Dublin might be facing a shortage of hotels to cater for its millions of overseas visitors… but the city authorities have drawn the line on allowing windowless bedrooms to solve the problem.

A €4.6m writedown in assets contributed to pre-tax losses increasing by 57% to €10m at the slimmed down O’Dwyer hotel and pub group last year.

Pre-tax losses at the slimmed down O’Dwyer hotel and pub group decreased sharply to €6.3m in 2010, new figures show.