Article: The not-so-special K Club as golf resort hawks its 'exclusive' homes as timeshare.(News)

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The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
Article date:
September 13, 2009
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Byline: Valerie Hanley

IT was the ultimate in Celtic Tiger extravagance and you cartainly had to be super-rich to have one of its 'billionaire's row' pads. But those days are well and truly gone, because the K Club is about to become a timeshare resort.

Management are describing their cut-price sale as 'fractional living' to keep up appearances with owners of golf club properties, such as developer Sean Dunne and horse breeder John Magnier.

Owned by tax-exile paper magnate Michael Smurfit, the club has up to 81 apartments and houses which have been on the property market since they were built three years ago.

These will will be flogged ...

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