2,500 golf fans set to attend Irish Open at County Kilkenny course

Only about 2,500 fans will be allowed in to watch the Irish Open at Mount Juliet.

5,000 people a day are allowed into the venue for the four-day competition which starts tomorrow week (1st July).

But Mount Juliet‘s General Manager Mark Dunne says that half that number will be used up by the staff, volunteers, officials and players each day.

He’s been chatting with our Sue Nunn on The Way It Is – listen back here: