Sense of homecoming for hotel veteran Ray Byrne

When the opportunity to purchase the Eccles Hotel in Glengarriff presented itself to Ray Byrne in 2016, it marked a return to his early career roots in a region that had long captivated his imagination.

“Buying Eccles Hotel did have a sense of something coming full circle for me, one of those life events that land on your doorstep in a way you couldn’t ignore,” he explains of the immediate impetus to make the legendary institution his own.