(Oct 2024)

Roganstown Hotel & Country Club is the first golfing venue in Ireland to appoint environmental specialists GreenClub as consultants to help fulfil its long-term goal of becoming carbon neutral.

Renowned for offering outstanding golf, leisure and spa facilities, Roganstown is the only golf hotel in North Dublin offering two 18-hole championship golf courses on-site, and the Swords resort has turned to GreenClub to provide a sustainable roadmap across all elements of its business to ensure a greener future.

After carrying out a detailed top-to-toe review of all existing infrastructure and energy provision, the leading environmental specialists will be on hand to help Roganstown to develop environmental strategies to address their current and future business needs.

We have over 70 full time staff on our team with a 50/50 male female split and currently have 15 nationalities on the payroll.

We also have a predominantly local supplier base.

This is a family business and we are very conscious of our responsibility to the environment. We have planted 65,000 trees on the property in the last 20 years, we heat the buildings using renewables (500KW woodchip boiler), generate 25% of our electricity using a solar pv array and cut all of the fairways on the 2 golf courses with robotic mowers saving on fossil fuel usage.

We are proud to have proven that a business can be carbon neutral – and with our trees we actually now sequester more carbon than we produce. Sustainable energy provision and a greener approach to all elements of Roganstown infrastructure is very important to our Directors. All the team at Roganstown is committed to building a brighter and more environmentally friendly future.

We have just signed up with Earthcheck (https://earthcheck.org/), the world’s leading certification, consulting and advisory group for sustainable destinations and tourism organisations.  Earthcheck will independently assess Roganstown’s environmental activities and we will be going through their stringent process in terms of documenting what we’ve done and are continuing to do, where we wish to get to on this journey and how we are progressing.  They will also benchmark us against best practise and guide us through a process of continuous improvement.

Ian McGuinness

CEO