R&A ‘hopeful’ for future Portmarnock staging of The Open but says a lot of work still be done
The 153rd Open heads to Royal Portrush this year after commercially successful 2019 edition
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With 4,000 homeless kids in Ireland, why is the Minister for Housing trying to buy our votes with golf?
Darragh O’Brien clearly thinks there is no downside to him claiming credit for bringing the Open Championship to Portmarnock but it’s not a great look in the middle of the housing crisis
Bid to to bring Open championships to Portmarnock Golf Club takes significant step forward
An outlay of between €35m and €40m to be made in bid to secure both men’s and women’s tournaments
Financial and political backing behind push to bring The Open to Portmarnock
Golf’s oldest major has never been held outside the United Kingdom
Open Championship could be played at Portmarnock under proposals to be considered by Government
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Challenges of hosting The Open at Portmarnock ‘not trivial’, says R&A chief
Portmarnock Golf Club has engaged with Government for financial support to stage golf’s oldest major in Dublin
Treat for spectators as world’s top amateurs turn on the style at Portmarnock
Portmarnock Golf Club back in the international spotlight as it successfully hosts the R&A Women’s Amateur Championship for the first time since 1931
Senior legal figure Frank Callanan dies aged 65
Barrister recently acted for State in opposing Ryanair challenge to Covid travel advice
Royal Dublin Golf Club embraces gender equality after vote
Constitution to be amended which in effect will allow Dublin club’s first female member
Portmarnock Golf Club move is just the hinges blown off another little door
Sideline Cut: The golf course has long been a perfect battleground in struggle for equality
Portmarnock’s decision could lead to future hosting of Open Championship
After 127 years an overwhelming majority vote in favour of opening membership to women
Portmarnock Golf Club votes to admit women as members
83% of members vote to end 127-year-old men-only membership policy
Portmarnock's motivation for change feels a bit bogey at this stage
The 'gentlemen' out on the peninsula are being less vocational than transactional it seems
Player of the Year award marks Lowry’s Major achievement
Memorable British Open win at Portrush capped a great year for the Offaly man
Sutton Golf Club tackling golf's scourge of slow play
Players can expect to be out and about for up to six hours at the Alfred Dunhill Links
Pádraig Harrington: Portrush could be catalyst for global British Open
Dubliner insists ‘there is nothing that I fear out here this week, I can definitely do it’
Portmarnock golfers capture true nature of links course
Players produce guide to the flora and fauna of links club to mark its 125th anniversary
Shay’s Short Game: Tiarnan McLarnon wins Mullingar Scratch Trophy
Eisenhower Trophy team selected, Gary Cullen wins Leinster Mid Amateur Open
Portmarnock GC claim World Club Championship in Thailand
Geoff Lenehan and Jack Pierse pipped Royal Melbourne in a playoff to claim the trophy
Rory McIlroy eyeing weekend showdown with Danny Willett
World number three laments Muirfield’s decision on women members
Diarmaid Ferriter: What we can learn from women’s book clubs
We could all benefit from women discussing how we should be governed
Adrian Hardiman: A unique courtroom voice falls silent
Supreme Court judge was colourful and polarising - but never dull, writes Ruadhán Mac Cormaic
Portmarnock Golf Club to consult members about admitting female members
Club’s gender policy hinders its chances of holding tournaments such as the Irish Open
St Andrews finally grasp equality ‘nettle’
Royal And Ancient to recommend ditching 260-year-old policy of confining club membership to men
Paul McGinley names Des Smyth and Sam Torrance as Ryder Cup vice-captains
“They’ve been two big influences one me, two guys I have had enormous respect and implicit trust in”
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