Ate there on Saturday. A meal fit for a king
Bad reaction to Limerick winning
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Was in Dundrum on Saturday for a Golf Classic. The whole Hotel/Bar/Chalet area fenced off with security fencing and you can hear children playing away inside while security guards patrol the perimeter. The camp at the gate long gone and area around the gate seems to have been planted to prevent anyone else setting up in future. It does look fairly grim with the fencing and whatever else around. A couple of local taxi services seem to have a grand number ferrying asylum seekers around the place.
The golf course itself in good nick and the members are making a right go of it. They are operating out of a recently added driving range facility which is a couple of hundred yards in past the main hotel complex. The whole lot will be put up for sale in April next year once the IPAS contract expires; one would hope it is not turned into some sort of Adare Manor Mk II and exclude the long term local members, but it will take a serious wedge of cash to renovate the old building, bar area etc.
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Exploring Irelandâs Worst Rated Town - YouTube
Youtuber goes native with the youth of Tipp Town. Probably win the Palm DâOr if Rodri doesnât.
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Mr Magnier not moving on. Iâd say he has an obsession with this Regan lad.
Magnier claims Regan trying to âdestroyâ him
Coolmore owner says ban on billionaireâs stud farm is justified due to âthreatsâ
MARK TIGHE Senior Investigative Reporter
Coolmore Stud owner John Magnier has accused billionaire Maurice Regan of waging a campaign to try and âdestroyâ him.
A letter sent by Magnierâs solicitors Arthur Cox to Regan, seen by The Irish Times, details text messages between the two men after last yearâs High Court case over the Barne Estate.
Magnier believed he had a deal in place to buy the 751-acre estate in Co Tipperary, but Judge Max Barrett concluded a sale had not taken place. It was ultimately bought by Regan.
The letter said Coolmoreâs prohibition on doing business with Reganâs Newtown Anner Stud was justified due to threats to destroy Magnierâs reputation and business.
Magnier is being sued by Reganâs stud in the High Court for damages for alleged breaches of competition law after his horses were barred from Coolmoreâs stud services.
Reganâs complaint alleges that Magnierâs Ballydoyle racing group was given preferential treatment at the start of races in Ireland.
Regan, who runs the JT Magen construction firm in New York and the Mercantile pub group in Dublin, has also complained that trainer Joseph OâBrien was told not to train Newtown Anner horses.
In a letter sent on Thursday, Magnierâs solicitors said it was clear that Reganâs âanimusâ and âpersonal grievanceâ stemmed from a 1999 public auction where Regan and his father were the âdisappointed underbiddersâ when Coolmore bought Anneâs Gift, a large farm beside Coolmore in Co Tipperary.
The letter complained that Reganâs âsole focusâ in the competition case was to âuse them as a platform for making bald allegations in the media and elsewhereâ, culminating recently in a 13,000-word interview in the Sunday Independent.
âUnder considerationâ
Magnierâs letter said Regan had publicised complaints he made to Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) and the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) about Ballydoyle starting arrangements. However, it said HRI has since confirmed there was âno basisâ for the complaint to it. The IHRB said âthe matter remains under considerationâ.
The letter from Arthur Cox said the complaints were âpart of a wider campaign against Coolmore to make good on Mr Reganâs threats that he would destroy John Magnierâ.
It outlined how Regan was connected in business dealings with Luke Comer, a billionaire developer who is suspended from horse racing after his horses tested positive for banned substances. The letter said Comer had made âwild allegationsâ that Coolmore doped his horses.
Comer has alleged that Coolmore paid his training manager Jim Gorman to contaminate hay in his yard before his horses tested positive for banned substances. Coolmore and Gorman have denied the allegation.
Legal firm Creed McStay issued a response to Arthur Cox on behalf of Regan that dismissed its complaints as âa work of fictionâ. It said the Comer allegations did not concern Regan and were âan irrelevanceâ to his competition case. Reganâs relationship with Comer was âa narrow oneâ concerning one investment, it added.
The firm said Regan had intended to continue business with Coolmore after the Barne case but claimed Magnier âcould not let the matter restâ. It denied Regan had nursed a grievance for 27 years, saying he had done business with Coolmore for 20 of those years. Comer was contacted for comment.
Comer in Racing terms is a looper and Magniers is trying to connect Regan to that. Be interesting to see what excuse Joseph has for declining to take his horses any more as that probably isnât legal the way it has lined up.
Iâd say Joseph and the rest of them must be bulling with Magniers. There wouldâve been a lot of money to be made out of Regan.
I donât think Magniers will see Regan off, heâs younger, has more money, even more accomplished and has right on his side. This isnât some football manager.
Curious that Magnier gets Arthur Cox to send out a letter to Regan in the week after Regan has an interview with Paul Kimmage in the Sindo that is very disparaging towards Magnier
Itâs a bit like the 100 questions to Ferguson. He needs to âwinâ. They put manners on Ferguson but made their own position pretty untenable as well as they couldnât really actually get rid of him. Looking at values today, theyâd have been better off staying in. According to Simon Jordan, no one makes money owning football clubs but looking at the Glazers, Iâd say different.
He probably just needs to swallow it now at this stage. I think I read somewhere that Regan has bought or was buying across from the Cashel Palace. He could finish that place for Magnier very easily.
I would say thereâs a pair of them in it.
I wouldnât doubt it for a second.
Every time I see Magnier now I think of Don Corleone in the vineyard.
Magnier has become obsessed with Ragan in the manner the Don fretted about the Tattalias and Barzini.
Thereâs a movie in this I think - Brendan Gleeson as Magnier and Pat Shortt as RaganâŚ
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Tipperary GAA sold their soul when they got into bed with this prick
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Tipp Gaa got a bargin as Magniers head was addled elsewhere
Brennan sold him a pup
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And Tipp GAA is a mongrel
Heâs not bald to be fair.
Tipp GAA had to do what they had to do.
14 acres of Prime Real Estate adjoining Dr. Morris Park was simply too good to turn down.
Much like Judas telling himself he had to take the silver to save himself
Regan must be flying drones all over South Tipperary to spot anything like this.
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Might be all over with that Sales buy so, Regan could gut them. Iâd say heâs an animal. Heâd be an animal for work in the way those lads would never be as well. Magnier is a fantastic operator but Regan has actually gone out and took what he has. Itâs a different thing.