The golfing business in Ireland has taken a hit like few other industries over the past decade, with the amount of members leaving golf clubs reaching near epidemic proportions.

Expected to sell in two lots is a Killarney golf course with a 20-year pedigree, overlooking 200 year old trees, a 15th century castle - and the four-story shell of an uncompleted 120-bed hotel and lodges project.

GOOD enough to host the Irish Open on a couple of occasions in the early 1990s, the Killeen Course at Killarney, as we used to know it, is no more.