{"id":469137,"date":"2026-05-05T07:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/469137\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T07:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:07:14","slug":"ryder-cup-ticket-row-deepens-as-minister-asked-to-intervene-in-adare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/469137\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryder Cup ticket row deepens as Minister asked to intervene in Adare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sports minister Patrick O&#8217;Donovan has been asked to intervene in a festering <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/maintopics\/ryder-cup_topic-5084399.html\">Ryder Cup<\/a> tickets row in Adare.<\/p>\n<p>Each household in the Adare village postal code got <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/news\/munster\/arid-41835734.html\"> two complimentary passes<\/a>, valid for any day of the tournament, but residents of the wider parish, outside the postal code, were excluded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Government is now being urged to intervene ahead of the event in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Tidy Towns activist and Adare representative on Limerick City and County Council Bridie Collins said: &#8220;They allocated the passes without any community involvement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n            I am sure the Ryder Cup people had no intention of upsetting people. I would say about 80% of our Tidy Towns group, who go out in all kinds of weather, picking up weeds and setting flowers and keeping Adare clean, live outside the village post code area.\u00a0\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;I am trying to figure out how to get it resolved, I have spoken to Patrick O&#8217;Donovan. While those of us living outside the village postal code have been excluded, people with businesses in the village, who also reside in the village post code, got two allocations: one for their private house and another for their business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Ms Collins said the anger could have been avoided.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;My phone has been going non-stop since we learned of the allocation of complimentary passes and the way it was done.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;I can tell you there is a lot of disappointment in Adare. I don&#8217;t know who&#8217;s advising the Ryder Cup people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;It is the single biggest issue to have come up since the Ryder Cup was announced. So many people have been left out. I can see disappointment building to anger. This decision was not a good one and I don&#8217;t know if anyone in the community was involved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Village residents given free passes have also been told they can purchase four additional passes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sports minister Patrick O&#8217;Donovan has been asked to intervene in a festering Ryder Cup tickets row in Adare.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[201430,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,5948,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-469137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-limerick-news","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-ryder-cup","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116520710645466038","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}