Ally and David have identified the three in question I think. David worked on Bushmills for more than ten years, but his client, Ali Hanna, died this year, not that long after planning consent was granted. Mark Parsinen got involved, and David was removed from the project in favour of Gil. But, as I wrote last week, the course now appears dead as the land is being sold to someone else.
I visited Comporta in the spring and they were close to starting grassing (it's a pretty remarkable site btw, and assuming it does eventually get finished will be a must visit for anyone going to Portugal). But the client - the Espirito Santo banking family - hit financial problems in the summer and the project was closed down.
Cherkley/Beaverbrook started construction last year, but the project has been fiercely contested by local environmentalists, and was shut down when a judicial review in the High Court overturned the local council's decision to grant planning consent. Both the council and the developers were astounded by the decision, which contradicted all the legal advice they'd received, and took the case to the Court of Appeal, which found, unanimously, in their favour earlier in the summer. Just last week the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal, so it looks as though all is well there. Construction has been back on since the summer.