Leading hoteliers purchase golf course

TOP Irish hoteliers Joe and Margaret Scally have added a golf course, Harbour Point in Cork, to their tourism investments.

The couple, who own the Royal Killarney Hotel as well as AA hotel of the Year 2004, the five-star Hayfield Manor Hotel in Cork city, are to continue to run the golf course into the future, representatives of the club's 500 members were assured last night.

The 18-hole course was put up for sale by tender by its owners, the O'Connell family, who developed it on their harbour-side farm in the early 1990s.