Mount Juliet Estate Magazine - Winter 2014

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Issue 52, Winter 2014

Welcome Welcome to Mount Juliet. The centre of attention.

It is my pleasure to welcome you to Mount Juliet as returning guests and if you are with us for the first time.

It continues to be my privilege to manage and live on this iconic Grand Dame of Irish resorts. The challenge of delighting all our visitors is as enjoyable as it was back when I arrived in 2006.

It has been a wonderful season for us, and I am especially delighted that for a second year our Lady Helen team has achieved its much coveted Michelin Star. Cormac and his team truly deliver a magical culinary experience for all our guests, if you have not tried the Lady Helen then you should!

Inside the winter edition of the Estate Newsletter you will enjoy articles and photos of the many different aspects of life at Mount Juliet, along with some of the other activities you may enjoy when visiting.

Welcome to Mount Juliet once again, relax, make the most of all we have to offer and have a wonderful experience.

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In this Issue Cormac Rowe, Michelin Star Chef ........................................................................

Des McGrath, Estate Host ..........................................................................................

Fishing on the River Nore ..........................................................................................

The Early Days of Mount Juliet House ...............................................................

A Guide to Mount Juliet Walking Trails .............................................................

Family Stays, a Wonderful Week at Mount Juliet ........................................

A Day in the Life of the Equestrian Centre .....................................................

Photos from 2014 Events ..........................................................................................

Golf Notes ...........................................................................................................................

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William Kirby, General Manager

Cormac Rowe, Michelin Star Chef The joys of television production often lend certain days an air of unreality. We were delighted when esteemed chef Neven Maguire came to Mount Juliet to acknowledge the Lady Helen’s Michelin Star and filmed a piece for his TV show.

With lights blazing and cameras rolling, it wasn’t exactly the sort of action Cormac Rowe, Executive Chef, felt overly comfortable with. But such is life; when you make a splash, you have to allow for getting wet.

(L to R) Cormac Rowe; Executive Chef, Neven Maguire, William Kirby

As Cormac put it, “That’s the thing with a Michelin star.

Getting it is one job. Keeping it is a thousand more.”

“We just don’t want to let it go now. We are delighted that we have received the award for a second year.

“It’s always about getting better. How do we make the bread better? How do we serve this dish better or that ingredient? I’d like to think we’re constantly evolving and never going backwards. There’s never a certainty with Michelin.”

You never know when the inspectors are coming. Start thinking that way and the focus comes off the menu.

And the menu is everything!

“The menu is constantly changing. We never look at a whole menu change in one go, we take it dish by dish.

We develop a dish over a number of weeks, trying different things with it, different combinations and methods. Everything changes with the seasons and with what we have available. It’s a matter of keeping the consistency.

“There’s a difference between going for something and then trying to maintain it. Before, there was always this thing that you might get away with certain things but now you can’t. You don’t ever want to make mistakes but now it feels like it matters that bit more because you have something to lose. People have expectations of a Michelin Star restaurant and that’s the great thing about it. I don’t think we’ve changed much because we were always looking to succeed anyway.

“The goal is always to cook better food and to improve constantly but what the Michelin does is actually give you a benchmark. It reminds you of a level that you actually hit. Sometimes you wouldn’t be sure of where you stood compared to other places but this is a benchmark and no matter how much you tell yourself it doesn’t matter, once you have that benchmark to try and hit you know well that it does. Otherwise you wouldn’t try to keep hitting it.”

For all their professionalism, the sense of elation when the news came through was very real. Cormac and his team had been seriously striving towards the accolade for a number of years and to get it eventually meant that not only had they worked hard, they had done it the right way.

“Before it happened, it’s what we were working towards,” says Cormac. “It’s a massive pat on the back for everyone here who had put their heart and soul into it. But if you see it as the finish line, then you sort of lose your way. It’s more that it has given everyone something to go on now. It’s business as usual but that business has changed a little bit. It’s about pushing but pushing on from a definite point. It’s a massive thing for people to have.

Cormac Rowe; Executive Chef

For more information on the Lady Helen restaurant or to book a table please call reception on 056 777 3000 Page 3 Mount Juliet Estate Winter 2014

Des McGrath – Estate Host These grounds contain stories going back a half a millennium but you’re not going to dig them out of the garden or pluck bricks from the walls like books from the library.

