Tiny Snail Defeats Donald Trump in Battle Over Irish Sea Wall

Of all President-elect Donald J. Trump’s rivals over the past year, the tiny narrow-mouthed whorl snail must be the smallest. Sometimes, though, less is more.

Mr. Trump’s real estate organization had planned to build a long sea wall off the Irish coast to protect its golf course in County Clare. But the wall faced opposition from environmental groups who said they feared that it would threaten the two-millimeter-long whorl snail, or vertigo angustior, which lives in the area, as well as coastal dunes. Both are protected by European Union rules.

Now it appears that the snail has prevailed.

Mr. Trump’s representatives said at a meeting at the club this week that they would replace the planned…