Golfer’s €500k bill for handicap case

A pensioner who lost a case about his golf handicap faces having to pay a legal bill which could run to €500,000.

The golfer who lost his case, which lasted 83 days in the High and Supreme Courts, was yesterday told he will have to pay the massive legal costs of the action.

Thomas Talbot, aged 76, said the bill of €500,000 could have been avoided if the lawyers seeking the costs “had paid me the money they are charging”.