A GREAT Killarney sportsman and political activist, who passed away prematurely last May, is to be honoured at two charity memorial golf classics on both sides of the Atlantic. Former team-mates, colleagues, friends and fans are expected to turn out in force to pay tribute to the late great basketball legend Paudie O’Connor at two… Continue Reading
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Maurice follows his heart back to golf
HIGHLY respected Killarney golf promotion specialist, Maurice O’Meara has launched a new company to offer a suite of great packages to discerning golfers anxious to test their prowess on the courses of Ireland. Discover Ireland Golf Tour (www.discoverirelandgolftours.com) will benefit from O’Meara’s 20-year experience of the golf and leisure scene and he was at the… Continue Reading
New management company takes over at golf club
AFTER a troubled year which saw general manager Cormac Flannery involved in a very public difference of opinions with the management council and professional golfer David Keating departing, Killarney Golf and Fishing Club has teed-up new partnerships with golf management company Synergy and professional golfer Mark Heinemann. An internal Deloitte report last year, which was… Continue Reading
Golf classic in honour of a Killarney legend
FORMER team-mates, club colleagues, friends and fans are expected to turn out in great numbers to pay tribute to the late great basketball legend Paudie O’Connor at a memorial golf classic in his honour in Killarney. Organised by his brother, Seamus, his great pal John Keogh, his nephew Philip O’Connor and friends John and Sean… Continue Reading
Maryann’s appeal for charity event support
THERE was nobody more qualified than Castleisland Golf Club’s lady captain, Maryann Downes when it came organising a charity golf fundraiser for Breast Cancer Research. The Brosna woman’s qualifications came layered and wrapped in experience given that she had been there and survived. It’s the backdrop of that interruption to the normal pattern of life… Continue Reading
