{"id":381952,"date":"2026-01-21T09:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/381952\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T09:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:22:14","slug":"sleepers-no-more-e45m-vision-set-to-reimagine-irelands-most-polarising-links-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/381952\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleepers no more: \u20ac45m vision set to reimagine Ireland\u2019s most polarising links course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Father-and-son Raymond and Nicky Conlan face a hugh challenge in turning The Brittas Bay Club, formerly The European Club, into a must-play global golf destination for players of every ability\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nicky and Raymond Conlan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/030d1b50-2444-4ce5-91c4-88f6645ff3bf.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Nicky and Raymond Conlan<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There were always two kinds of people when it came to assessing The European Club, or what has now been re-baptised The Brittas Bay Club following its acquisition by the Conlan family last summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There are those who, score be damned, loved Pat Ruddy\u2019s inimitable style and the sheer audacity required to craft a links with his bare hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Father-and-son Raymond and Nicky Conlan face a hugh challenge in turning The Brittas Bay Club, formerly The European&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[63513,5904,2623,101,8937,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-381952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-brian-keogh","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-rory-mcilroy","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tiger-woods","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}