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Killarney Golf & Fishing Club for a Party?

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  • 22-04-2013 3:01pm
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    Big Mouth
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    I will be helping to organize party at a function room in Killarney golf club the thing is I have never attended a party at a golf club and I know some others are thinking its full of stuffy middle aged men and there will be lots of rules etc. Fair enough its probably a bit of ignorance about golf clubs but people are saying it.

    I know people will want to let their hairdown and enjoy themselves with some music and people or would feel the place is quite conservative and act accordingly?


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    dmeehan
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    Read this first before you book anything: http://www.radiokerry.ie/news/workers-at-killarney-golf-club-vote-overwhelmingly-for-strike-action/


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    fredash
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    Hi When exactly are you planning the Party,
    I run the functions at the Club,


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    68Murph68
    Registered Users Posts: 583 ✭✭✭68Murph68


    Big Mouth wrote: »
    I will be helping to organize party at a function room in Killarney golf club the thing is I have never attended a party at a golf club and I know some others are thinking its full of stuffy middle aged men and there will be lots of rules etc. Fair enough its probably a bit of ignorance about golf clubs but people are saying it.

    I know people will want to let their hairdown and enjoy themselves with some music and people or would feel the place is quite conservative and act accordingly?


    It depends on what type of function and what sort of age profile you're looking at - wake, wedding, birthday?

    Chances are it would be in the restaurant/function rather than the club bar or the back bar.

    Wouldn't think the golf club is massively stuffy but it's obviously not a disco either. Not a member but the parents are. I think kids under 10 arent allowed in the club bar unaccompanied at any stage.

    I have been in there (club house) with my nephew (3 years old) on a couple of occasion. On two separate occasions he was running around a small bit but no-one really took any notice.

    Once we were upstairs outside the bar and were waiting for my dad outside the bar and he was playing on the wheelchair ramp - not loudly or out-of-control, just constantly up and down the wheelchair slope and no-one seemed to have an issue with that, even the staff who were bringing food from the kitchen to the bar. I was a bit mindful of having him there but it was raining out and the father was taking an age (stuck talking to someone inside) I did make sure to tell him to stop moving when the wait staff were passing by in my SERIOUS VOICE [which he did as he knows that uncle Murph68 won't take any guff from him]

    The other occasion he was in the golf stop downstairs and was in less energetic mood and in more of a looking-at-stuff/exploring/ picking up things mood. Lad in the shop had no problem with him.

    I think that fact that the way they treated some unknown guy (no-one in the club would have known me from Adam, would probably know the parents) with a young kid would give some insight into how they treat people generally.

    If you're talking about music I'd imagine a key consideration would be how loud. Chances are if you are in the function room you would be pretty apart from the rest of the golfers. As long as the noise wasn't too loud and as long as the guests were behaving reasonably I don't think there would be a major issue.

    Another key issue for me is the age profile. I wouldn't recommend it for an event where there were kids unless their was a dedicated individual to supervise them properly, who was separate from the function i.e. a proper babysitter/childminder as opposed to having a gang of kids with their parents busy socialising and assuming that because the kids are withing earshot that is sufficient supervision. There is a back bar that the young-ones could be kept to, but if they were kids running all around the club house unsupervised, I wouldn't blame members for getting annoyed.

    I really doubt that there would be a vast array of rules and as long as people behave respectable you would most likely have no problem.

    Give Respect, Get Respect.

    Given the state of the club's finances, I'd imagine that overall most of the members and staff would be glad of the business.


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