KEEPING Rathmore golfers out of the news these days is far from being an easy task.

ALAN DUNBAR led the Irish brigade at the 115th British Amateur Championship in Scotland yesterday with a champagne performance.

TÁNAISTE Mary Coughlan and the Dublin Airport Authority have vigorously defended their involvement in Ryanair’s failed bid to create 500 engineering and support jobs at the former SR Technics site at Dublin Airport.

PERCANA Group has secured a major new client contract with Pearl Group, one of the top 10 British Life Assurers.

THE space you allocate to letters is not large enough for me to address all of the untruths contained in Michael O’Leary’s letter (December 3), so instead I will merely tackle the three most blatant falsehoods.

I WISH to correct the numerous misleading claims made by the Paul O’Kane of the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) in his letter (November 17) regarding the DAA and its white elephant, €1.3bn Terminal Two (T2).

PAUL MILLS’S column headlined ‘Inefficiencies see money poured down drain’ (November 12) contained a number of inaccuracies relating to the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) and the construction of Terminal Two (T2) at Dublin airport.

ONCE again, the Pierce Purcell Shield produced high drama and great excitement before Letterkenny were crowned champions after beating Corrstown in a veritable thriller.

ULSTER justified pre-tournament favouritism at Douglas yesterday when they defeated Leinster 7½-5½ on the final day of the Golfsure Interprovincial Championship to complete the grand slam and regain the title they last held in 2006.

Defending champions Leinster were held 6 ½ - 6 ½ by Munster on the second day of the Golfsure sponsored Interprovincial Championships at Douglas Golf Club, while Ulster beat Connacht by 9 ½ - 3 ½ .

THIS will be a big weekend on and off the course for several of our leading golfers.

PAT MURRAY has the ideal opportunity to show the Irish selectors the error of their ways in the 108th South of Ireland Championship which begins at Lahinch today.

PAT MURRAY has been waiting a long time, but yesterday he finally won the big win so long overdue when he came good in the Golfsure Irish Close Championship at Enniscrone.

SEAMUS POWER (West Waterford) defends his Irish Youths Amateur Open Championship title at Lisburn on Thursday and Friday and, if successful, will become only the second player in the history of the event to win the title on three separate occasions, following John McHenry’s wins in 1980, 1981 and 1985.

PASSENGERS at the congested Dublin Airport will see the benefit of €450 million of improvements as early as next year, airport bosses said last night.

Seamus Power continued his remarkable start to life in American collegiate golf with victory in the prestigious Jerry Pate National Intercollegiate tournament in Alabama this week.

Ulster secured an impressive victory against Connacht in the Youths Interprovincial Matches at Donegal Golf Club today.

The team to represent Ireland in the Boys Home Internationals at Moray Golf Club, Lossiemouth, Scotland on August 8 - 10 has been announced today.

Teen star Rory McIlroy today became the first player since Joe Carr in 1965 to retain the Golfsure Irish Amateur Close Championship.

GRANTS totalling €65,000 were awarded by the Irish Sports Council to leading Irish golfers.