Jurys checks out of Limerick hotel

LIMERICK saw its second major hotel transaction in less than a year yesterday, when Jurys Doyle sold its hotel in the city for €9.75 million.

The group said the 95-bedroom hotel no longer fitted with its overall strategic plan of operating larger hotels and will instead concentrate its Limerick business on its Jurys Inn at Lower Mallow Street, which opened in 1997.

The hotel's new owner is John Lally, a Galway hotelier and property developer. Mr Lally already owns the Harbour Hotel in Galway city, as well as Barnacles budget accommodation centres in Galway and Dublin's Temple Bar.