A missed four-footer means nothing when you’ve been out for a year battling lymphatic cancer.

Royal County Down has a habit of punishing aggression but big hitting Douglas man Peter O’Keeffe kept his love of attack in check to open with a fine 70 in the Flogas Irish Amateur Open in idyllic conditions at the firm and fast Newcastle links.

The Government was today criticised after a Bollywood film crew was refused visas to travel to Ireland to shoot a movie.