Limerick multi-millionaire and philanthropist JP McManus has been officially announced as the new owner of Adare Manor Hotel and Golf Resort.

Legends like Harry Bradshaw, Fred Daly, Christy O’Connor Senior, Paul McGinley, Darren Clarke and Pádraig Harrington have won the Irish PGA Championship over its 104-year history.

World-renowned Irish trophy property, Adare Manor Hotel and Golf Resort, on 766 acres in Co Limerick, has gone to market this week for a price of €25-27m, via agents CBRE, acting for vendor and owner, US-based Tom Kane, who has redeveloped it over the past 27 years.

SCARCELY a week passes without news of yet another invasive species, plant or animal, reaching our shores.

Adare Manor’s Robert Trent Jones Senior-designed golf course has been named the top Parkland Course in Ireland by Golf Digest Ireland Magazine for the eighth consecutive year.

Ante-post favourite My Tent Of Yours will face 11 rivals in the William Hill Supreme Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham today.

Ante-post favourite My Tent Of Yours will face 11 rivals in the William Hill Supreme Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham today.

Graeme McDowell knew he was already through to the knock-out stages of the Volvo World Match Play Championship at Finca Cortesin yesterday ever before taking on South African Jbe Kruger.

Pól Ó Conghaile visits a manor with the X-Factor and a ‘gourmet summer’ to savour

A SUMMER of celebrity still continues to glisten in Adare Manor.

JP McManus and his family are helping many building workers get through the construction slump.

ADARE MANOR, the beautifully-located course on thebanks of the River Maigue in Co Limerick, will celebrate this week for one of their most esteemed members, Sean McMahon will be elected president of the Golfing Union of Ireland at their AGM in Carton House on Friday.

GIVEN the long list of illustrious names to feature on the Irish Open trophy over the years, 2008 champion Richard Finch isn’t likely to unduly stir the imagination.

Richard Finch not only won his second European Tour title today, but did something for which he will always be remembered.

LEADING jeweller Gerard Keane could be forgiven for keeping one eye on business as he took yesterday off and basked in glorious Adare sunshine for the opening day of the Irish Open.

Nobody could accuse Indian golfer Jeev Milkha Singh of having had a dull year so far – and eventful was certainly the way to describe his opening 66 in the Irish Open today.

ENGLISHMAN Bob Avis arrived at the Irish Open yesterday and proclaimed he had discovered heaven on earth.

COURSE designer Robert Trent Jones once described the 18th hole at Adare as “the finest par five in the world” and it certainly lived up to its billing during yesterday’s first round of the Irish Open at Adare.

Arguably Ireland’s finest parkland course and certainly one of Europe’s best golfing venues.

IRISH OPEN FEATURE

IRISH OPEN FEATURE

GARDAÍ fear a missing Limerick teenager may have met a violent death.

ADARE is adding new icing to the multi-million euro business which makes it the wedding capital of the country.

Charlie Mulqueen, Adare

ONE man dropped his wife off at the maternity ward and returned to play his round of golf, but even he couldn’t upstage mobile phone magnate Denis O’Brien — who had the mother of all chip shots.

TIGER WOODS and a whole host of other US Tour players were due at Shannon Airport this morning ahead of the JP McManus pro-am at Adare Manor Golf Hotel and Resort.

A PUBLICAN who introduced the smoking ban eight months ahead of schedule says business is booming.

THE holder and hot favourite Paul McGinley has cruised into the lead at the halfway stage of the Smurfit IPGA Championship at Adare Manor.