North Dublin’s Roganstown Hotel & Country Club drives greener ways for the Irish golf and hospitality industry.
Boasting not one but two golf courses, Roganstown Hotel & Country Club is pitching itself as Ireland’s first ever carbon negative hotel and golf club after investing €1m to become more environmentally sustainable.
Roganstown Hotel & Country Club originally opened in 2004 and has since grown to employ over 70 staff and generate €5m in annual turnover.
“It’s important to bring the Irish golf industry into the future and in order to ethically do that, golf venues across Ireland need to consider how to operate in a modern way that protects our environment”
In 2021, Roganstown was the first ever Irish golf venue to employ the services of GreenClub, which is a principal partner of the PGA and is committed to improving sustainability in the golf industry.
The house itself dates back to approximately 1820, with the property and surrounding land steeped in history back to Norman times.
Green ambition
Today, Roganstown Hotel & Country club is operated by CEO Ian McGuiness, who transformed the farmland which had been worked by his stepfather’s family since 1916, into an incomparable hospitality and golf offering in North County Dublin.
In 2022 the business identified it had carbon emissions of around 518 tonnes.
This prompted an ambitious investment of around €1m that saw the installation of 250 solar panels, woodchip boiler, robot mowers and waste improvements reduced carbon emissions by approximately 237 tonnes, Bringing the 518 tonnes down to 281 tonnes, a reduction of approximately 46%.
The 65,000 trees on the property sequester an estimated 325 tonnes of carbon annually, offsetting the remaining 281 tonnes of carbon and annually sequestering approximately 44 tonnes of carbon on the property.
“Traditionally people may envision hotels and golf courses as mass consumers of energy with things such as keeping the grass perfect, however mass energy consumption doesn’t have to be the case,” said McGuinness.
“Over the past few years we have heavily invested in not only improvements but also green practices.
“We are futureproofing, but we are also conscious that guests consider the green practices of where they visit and we want to meet the needs of our guests at every point. We have always been conscious or protecting the local environment, we have been planting trees for 20 years and now have planted over 65,000 on the property.
“It’s important to bring the Irish golf industry into the future and in order to ethically do that, golf venues across Ireland need to consider how to operate in a modern way that protects our environment. I’m keen for Roganstown to be at the forefront of a move towards greener ways.”
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