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RTÉ News
4 days ago
- Business
- RTÉ News
Niall Horan pays himself €2.2m on back of sell out The Show tour
One of Ireland's most successful entertainers, singer-songwriter Niall Horan, last year paid himself €2.2m on the back on a sell out worldwide tour. New accounts filed by the Mullingar man's Jaredon Ltd show that pay at the firm increased by 20% from €1.85m to €2.23m in the 12 months to the end of March 2025. Horan enjoyed the €2.2m pay bonanza after a gruelling tour schedule in 2024 which commenced on February 20, 2024 in Belfast and concluded on October 9 last in Bogota, Colombia. One of the tour venues included New York City's Madison Square Garden where the concert was filmed. Underling how lucrative The Show tour was for the 31 year old, figures from trade industry journal Pollstar show that Horan generated €2.65m at the box office from three shows at the 3Arena in Dublin in 2024. Box office receipts are shared between artist, venue, promoter and ticket seller. Horan - who has amassed 39.3 million followers on X and Instagram and best known for songs like Slow Hands and Nice to Meet Ya - is a regular on Irish Rich List surveys after a career that was launched after securing a place on One Direction in 2010 from his appearance on UK TV show X Factor. In the year under review, Horan's Slow Hands and This Town each passed 1 billion streams on Spotify. Jaredon employs three people including fellow directors and accountants to the stars, Alan McEvoy and Barry Downes from the Limerick-based Livewire Business Management, which specialises in representing well known figures in the music, entertainment and sports industries. Pay to the three totalled €2.32m and included directors' emoluments in respect of qualifying services last year totalling €30,000. Cash funds at the company declined from €1.85m to €106,944. Arising from the €2.32m staff costs, the company recorded a modest loss of €39,863 last year. Accumulated profits at the end of March this year totalled €93,000. Away from the music studio, Horan has been busy investing in the likes of the expanding athleisure Gym+Coffee brand. Horan is also the founder of Modest! Golf Management that counts Ireland's leading female golfer Leona Maguire amongst the growing roster of golfers that it represents. Leona and her sister Lisa Maguire are both on the Modest! Golf Management roster which also includes three time Ryder Cup player, Tyrrell Hatton and young golfing stars including European Tour player Connor Syme, former Walker Cup player Jack Singh Brar, South African Christiaan Bezuidenhout and former Italian number one amateur Guido Migliozzi.
Scotsman
21-07-2025
- Sport
- Scotsman
Hannah Darling joins Ewen Ferguson and Connor Syme in Modest! Golf stable
Scot secures three sponors ahead of her pro debut in ISPS HANDA Women's Scottish Open Sign up to our daily newsletter – Regular news stories and round-ups from around Scotland direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Hannah Darling will be making her professional debut in this week's ISPS HANDA Women's Scottish Open as a new Modest! Golf Management stablemate of Ewen Ferguson and Connor Syme. Darling, who has been handed a sponsor's invitation for the event at Dundonald Links, has been signed by Niall Horan's company after being widely regarded as having real potential as a professional. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Hannah Darling's last amateur outing was for Scotland in the recent European Women's Team Championship in France | Scottish Golf The Broomieknowe player won the Scottish Girls' Championship back-to-back in 2017 and 2018, when she also landed the inaugural staging of The R&A Girls' Under-16s Championship. Darling shone as well during a four-year spell at the University of South Carolina, where, highlighted by a win in the ANNIKA Intercollegiate, she signed off as one of the most decorated players in the programme's history. She represented Great Britain & Ireland three times in the Curtis Cup, including a memorable win with Catriona Matthew as her captain in last year's contest at Sunningdale. Darling, who is making the switch sitting 16th - the second-highest British or Irish player after top-rated Lottie Woad - in the World Amateur Golf Ranking, has secured sponsorship from Vision Scotland, Novellus and Arnold Clark through Modest! Golf. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'It's awesome to be with those guys,' said the 21-year-old. 'They've done a lot of great work for me already by putting all the sponsors in place and everything has been seamless so far.' 'A lot of nice opportunities coming up' Darling will be joining Scottish No 1 Gemma Darling, as well as Kelsey MacDonald, Kylie Henry and Lorna McClymont in flying the Saltire in this week's $2 million event, which has world No 1 Nelly Korda as the star attraction as the American makes her debut in it. 'There's a lot of nice opportunities coming up and it starts this week at the ISPS Handa Women's Scottish Open, which is pretty cool,' said Darling, 'It's nice to see the best of the best are playing and it is exciting to be making my debut against the best players in the game. I feel like this moment has been coming for a long time and now that it has been announced just adds to the excitement. 'My time in America has been brilliant and it has taught me all of the things I needed to learn before embarking on this next stage. I've had great team-mates and great coaches there with me on my journey so far and it has all prepared me for this moment. It has put me in the right place going forward.' Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Hannah Darling helped Great Britain & Ireland win the Curtis Cup at Sunningdale last year | The R&A Woad is also making her professional debut on the Ayrshire coast after signing off her amateur career on a high by winning the KPMG Women's Irish Open by six shots at Carton House earlier this month then coming close to landing a major in The Evian Championship in France the following week. 'Obviously Lottie is incredible,' observed Darling of her 2024 Curtis Cup team-mate and also her room-mate at the recent Vagliano Trophy in the Netherlands, 'but the really cool thing for me is that I feel she is not far away from where I'm at. She does a lot of things really well but, at the same time, she doesn't do other things any better than I do and that's nice to see. It makes me feel confident about the next step.'