Instead, you should seek out Des McGrath, who will do all of that for you and much, much more. Des is our Estate Host here at Mount Juliet and 90 minutes in his company will bring you through the centuries and open your eyes to the vast history of the estate.

“Every day I walk inside the gate here, I’m walking back in time,” he says. “That’s how I feel about it. When I go home, I go home drained. I put so much effort into making it memorable for the guests that the day flies by. You’re a sort of an entertainer to a point.

“I never had any interest in history in my lifetime. Even going to school, I had no interest in it. I liked geography but not history. But since I started this job, I have a bug.

The more I find out, the more I want to find out.

“I was a sales rep for 30 years. I came here about 9 years ago as a part-time Caddymaster. One day about 3 years ago, I was called into the office and asked if I’d like to take over this job. So I said I’d have a go and the more I learned about the place, the more I got hooked on it.”

Des takes you into the house and walks through the history of the place. Every painting has a story, every table and feature. The fireplaces, he informs us, were all designed, manufactured and installed by two Scottish brothers, William and Robert Adams, in 1890.

There’s a fireplace in every room downstairs and with the exception of the one in the Lady Helen restaurant, they’re all active.

“The marble in them is Italian Carrara,” says Des. “The black marble on the hearths is Kilkenny marble. And Kilkenny marble is actually polished limestone.”

We move on into the library where Des tells the story of the huge auction held by the McCalmont family when they were selling up in 1987. Sotheby’s came to conduct the auction, which lasted a week, selling china, vases, books and furniture and so much more.

Including a lot of the house’s art, which gave rise to the most extraordinary tale Des tells.

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“There was a portrait of Captain Cook hanging on one of the landings upstairs,” he says. “It wasn’t a huge painting by any means, just normal size. It was taken down here to the library and Sotheby’s put a value on it of between £300 and £450 for the last night of the auction. They never knew what they had. They were here to get items sold and they didn’t know about this painting’s history at all.

“It was sold that night, bought by the Waverley Gallery in London who were prepared to pay £27,000 for it. It had been hanging on the walls here for 90 years, since 1897. It had soot and dust on it from all the fires and candles.

“And nobody but the Waverley Gallery knew what they had. And boy did they know what they had. The Waverley Gallery took it away, cleaned it up and resold it two months later for £600,000. Today, that portrait is hanging in the Maritime Museum in Greenwich in London. And the reason it was so valuable was that it was the actual portrait painting of Captain Cook in 1727 on board HMS Resolution on his voyage of discovery.” Incredible! On and on we go, his stories never drying up, his answers ready for any and all questions that might arise.

Des is renowned for his estate tours. “We take six people in the car and I usually start in the Manor House. with a 25-minute tour of the rooms. We go round by the lakes, up to the home of the Kilkenny hunt to see the hounds, then into the equestrian centre, into the gardens and the stud farm. The whole thing takes about 90 minutes in total and as I go along, I give them the history of the place as a running commentary.”

“This is my third year doing it. I only live five minutes away but I knew none of the history of the place before I came to work here. And I’ve picked it up along the way both from my predecessor and through research I’ve done myself. The knowledge would all be first hand, from people who live in the area and people who worked here down the years. By the end of it, I hope people have a better idea of where it is they are.”

Fishing on the River Nore One of the most peaceful yet eventful activities at Mount Juliet is the fishing we provide. Be it on the River Nore or by one of our three lakes, we provide game angling at its very best, with wild Atlantic Salmon and Brown Trout angling guaranteeing an exhilarating experience for the many anglers who have discovered the estate.

In a country famous for the quality of its angling, it is still rare for visitors to achieve the combination of delights found along the Nore at Mount Juliet. Fishing tuition is also available, be it to learn the craft of fly fishing, whether fishing for salmon or trout. “Guests and members of the club can fish the river for salmon from the 17th of March up until the 30th of September,” says Estate Host Des McGrath. “Or they can fish the lakes the whole year round. We have people staying here in the hotel or in the private houses and they’re entitled to fish away.

“A truck arrives with the fish in three plastic containers.

There’d be around 300 fish in them, all around a half-pound weight. So when they’re introduced to the water, we put them in at intervals because if we just threw them all in together, they’d stick together as a shoal.

