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TGJ Podcast 53

The Pandemic Diary

No place is safe from the ravages of the COVID-19 virus, even host Tom Coyne’s beloved Carne Golf Links on the remote Western coast of Ireland

“Then the staff emerged and asked us to have a farewell drink in the members bar. Despite losing their jobs and income, they were all so positive, just wanting to get the shutdown over with and come back to work. I went home drained and worried, still feeling as if I let everyone down.”

Gerry Maguire

No place is safe from the ravages of the COVID-19 virus, even host Tom Coyne’s beloved Carne Golf Links on the remote Western coast of Ireland. The shutdown there has left scores unemployed and the course’s future in doubt. Carne chairman Gerry Maguire takes us there as he reads from the personal diary he kept during a week from hell.