Members pitch in to get Killarney back on course to success

ONE of the country’s premier golf clubs, which has been through several difficult years and has suffered a marked decline in business, expects to be operating profitably again from 2014.

The running of the Killarney Golf and Fishing Club complex, in which Fáilte Ireland is a 74% shareholder, has been handed over to the members who are now tenants on the lakeside property.

A 15-year, low-rent lease, subject to review, has been signed and elections to a new members’ council, which will have full responsibility for all the club’s affairs, will soon take place.