“You take it to different parts of the lakes and over the next three days you feed them with pellets because they’re after coming out of a fish farm. And after three days then, they start to feed naturally on the plankton and weeds of the lakes. The water that comes into the lakes comes from tributaries to the Nore.”

For more information or if you would like to try it out, just contact reception on 056 777 3000.

“And if they need to be togged out with waders, boots, rods, spinners or flies, we provide them. We’ll make up the flies for them in the fishing room. I fish myself whenever I get the chance – usually at about eight o’clock at night when all the work is done!”

No effort or expense is spared in order to keep the lakes well-stocked so as to provide a pleasant experience for guests and members, as Des explains.

“The two lakes can be fished year round and are stocked three times a year with brown and rainbow trout. The third lake doesn’t need to be stocked because it has coarse fish in it, like rudd, roach and bream. It’s more competition fishing down there than anything else. The guys who fish down there just want to catch, measure and weigh and then they’ll throw it back in.

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The Early Days of Mount Juliet House An extract from Mount Juliet: A History

Entering the estate at Thomastown Gate, the visitor to Mount Juliet House passes first through thick woods.

Then a lovely view opens up to the west where the house rises on a hill across the river, its high-pitched roof and massive chimney stacks visible from a distance.

The driveway winds through flowery meadows giving way to green paddocks, and between giant copper beeches to the bridge below the house.

The architect is not known but this architectural gem has retained its classical aspect despite improvements to the structure over the past 100 years. Burke’s Guide to Country Houses (1978) dates it as being middle to late-18th century and describes the exterior: ‘Of three storeys over a basement; front of seven bays between two shallow curved bows, each having three windows.

One bay central breakfront, with Venetian windows in the two upper storeys above tripartite pedimented and fanlighted doorway. Centre window in two lower storeys of bows roundheaded. Perron and double steps in front of entrance door, with iron railings…’

Mount Juliet House (circa 1930)

The interior of the house was completed by the second Earl, Henry Thomas Butler, who employed leading craftsmen of the time to decorate all the main rooms with the most exquisite plasterwork imaginable, from the early stucco work in the anteroom to the right of the entrance hall, thought to be by Patrick Osborne of Waterford, to the very rich ornamentation of the Page 6 Mount Juliet Estate Winter 2014

principal rooms in the style of the celebrated Dublin stuccodore Michael Stapleton. In the large dining room the ceiling is decorated with blue, yellow, pink and palest green plasterwork, and the walls have delicate medallions with classical reliefs.

The craftsman in this case may have been the unnamed stuccodore who decorated the Butler Ormonds’ townhouse in Patrick Street, Kilkenny. Diners may notice that the figure of Justice is not wearing her blindfold!

The second Earl married in 1774, the year that the stuccodores were busy at Mount Juliet. His bride was Sarah Taylor, a County Limerick heiress who had a lively interest in decorating and finishing the house.

The Earl was very much a hands-on proprietor and, according to his near neighbour William Tighe of Woodstock, was the only constantly resident nobleman in Kilkenny at that time. After the repeated confiscations of Irish lands, by the early 18th century most large estates in Ireland were Protestant-owned and many landlords were absentees, managing their properties through middlemen. Lord Carrick was a notable exception. For example, when the Nore flooded, causing widespread loss in 1787, he organised a remarkably successful subscription. Everyone got eight shillings for every £1-worth of damage and severe cases got more.

In the 19th century the finances of the Earls of Carrick declined and estates had to be sold. Extravagance and unwise investments were main causes, and religiosity too. The high-living third Earl, Somerset Richard, who was a friend of ‘Prinny’ the Prince Regent (George IV) left large debts in 1838. The fourth Earl died in childhood.

Somerset Arthur, the fifth Earl, who was the last of the Carricks to reside full-time at the house, left his personal wealth away from Mount Juliet, outside the family. A dashing young man, fond of hunting, he joined the Grenadier Guards and went off to the Crimean War. His services to Thomastown included founding the town’s National School (Church of Ireland). The fifth Earl did not marry and became reclusive, with hardly anyone being invited to the house.

Remembered as a white-haired old gentleman who sometimes drove out in a phaeton with a groom and a pair of smart cobs, he bequeathed much of his private fortune to the Plymouth Brethren, an evangelical religious movement whose adherents believe in the Bible’s literal truth.

