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1 Classic couture

By Tony Leen

A receiver has been appointed to The Lodge at Doonbeg and Doonbeg Golf Club at the invitation of the company’s directors.

The Lodge at Doonbeg, Co Clare, has been ranked 20th among the world’s top 100 hotels and resorts by Condé Nast Traveler, one of the most respected and trusted names in travel.

FOR most of the year The Burren is more moonscape than landscape.

It was all about pedigree as racing royalty joined forces in one of the weddings of the year.

THE OTHER day Andrew and I went fishing down at the lake. The wind was from the north-east and tradition has it that fishing is hopeless in an easterly wind. The sun was also glaring down, another bad sign.

I AM the busker - or the tap-dancing gentleman, as I was so kindly described in your letters column - who was only too pleased to help the lady from Co Tipperary who fell victim to a thief in a Cork city store last month.

ON FRIDAY, March 26, the Irish Examiner Money and Jobs section had a piece on human resource management, suggesting that “companies unable to afford a human resource manager may be failing in their duty to follow proper procedures”.

TAKE an old cottage in a good location and then add on a bit — not an unusual ploy in the property market and The Lodge in Riverstick, Co Cork is a good conversion.

I WRITE in reply to the article by SHB Chief Executive Sean Hurley in the Irish Examiner, April 28.