Joyce hotel plan to go ahead

Dublin City Council has formally approved the €20m redevelopment of a Dublin hotel immortalised in James Joyce’s Ulysses.

The Council has granted planning permission to Monteco Holdings — a firm co-owned by AirAsia boss and Queens Park Rangers Football Club owner, Tony Fernandes — to demolish and redevelop the Ormond Hotel in the city centre.

The approval has come despite stiff opposition from the Save Joycean Dublin Committee and local residents.