Doyles win battle for Jurys group

THE Doyle family won control of the Jurys hotel group last night after agreeing to buy the 8.3% stake in the company owned by reclusive builder Liam Carroll.

Mr Carroll has sold half of his stake to JDH Acquisitions, the investment vehicle controlled by the Doyle sisters Bernie Gallagher, Anne Roche and Eileen Monahan, and has given an irrevocable undertaking to sell the remaining shares.

The deal will push the 48% stake owned by the Doyles and their associates past the 50.1% required to take the company. It also ends the hopes of Sean Dunne, who has a 28% stake in Jurys, of making a winning bid himself.