Clare County Council has been advised to reject a planning application to develop a large wall structure at Doonbeg beach.

The Green Party has written to the council and claims the planned development would present a "real threat" to the Doonbeg Dune System.

Green Party Leader Eamon Ryan wrote: "The proposed objective to protect the existing golf course can be better achieved by allowing the course adapt to the changing character of the dunes, as was allowed for in the original course design. I understand that additional and unused land areas were provided from the outset in the expectation the dune system would continue to adapt and evolve in a way that is characteristic of this system.

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"It is our understanding that the application in question would not meet the criteria outlined above and that both the Carrowmore Dunes and threatened local fauna qualify as a 'priority' habitat and species."

(CD/MH)