Hotel, medical firms to create 450 jobs

MORE than 450 jobs were announced yesterday with three medical companies and an American hotel chain planning major expansions of their businesses in Ireland.

Choice Hotel, an American budget chain, said it was planning to build five new hotels in Ireland in a €115 million investment in the country over the next couple of years.

The company, which owns the Comfort Inn Hotels brands, said it was planning two hotels in Dublin at Smithfield and Kingswood and one each in Cork, Limerick and Portlaoise.