IRELAND has been voted the ‘Established Golf Destination of the Year’ by the International Association of Golf Tour Operators (IGTOA) at a convention in the Dominican Republic.

THE news that Jack Nicklaus is set to design his second course in Ireland — on the grounds of Killeen Castle in County Meath — has renewed the debate on just how many more new multi-million euro complexes this country can take.

FOR years, they will be talking about that June week in Dublin, when the sun was shining and everyone was smiling, when the city didn't smother as much and there was enough human faith to go around for one and all.

GOLF tourism interests throughout the country are hopeful but openly nervous as to what the coming season holds in store.

TOMMY ROCHE, aged 31, spent three years trying to prevent young people taking their lives, now he is trying to cope with a third suicide in his own family.

THE IRISH rode into the heart of the Ryder Cup on Wednesday night and pulled off the biggest coup of the week.