Dublin City Council rejects plans for two hotels

Dublin City Council has given an emphatic no to two separate hotel developers seeking to build tall hotels near Dublin Castle.

The city council has asked the two hoteliers to go back to the drawing board and significantly reduce the height of the planned hotels that are proposed to deliver an additional 239 hotel rooms for Dublin.

In May, the firm that owns the four-star Radisson Blu hotel off South Great George’s St, and owned by Galway-based developers the Rhatigan Group, lodged plans to add a 10-storey extension that includes 103 additional bedrooms.