It was founded in Dublin in 1828 and led by a former Anglican clergyman John Nelson Darby, son of a wealthy landowner and well connected – his godfather was Admiral Nelson and his brother-in-law was Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. Darby himself lived a simple life.

The cost of educating his children was said to be a factor in Lord Carrick’s decision to sell up.

Sir Hugh immediately began improving the house and demesne. His wife, the Hon. Rose Bingham, had great taste and it was she who collected and installed the fine Adam-style marble chimney pieces which are a focal point of almost every room in the house.

Their son, Major Dermot McCalmont, who in 1906 had come into a fortune worth £100,000 per annum, in the 1920s changed the main access from the original entrance on the front facing the river to the back, the west side.

Behind the handsome bifurcating staircase with an unusual balustrade of slender uprights, he built a porch and he also added a ballroom, reached by a curving corridor, where numerous splendid balls were held over the next decades. The library was later remodelled

by Don O’Neill Flanagan.

Photograph of the McCalmont children

In the 1930s Marguerite Solly-Flood was engaged to lay out a series of gardens near the house. It is something of a miracle, and a tribute to the skills and dedication of the owners, the architects and the tradesmen who made these changes – and later changes, when the house became a hotel with all the luxuries and conveniences of modern living – that the essential character of the house has been so successfully preserved.

By the time Somerset Arthur died in 1901 all the Kilkenny estates had been sold except Mount Juliet.

His cousin, Major Charles Henry Butler, succeeded as sixth Earl. Already middle aged, Major Charles handed Mount Juliet over to his son Somerset Charles, Viscount Ikerrin, who succeeded as the seventh Earl in 1909. He in turn not being able to keep up the place, first leased it to Major-Gen. Sir Hugh McCalmont and then sold it to him, outright.

Marguerite Solly-Flood and the gardening staff at the distinctive Walled Garden feature, 1930 - photo credit unknown

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Walking Trails at Mount Juliet

Boher Gates

Main Entrance (Oldtown Gate)

M9 and Kilkenny

The great Boston comedian Steven Wright said it best. Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

On the Mount Juliet estate, if you have the time, we have the walks. Be it a quick stroll over to Walton’s Grove and back that you’re after or a hike around the hills and dales of our world-renowned golf course, the one thing we’ll never be short of is land for under your feet. All you need is the right footwear and a sense of adventure. Leave the rest to nature.

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a two-year-old and retired here the following year. Head on through the crossroads towards the river and you will come to the Equestrian Centre’s cross country course.

Key Paddocks and river walk Boher trail Between the river & the lakes

Follow the river along past oaks that have been overlooking this place for 250 years and wend your way back to the House.

Golf trail Walton’s Grove trail Roads through Estate Residential Golf course Mount Juliet House; Lady Helen Restaurant, Tetrarch Bar, Fishing Room Hunters Yard ; Kendals Restaurant Presidents Bar

Boher Trail (Just over an hour) Explore that little bit deeper, taking the paddock walk and branching off it to find the estate’s fairy wrath. It’s in the second field to your left as you leave the main gate to the estate behind you. Keep the pedestrian gate to your left and head for the cross-country course, heading back towards the river as you go.

You’ll eventually come to the white bridge and see the House off up the hill. You will have earned whatever tincture awaits after this one.

Leisure Centre Spa Golf Shop

NOTE Boots are recommended as some walks may be muddy!

You may need to step aside to let horses pass on some parts of the equestrian trails

Walton’s Grove Trail (30 minutes) The shortest of our walks, although it loses nothing in beauty for its brevity. Great if you just want to fill the lungs and take in the sweep of the scenery without overly taxing yourself. Head out to the right from the front door of Mount Juliet House and aim for Jeff’s Cascade.

The trail takes you down through woodland and along the River Nore with Walton’s Grove on your left, looping back to the House when you come to the white bridge.

Paddocks and River Walk (About an hour)

The history of the estate walks with you, past trees and bridges that have stood here since the middle of the 18th century. Strike out for the river and head for Ballylinch Stud, home to equine excellence for 100 years.

