Post is reporting.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile in Washington, the $900 million White House ballroom \u2014 complete with gold-colored presidential seals \u2014 is already under construction despite a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling this month calling the project “utterly lawless” for bypassing legally required reviews. <\/p>\n

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Donald Trump’s ballroom ambitions are running into trouble on two continents \u2014 and in Ireland, the obstacle is a snail.According to The Washington Post, Trump and his family have promised to build “the nicest ballroom in Ireland” at the Trump International Golf Links & Hotel in Doonbeg, a 12,000-squ…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nTiny snail derails Trump's other massive ballroom ambition - Property Relocation USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=6458\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tiny snail derails Trump's other massive ballroom ambition - 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