A five-star resort with an 18 hole championship golf course designed by Greg Norman fronting the Atlantic Ocean in Co Clare. It can only be Doonbeg, an outpost of Trump Inc ever since the tycoon swooped in and bought the resort from receivers in February 2014 for a bargain €8.7 million. Since then, the former US president has had his fair share of difficulties with the luxurious west coast get away, from the tiny protected whorl snail blocking his real estate group’s plans to build a sea wall off the coast to incurring massive losses at the resort, as revealed…

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