Swiss tax resident JP McManus’s hotel and golf resort stands to benefit most directly from up to €238m in State funding for the 2027 event, but the business doesn’t even disclose its owners.
The façade of a champion shutting themselves off from the world doesn’t apply to the Masters’ winner. Like other greats in sporting history, victory came to him when he played on emotion.
PLATFORM Golf has just raised $5m from high-profile investors and industry veterans. Co-founder Rory Flanagan outlines the company's international plans.
The Grenfell inquiry heavily criticised the Irish building materials giant and it may be now be in the firing line of Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
After a number of years selling assets in Ireland, Denis O'Brien has just bought a five-star hotel in Portugal. It is a strategic asset for the businessman, who has extensive properties nearby.
The owner of the Mount Juliet hotel and golf resort in Co Kilkenny has appointed JLL Ireland to sell the property, the latest in a string of high-end hotel assets to come on the market.
Mark Kennelly was previously Enda Kenny's chief of staff. Now CEO of Golf Ireland, he talks about uniting the governing unions of the game, making golf more inclusive and why it doesn't take up too much land.
Rory McIlroy deserves praise for his intelligence and ambivalence in a world too often governed by egregious certainty.
Fionn Davenport takes a journey round the golf tournament that means more than all the others and why so many- including a Holocaust survivor - believed it represented everything that is democratic about sport.
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