Companies fail in bid for ruling on whether their rights breached

A number of companies of hotelier Johnny Moran have failed in their bid to ask a court to decide whether their property and equality rights were breached when the former Anglo Irish Bank appointed a receiver over hotels and restaurants they operated.

The companies owned and managed the Holiday Inn in Pearse Street, Dublin, two restaurants in Dublin including Tante Zoe’s in Temple Bar, and the Blarney Inn in Kildare Street with its associated nightclub “Club Nassau”.

A receiver was appointed last year to Citywide Leisure Ltd, Blarney Inn Ltd, BCGM Ltd, JRM Hotels Ltd after Anglo, now the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (IBRC) called in loans which the companies could not pay. Mr Moran is a director and shareholder of the companies.