Scotsman
10-05-2025
- Sport
- Scotsman
Scottish golfer chasing third title triumph on Hotel Planner Tour
Euan Walker sits just one shot off lead in Challenge de España in Girona Sign up to our daily newsletter – Regular news stories and round-ups from around Scotland direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Euan Walker is one shot off the lead heading into the final round of the Challenge de España as the Scot chases a third win on the Hotel Planner Tour. Walker followed opening rounds of 65 and 67 at Fontanals Golf Club with another 67 in the penultimate circuit to sit on 14 under par. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad The Ayrshireman birdied the fourth, seventh, ninth and tenth before dropping his only shot of the day at the par-3 11th but quickly got that back at the 13th. Euan Walker in action during the third round of the Challenge de Espana at Fontanals Golf Club in Girona |'It was really good today,' he said. 'I played really nicely throughout and made very few mistakes. I actually hit loads of great putts and quite a lot of them didn't go in, but that's just the way it goes after I holed some nice putts over the first two days.' Walker will be in the final group on Sunday with Frenchman Clement Charmasson, who leapt into the lead with a 66, and Swiss Benjamin Rusch, who is on 12 under. 'Yeah, that is exciting,' admitted the 29-year-old. 'It doesn't come round too often, to be honest, being in that position in a tournament. You have got to play close to your best to be there.' Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Walker's group in the third round included home favourite Luis Masaveu, who shared the halfway lead with Swede Oliver Gillberg and is still in the hunt on 12 under. 'That was quite useful because I thought 'you know what, if he takes it out with a few birdies then there's not really much pressure on me' and I had the opportunity to feed off him, which I was able to do on the front nine,' admitted Walker. 'It's very changeable,' he added of the conditions at the Girona venue. 'We played nine holes in almost perfect weather then it got a little colder and windier before it was absolutely horrible for the last three holes and last two in particular. 'I mean, the par I made on 18 was up there with the best pars I have ever made. Every shot was really difficult.' Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Walker made his Hotel Planner Tour breakthrough in the 2022 British Challenge presented by Modest! Golf Management before adding the Swiss Open title last year. 'Try and do exactly the same as I have done the first three days as I have given myself a load of birdie chances,' he said of his plan for the final round on this occasion. After carding a second successive 67, Hotel Planner Tour newcomer Graeme Robertson sits just outside the top 20 on seven under alongside both Jack McDonald and Sam Locke after they carded matching 68s. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Elsewhere, Farmfoods Scottish Challenge champion Brandon Robinson Thompson holds a three-shot lead heading into the final round of the Turkish Airlines Open at Regnum Carya in Belek. Bidding to land a maiden win on the main tour, the Englishman stormed to the top of the leaderboard with a brilliant nine-under-par 62, a course record-equalling effort that was illuminated by an eagle at the 12th. 'The scary part was I probably could have had a few more, but, you know, beggars can't be choosers,' joked Robinson Thompson, who has Spaniard Jorge Campillo, China's Haotong Li and South African Robin Williams chasing him.
