Everything thrown in

Money talks, and now — will it talk Blarney? A change of agent sees a renewed ‘value for money’ stress on the Blarney Golf Resort in Cork.

For €2.5 million a buyer may now get a 61-bed, trading, four-star hotel on 168 acres near world-brand Blarney and Cork city, with 38 two-bed holiday lodges.

It includes the 18-hole golf course designed by John Daly, and a membership of 350, as well as a leisure centre with 700 members. It all opened to fanfare back in 2006, after a reported development cost of €40 million, but quickly got into financial difficulties, and legal difficulties, and has been in receivership for a number of years, after being one of the country’s earliest hotel/golf resort collapses from weight of debt.