Island

Description: Corballis, Donabate, Co. Dublin Tel. +353 (0) 1 8436205 - Fax: +353 (0) 1 843 6860

Newest Review: ... before an early morning round. What you will remember most of all about The Island is the welcome you will receive from everyone connected to the club. They are about the friendliest bunch you will find anywhere, and you won’t stay a “stranger” in this club for very long. It is hard to imagine that this club were in such dire financial straits as recently as 1963, when the ... more

... keener golfers had to fight tooth-and nail to defeat a proposal put forward to reduce the course to only nine holes in the interests of economy! Thank goodness it never happened, and good sense prevailed. THE COURSE ~ ~ Now we com...more

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Island: When's The Next Boat? (1600 words)
by - written on 12/01/01 (Very useful, 66 readings)
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INTRODUCTION ~ ~ It is a strange irony that had it not been for the banning of golf on the “Sabbath” at the Royal Dublin Golf Club, “The Island” would most likely never have been built at all. ~ ~ The Island was founded in 1890, on a coastal peninsula across the bay from Malahide village, a northern suburb of Dublin. Ten bachelors, all members of the neighbouring Royal Dublin Golf Club on Bull Island, were exasperated by the then existing ban on Sunday golf, and so pooled their resources to rent the land on which The Island was built for the decidedly modest fee of only £10 per annum. They must all have been early ... Read the complete review

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