Receiver appointed to two hotels in Lynch group

A RECEIVER has been appointed to two hotels in the Ennis-based Lynch Hotel Group, by Bank of Scotland (Ireland), putting around 100 jobs at risk.

The group — headed by Michael B Lynch — saw a large number of cancellations across its portfolio of seven hotels in the west of the country in the run-up to Christmas, due to the overly harsh weather conditions in November and December. This resulted in nearly 900 bednights lost.

The Lynch Group operates seven hotels — the Clare Inn, Breaffy House, Breaffy Woods, Ocean Cove, The George, the West County and the South Court — across the three counties of Clare, Limerick and Mayo. However, only two of these properties — the Breaffy House Resort in Castlebar and the Clare Inn Hotel in Dromoland — are going into receivership.