Trump golf course to build climate change wall

A golf course in Ireland owned by US Presidential hopeful Donald Trump is planning to build a wall to protect against coastal erosion, citing climate change and rising sea levels as the main driver.

Doonbeg golf course in western Ireland has submitted a planning application for the wall and its owner Mr Trump has frequently denied the existence of climate change.

The US Republican presidential candidates’ Irish holding company TIGL Ireland Enterprises submitted the application in May to build a €10.0 million (£7.6 million) rock barrier stating that storms had swept away sand dunes.

According to reports, the application says: "The evidence for increased storm activity associated with climate change suggests that the erosion will accelerate."

Billionaire New York property tycoon Trump bought the venue on the Atlantic coast, one of a string of golf courses he owns in the UK and Ireland, in 2013.

A decision on the application is expected by 6 July and the proposed sea barrier would be 2.8 kilometres (1.7 miles) long and up to four metres high.

Speaking to the media last year, Trump said: "I'm not a believer in climate change… It's always weather. And frankly, it's been that way for so long, and honestly, weather changes.”