Recessions and vulture funds could have eaten up the beautiful sprawling links in Strandhill but the heart continued to pump. Golf has been the lifeblood of this area for almost a century now but the ...

I met three men in three days in the wild west of Ireland, and each had something to teach me. First came the dog-walker, a wearer of wool who watched me snap-hook a 3-iron from the second tee of ...

Coolera-Strandhill became the first Sligo club to win a Connacht senior championship in over 40 years with a dramatic defeat of Roscommon’s Padraig Pearses in Markievicz Park. The Sligo champions had ...

In early May, 11 friends and I spent a week playing golf in western Ireland. On the plane to Shannon, I read Boomerang, Michael Lewis' 2011 book about the global financial crisis. Lewis explains how ...