In 1913, world-famous colt The Tetrarch was unbeaten as

Golf Trail (Just over an hour) Mark Twain called golf a good walk spoiled. Well, why spoil it then? Take in the sights and sounds of our world-renowned Jack Nicklaus golf course without ever having to swing a club in anger.

Start by heading down along the river, keeping it on your left until you come to the three lakes just before the golf academy. Round the lakes and follow the trail on around and up the hill with the second, third and fourth holes of the course on your left.

Find your way back to the house, finishing as you pass the 18th and 9th greens. Then head for the 19th hole – you’ve earned it just as much as the golfers.

Between the River and the Lakes (A little less than an hour)

The start is the same as the Golf Trail but eventually you pass by rather more earthy sporting pursuits. Depending on the time of year, fishermen will stand their stoic posts down along the banks of the Nore as you go about your way.

Continue along the lake shore back towards the House, keeping the golf course on your left hand-side. Breath the air and feed the soul

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Family Stays A wonderful Week of Fun Families staying at Mount Juliet for 7 night stays can enjoy a wide variety of activities on site.

Cinema Night Twice during the week the kids enjoy the cinema night which takes place at the Little Rascals. The children enjoy popcorn and a drink and sit down in the Kids Club Cinema room for the best childrens movies.

Pony Club This will probably be the first time the younger children have been on or near a horse. In a safe environment the children get to enjoy their first equestrian experience. The pony club is always a huge hit with the kids which includes general equestrian instruction plus an introduction to the equipment used. The children are accompanied by their parents during the hour long lesson.

Magic Show The magic show is one of the new activities at Mount Juliet. This 45 minute show demonstrates some real magic and some fake magic which the children can try at home. The kids really enjoy this show especially when the magician tries to pretend that the trick is either finished or has gone slightly wrong. Even the adults don't know how the magician is doing some of the magic.

Nature Trail The nature trail starts at Mount Juliet house overlooking the river and proceeds down the avenue, into the woods. Des, the estate host, gives each of the children an activity work sheet with a list of items to look out for on the trail. He then brings the families on an educational and fun tour of the estate. Along the way Des will show different types of trees, plants and how animals and birds use this material for feeding and nesting.

For the adults this is a great time to enjoy a walk and meet the other parents along the way. It is an enjoyable trek for young and old, and takes about an hour.

At the end of the nature trail each child gets a certificate of completion.

Jeff Howes and the Under 15 golf team Page 10 Mount Juliet Estate Winter 2014

Junior Golf Clinic Sean Cotter the resident professional at Mount Juliet runs a junior golf clinic twice during the week. The kids are assembled in the covered driving bays and allocated a club and golf balls. From that point Sean will show them how to hold the club, address the ball and hopefully hit some successful golf shots onto the target fairways. It doesn't matter if you don't play golf, it is just about having fun.

Photography Photography lessons take place every Thursday from 11am-12 noon. These lessons are designed to give children from six upwards, an understanding of photography and is aimed at improving the way they take photos. All the children get a 20 minute lesson before heading outside (weather dependant) to take some photos in the gardens. Everyone then goes back inside to review the photos. By reviewing the photos the children can see their best shots plus ways to improve on their shooting style.

Fishing The children have the opportunity to take in some fishing at Mount Juliet’s fishing lakes. With all the appropriate equipment like junior sized rods and under the direction of our resident Ghillie the children will be able to fish for trout, bream and rudd amongst others. This is a very exciting activity as it is not every day that children can enjoy the thrill of fishing on such a well stocked lake.

The Ghillies will help with casting and with how to attract and lure the fish. Hopefully at the dinner table there won't be any tales of the one that got away!

Putting Competition The putting competition takes place on the 18 hole putting course which faces Mount Juliet House. This putting course was the venue for the World Putting Championships and is a challenging but fun activity.

The competition runs from Monday to Friday and the children accompanied by an adult will have the chance to play the course and submit their best score to the golf shop.

For more details of Week Long Family Stays at Mount Juliet, please visit www.mountjuliet.ie/family-stays

Celebrate your special occasion at Mount Juliet Occasions are even more special when celebrated at Mount Juliet.

You can rely on our events team to help you with every aspect of your celebration.

Our venues can cater for birthdays, christenings, communions, confirmations, as well as engagement celebrations, anniversaries, retirement parties and corporate functions.

