Bringing Donegal to bloom

Seven years ago, Pádraig Harrington staged a charity golf show in Dublin’s CityWest hotel.

An unqualified, sold-out success, he knocked it on the head after a year when it became apparent just how much of a toll the two days of talking had on him.

Jim McGuinness is just as verbose but if there is any fatigue on his part, he does a good job of disguising it.