Cancelled golf event means ‘€60m loss’

Up to 100 charity and voluntary organisations are bracing themselves for a €60m hit after confirmation that the JP McManus Invitational Pro-Am will not take place in 2015.

Since its inception in 1990, the charity golf event, which is held every five years, has raised in the region of €100m, which has been used to fund dozens of projects in the Mid-West and north Cork.

The two-day tournament is one of the biggest charity golf events in the world, attracting an A-list of celebrities and sports stars, including Tiger Woods and Hollywood stars Michael Douglas, Samuel L Jackson, and Hugh Grant.