A 20% jump in average revenue per room at the Doubletree by Hilton hotel in Dublin 4 last year contributed to pre-tax profits increasing almost eightfold to €2.15m.

The face of the Irish hotel sector has changed significantly over the past number years as international owners and well-known brands have become more prevalent.

Thursday of last week, a gathering of building surveyors, QSs and estate agents in their professional body the SCSI heard that their attendance - of 1,250 diners- for a black-tie function was “a very good barometer of the growing confidence in the economy and our industry.”

Blackstone Group plans to buy about €100m of Dublin office space as Ireland recovers from Western Europe’s worst property crash, people with knowledge of the matter said.

The GAA-GPA All Star awards ceremony on Friday, November 8 will, for the first time, be held at Croke Park.

Ireland’s showjumping manager is hoping there will be no more shocks in store this week after escaping injury when a fire broke out in his Dublin hotel room yesterday.

Investigations are underway into the cause of a fire at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin.

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WITH seven new businesses/office re-locations at Cork’s Airport Business Park, the recently-purchased Cork International Airport Hotel has upward momentum behind its upgrade plans.

The Thai-Chinese billionaire who is buying the 500-acre Fota Resort for more than €20m is likely to make further Irish investments — and spend heavily on Fota, guaranteeing its future and jobs.

Normally, the distance from the Burlington Hotel to Glenswilly is 260 kilometres or so — but this was no normal week in Donegal.

Dublin's largest hotel, the four-star Burlington, has been put up for sale at a guide price of between €65-75m.

The landmark Burlington Hotel is for sale with a price tag of just a quarter of the €288m it sold for five years ago.

Cork’s International Airport Hotel, developed five years ago at a cost of up to €40m, is for sale via a receiver for €4.75m.

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Three of the country’s best known hotels have been placed in receivership due to the debts racked up by developer Bernard McNamara.

A receiver has been appointed to the Burlington Hotel in Dublin, the Cork International Hotel and the Parknasilla Hotel in Co. Kerry.

CHAPTER ONE has turned the page on another success story, with the fine dining Dublin venue voted best restaurant in Ireland by the Restaurant Association of Ireland for the third year in a row.

ENDA Kenny swept into the Burlington Hotel’s glittering ballroom as Taoiseach-in-waiting — and no one had ever been waiting for such validation for so long.

IT’S early in the season, but tomorrow afternoon sees Croke Park house a Kerry-Tyrone All-Ireland football final battle. The best intermediate outfits from both counties go head to head and, in Kerry club Spa, there is a feverish sense of anticipation ahead of the game against Cookstown’s Fr Rocks.

TWO major office and residential developments have been given the go-ahead by an Bord Pleanála in one of the country’s most exclusive neighbourhoods despite multiple objections from wealthy residents and environmentalists.

THE sunshine streamed in the Burlington Hotel yesterday morning but for Diarmuid Murphy the fine weather did little to brighten his mood.

More than 20,000 people have lost their jobs since Employment Minister Michael Martin came to office in 2004, it was claimed today.

TOURISM bosses yesterday expressed concern about a decline in the number of hotel rooms in Dublin city centre and called on the Government to consider making available the use of state buildings to counteract the problem.

HIGH noon came yesterday when Dublin’s landmark Burlington Hotel closed its doors.

SIPTU has expressed concern that the Burlington Hotel in south Dublin will be reopened in the near future with a new workforce on inferior pay and conditions.

One of Dublin’s best known landmarks, the Burlington Hotel, will today close its doors for the last time.

Jurys Doyle is set to sell off the five-star Berkeley Court Hotel in Ballsbridge, Dublin, the company confirmed today.

Up to 600 jobs are thought to be under threat as a result of plans by the Jurys Doyle Hotel group to sell off two of its three hotels in Ballsbridge.

AN AMERICAN private equity group is said to be circling the Jurys Doyle hotel chain, which last week rejected a takeover approach from a group of property developers.

JURYS Doyle Group says trading at its Dublin hotels has been disappointing so far this year. It is reviewing the future of its four properties in the Ballsbridge area.

JURYS Doyle are seeking around 100 voluntary redundancies from its staff at the luxury Burlington Hotel in Dublin.

CORK'S All-Ireland winners want Donal O'Grady to continue as manager after guiding them to a 29th All-Ireland hurling title win.

The trial of four youths charged with the manslaughter of student Brian Murphy outside the Burlington Hotel continued today in legal argument in the absence of the jury.

One of the accused in the Brian Murphy manslaughter trial told gardaí he gave him "two good belts" on the night he was kicked to death outside the Burlington Hotel.

The principal of Blackrock College has told the Brian Murphy manslaughter trial that he met one of the accused and another former student the morning after the incident and they wrote down their versions of what happened.

One of the accused in the Brian Murphy manslaughter trial admitted kicking someone in the head during a fight and hearing his head "snap or crack", a taxi driver has told the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A girl who saw student Brian Murphy lying unconscious after he was violently assaulted outside the Burlington Hotel has told a jury that just afterwards she saw two youths holding one of the four accused who are charged with killing him.

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THE GAA took another step into a brave new world of commercialism yesterday as sportswear giants Puma revealed exclusive tie-ups with six of the country's top hurling and football stars this season.

The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, stands to win between £5,000 and £30,000 in damages after a Cork businessman who claimed to have given him a bribe in 1989 withdrew the claim.