Portmarnock Golf Club doesn’t want women, so why should they want it?

IT’S not often a man becomes a billionaire because his mother died young.

But that’s the story behind the phenomenally successful fitness franchise called Curves. The founder’s mother died in her forties of heart disease due to bad diet and lack of exercise.

Devastated, he resolved to provide a means for women to exercise several times a week in pleasant surroundings with a low boredom factor.