Whether you are looking for an intimate dinner for 12 or a party for 160 we can accommodate groups of all sizes.

For more details contact our events team on 056 777 3013 or email events@mountjuliet.ie

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A Day In The Life of the Equestrian Centre Jenny Reid Normally, a day starts at 7:30 in the morning. We come in, muck out, feed and prep horses for rides which usually happen between 10.30 and 3.30 every day.

Later rides can be arranged too. A typical day would involve up to six hours in the saddle for staff when we’re busy.

We offer a mix of trails, cross country, lunge lessons – basically anything that an equestrian person is interested in, we will accommodate. Most people who come here are on holiday and many of them are repeat guests. So we offer up to three hours for experienced guests and that will be a mix of lessons and trails on the estate.

We have access to 16 miles of bridle paths on the grounds and they are so beautiful that you want to get people out there rather than staying in the arena all the time. You can do a lesson anywhere so why not use what we have?

I’ve always been involved in horses since I was knee high. I have four horses myself so I try to juggle the four of them with my job here. On my days off, I go competing and I exercise my own horses to keep them ticking over. It’s a seven-day week, but it’s great.

When you love horses, you’re prepared to take that on.

The biggest thing here is actually getting people to realise what a lovely equestrian centre we have. Once they hear that we’re there, they’re very keen to come and try it. We get people who have never sat in a saddle before all the way up to very experienced riders who just want to go, go, go for as many hours as possible.

We tailor rides for experienced people, offering them a varied experience, with faster rides and more jumping involved to satisfy their every requirement. We always consult with them in advance to get an idea of what they want to get out of it.

It’s one of the most popular activities on the estate. We get a lot of return guests, people who want to come back specifically for the horse they were on the first time. They ask for them by name a lot of the time.

The one thing we try to do very much is keep the groups small. It’s more comfortable when there are three or four in a group. That’s not to say we won’t take a group of six or eight if that’s what people want but in general we like to try and keep it small and keep it personal.

There are five of us in total working in the centre. We’ll have three full-time normally in the summer and the rest are part time, coming in when necessary.

When I buy a horse I buy from individuals directly so I can take a horse on trial, which is very important here because we need to get the horse in and try it to make sure it’s comfortable in its new environment. We also need to make sure that it suits each different level of rider – complete beginner to advanced rider.

It’s difficult to find horses that tick every box but the girls all work together to make sure we get the best horses to suit our needs and those of our guests.

I started in May 2008 and was thrown straight in as the opening of the new facility was in June of that year. I studied in Grennan Equestrian Centre in Thomastown and did all the British Horse Society exams, before completing a HND in Equine Management. After the exams I worked in Grennan and was there for nine years before I came to Mount Juliet.

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Caesar Retires Caesar came to the old stable yard in Mount Juliet in the summer of 2000 as a five year old. He was bought from a local man Pat Loughlan in Gowran. From the moment he arrived in the yard he liked to make his presence known. From kicking at his door non-stop until he was fed or got some attention, to eventually learning to open his own door at night and escape into the yard to let a few of his buddies out, Caesar’s presence was always felt.

Caesar served the Equestrian Centre at Mount Juliet extremely well over the years, from doing trail rides to lessons to cross country, he could do it all. In his spare time besides relaxing in the fields, he liked to go to local shows, sponsored rides and an odd days hunting.

Caesar retired from the yard this year, and has gone to a lovely new home where he can take life a little easier and be spoilt rotten, which is well deserved. He is missed in the yard but will hopefully pop in for a visit every now and then.

Height: 16.3 H.H

Age: 19yrs, Gelding

Breed: Draught Cross

Caesar with the staff and guests of Mount Juliet Equestrian Centre

Put the Happy into Any Occasion with a Gift Voucher from Mount Juliet Enjoy a weekend break at Mount Juliet, 18 holes on the award winning golf course, dinner in the multi award winning Lady Helen restaurant or simply a monetary voucher which can be spent anywhere on the Estate

With a Mount Juliet Gift Voucher there are many choices

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Members Events 2014 Photos from the various members events during 2014

Captain’s Prize

Captain Finbarr O’Neill and Lady Captain Rebecca Nixon

Vice Captain Laurence Shields with Paula and Ray Moore

Helen Hedigan, Elizabeth Hedigan and Geraldine Higgins

Sally Gleeson, Brona Reidy, Margaret Twomey

County Colours Day

Ladies Pink Day

County Colours Day (from left), Blaise Brosnan(Rosslare), Captain Finbarr O’Neill, Terry Carroll (Royal Dublin), Arthur Quinn (Coolattin)

Lady Captain Rebecca Nixon organiser of the Ladies Pink Day which raised over €4,600 for the Cancer Clinical Research Trust.

