I hear that Rosapenna is set to rival St Andrews...

[Dónal Ó Ceallaigh]

I don't believe for a second that Rosapenna Hotel bought the St. Patrick's land just so that no one else could build a course there. When I spoke to Frank Jnr a couple of summers back, he thought it was a shame that the land was lying undeveloped. He then said something along the lines of "if only a C&C or Doak could design a course there" . Read into that what you will.  Who knows, there could be movements going on in the background as we speak. Wasn't Doak travelling around Mulranny way not so long ago? Maybe he was heading north?  The Irish economy is slowly picking up, so a course opening in 2016-17 could be the perfect timing.

[Tom_Doak]

Well, I wasn't in Ireland last month to work on routing a second nine at Mulranny ... although Ken Kearney told me he had done one, and I envy him for that!

I have no idea when something might happen at St. Patrick's, but we've spent a bit of time on the land and it deserves to have a great course on it.