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Tue 04 Apr 2007Fading lightsPhilip Reidon the marked slowdown in the number of new courses being built in Ireland, and other signs that the boom times are, if not over, certainly waningPrivately, many of those who operate golf courses in Ireland will tell you that the good times, such as they were, are over. Such sentiments, though, won't - or, maybe, can't - be uttered publicly for fear that they are letting the side down, or putting bad vibes into what has been unquestionably one of the successes of the Celtic Tiger era.