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Fred Daly Team

Golf Notes Fixture List The fixtures for the coming months are shown below.

JANUARY 2015 Thursday Saturday Sunday Sunday Thursday Sunday

1 3 11 18 22 25

** - Draw takes place outside Golf Shop

New Year’s Day Captain and Lady Captain’s Drive In Winter League * 1 Member & 1 Guest, Fourball Stableford (2 tee start) Thyestes Chase, Gowran Park Races Winter League

FEBRUARY 2015 Sunday 1 Friday 6 Saturday 7 Sunday 8 Saturday 14

Sunday

15

Saturday 21 Sunday 22 Saturday 28

Winter League Wales v England (Rugby), Spike Bar, 8.00pm Italy v Ireland (Rugby), Spike Bar, 2.30pm France v Scotland (Rugby), Spike Bar, 5pm Winter League Run Mount Juliet – 3k, 10k and Half Marathon Course Closed Gowran Park Races England v Italy (Rugby), Spike Bar, 2.30pm Ireland v France (Rugby), Spike Bar, 5pm * 1 Member & 1 Guest, Fourball Stableford Scotland v Wales (Rugby), Spike Bar, 3pm Golf Team Practice Day (Men and Women) Winter League Golf Team Practice Day (Men and Women) Scotland v Italy (Rugby), Spike Bar, 2.30pm France v Wales (Rugby), Spike Bar, 5pm

MARCH 2015 Sunday

1

Saturday Sunday Tuesday Saturday

7 8 10 14

Sunday

15

Tuesday 17 Saturday 21

Sunday Monday Sunday Monday

22 23 29 30

Winter League Ireland v England (Rugby), Spike Bar, 3pm Gowran Park Races * 1 Member & 1 Guest, Fourball Stableford Cheltenham Festival of Racing Wales v Ireland (Rugby), Spike Bar, 2.30pm England v Scotland (Rugby), Spike Bar, 5pm Winter League Final Italy v France (Rugby), Spike Bar, 3pm St. Patrick’s Day - Bank Holiday Gowran Park Races Italy v Wales (Rugby), Spike Bar, 12.30pm Scotland v Ireland (Rugby), Spike Bar, 2.30pm England v France (Rugby), Spike Bar, 5pm March Monthly Medal Ladies Morning 9 holes (draw for partners at 9.15am) ** * 1 Member & 1 Guest, Fourball Stableford Ladies Morning 9 holes (draw for partners at 9.15am) **

Left to right: Timmy Howes, Brian Staunton, Jack Cullen, Connor Mulholland, John Hession, Ned Kirwan, Tim Ferris.

The Mount Juliet Fred Daly team played excellent golf and qualified as one of only two teams out of eleven in their section.

They lost a hard fought match against a very strong Kilkenny team but did Mount Juliet proud with their effort and true sportsmanship. The experience will stand to them for the next few years as this is a very young team.

Past Captains Day, May 2014

Looking for some help with your Golf Game?

Sean Cotter, our resident Golf Professional, provides customised golf tuition programmes and golf clinics, ideal for improving your golf game.

Golf tuition gift vouchers are also available.

Contact

Jeff Howes and the Under 15 golf team Email : scotter@mountjuliet.ie Phone : 087 6289712

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Mount Juliet Golf Membership Now Available Individual Membership for only â‚Ź1,950

2015 Membership Benefits include; Access to the Jack Nicklaus designed championship course Mount Juliet Golf Club members can avail of preferential rates throughout the Estate Introduce a friend with full playing rights for only â‚Ź750 Many organised social events for members throughout the year

Competitive corporate and junior membership packages available For details contact Lisa Fitzgerald E-mail lfitzgerald@mountjuliet.ie or phone 056 777 3060 www.mountjuliet.ie