HOTEL sales momentum is continuing to gather pace as the year’s first quarter ends, with sales agreed or closed totalling around €10m at Cork’s Oriel House Hotel, in Ballincollig, in Charleville, and in Wexford’s Bunclody, where the Millrace (previously a Carlton hotel), has just been sold by CBRE.

THE new owner of Blarney Golf Resort, Tommy O’Gorman, hopes to buy several other Irish hotels, if they offer similar good value and prospects.

A high profile golf resort opened in the dying days of the Celtic Tiger has been bought by a low-key investor from the North two days after he heard about the sale.

It has to be the Gift of the Grab — Blarney’s Golf Resort and hotel has been bought, sight unseen, just two days after its new owner first heard of its impending sale.

A strong local trade, in the heartland of Munster’s Golden Vale, underpins the good trading figures at the Charleville Park Hotel — just released to market.

Money talks, and now — will it talk Blarney? A change of agent sees a renewed ‘value for money’ stress on the Blarney Golf Resort in Cork.

A Labradoodle is about to wed a golden doodle in a ceremony with 500 guests, writes Áilín Quinlan.

The receiver appointed to a golf resort in Co Cork has instructed auctioneers to further slash the asking price — to one-tenth of its original building cost.

Golfers might wish their playing handicaps would drop as fast, or at least as steadily, as the asking price on the Blarney Golf Resort in Cork.

LEFT Valentine’s Day a little late this year?

LANDOWNERS are facing significant disruption after the selection of a preferred route for a proposed €1 billion superhighway between Cork and Limerick.

IN the week which saw the Blarney Golf Resort up for sale at €20 million, a house within driving range of the John Daly-designed course is for sale.

A GOLF course builder who is staging a sit-in at a golf resort was ordered by the courts yesterday to end his protest.

THE man who blockaded a €40 million golf resort to secure almost €700,000 in court-awarded fees vowed last night to live on the course until its developers pay up.

A TOP golf course builder who blockaded a tourist town’s championship course yesterday said he is prepared “to do time” to secure the €500,000 he is owed.

FLAMBOYANT golf legend John Daly drove a few of his trademark big hits around the country’s newest golf course yesterday — the first he’s designed in Europe.

Golf superstar John Daly today opened the new €50m Blarney Golf Resort — the first course he has designed in Europe.

EVEN if you’re not a golf fan, chances are you know who John Daly is. At least you think you do. Michael Moynihan met the golf legend to separate myth from reality.

GOLFER John Daly has described Jack Nicklaus’ farewell to St Andrews at last weekend’s Open as “very emotional”, while admitting that he and other competitors were relying on the weather to help reel in eventual winner Tiger Woods.

ALTHOUGH lying only 26th on the American PGA Tour's qualifying list, John Daly is not ruling out making the American team for the Ryder Cup at Oakland Hills in September.