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Donald Trump drops his Irish Wall

Donald Trump will no longer build a massive three-kilometer seawall at Doughmore Beach, in Ireland. The businessman and US president-elect dropped the plan to erect a 15-foot tall wall with 200,000 tons of rock in a sensitive sand dune system. The goal was to protect his Trump International Golf Links & Hotel Doonbeg from the […]

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When I get to Surf City I’ll be shootin’ the curl

You might not know, but Huntington Beach owes its nickname – Surf City USA – to Jan and Dean, a surf music duo that conquered American radio in the 1960s. When the group recorded and released “Surf City,” they certainly didn’t imagine their dream would last for 40 years. William Jan Berry and Dean Ormsby […]

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Save The Waves wants to stop Donald Trump’s Irish wall

Save The Waves Coalition launched a campaign to prevent US presidential candidate Donald Trump from building a massive seawall in Doughmore Beach, western Ireland. The controversial businessman wants to build a 2.8-kilometer, 15-foot tall wall in a sensitive coastal dune system to protect his Trump Golf Resort from climate change. The rock barrier will cost […]

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