Peter O’Keeffe will never make a cent playing golf again but if the new Flogas Irish Amateur Open champion had his time again, he knows from painful experience the key to success is not just innate talent but a big, fat wallet to match an insatiable appetite for hard work.

"Kinsale doesn’t really do austerity," declared one fashionable lady, holding a glass of champagne as she nibbled on a dainty morsel of pâté de fois gras.

An Irish DJ has been invited to rock Glastonbury.

Men are in big demand in Kinsale.