The four-star boutique hotel in Dublin co-owned by U2 recorded profits of €400,000 last year.

Earnings at Paddy McKillen’s Irish restaurant, pub and nightclub entertainment group last year increased by 28% to €2m.

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The owners of the four-star Clarence Hotel, which include Bono and the Edge, are not proceeding with a High Court action against a refusal by Dublin City Council to extend planning permission for a €150m proposal to transform the premises.

Profits at the four-star Clarence Hotel — co-owned by U2’s Bono and The Edge — last year decreased by 35% to €73,442.

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Plans by Bono and The Edge to revive their parked €150m revamp of Dublin’s Clarence Hotel were stopped in their tracks by Dublin City Council, the High Court heard yesterday.

A battle over plans for a multimillion revamp of the U2-owned Clarence Hotel in Dublin has gone to the High Court today.

Profits at the four-star Clarence Hotel, co-owned by U2’s Bono and The Edge, rose more than ninefold last year to €113,787.

Despite lavish spending during the boom, an internal audit by the country’s health and safety watchdog has concluded the taxpayer-funded agency did not abuse credit cards by splashing out at five-star international hotels and Michelin restaurants.

THE Clarence Hotel which is co-owned by U2’s Bono and The Edge returned to profit last year after three years of losses.

ALTHOUGH a feature of Dublin life since 1852, the Clarence Hotel was taken over by Bono and The Edge of U2 in 1992.

TV PERSONALITY and broadcaster Vanessa Feltz, and her husband Ben Ofoedu, spent Easter Sunday dancing the night away to showband music in east Cork — and she reckons the Queen would do well to visit the same area when’s she’s on her Irish trip.

BONO has received approval for a €150 million remodelling of his Dublin hotel that will triple the property’s size and top it with a panoramic glass bar.

An Bord Pleanala have granted planning permission for the development at the Clarence Hotel in Dublin

BONO is not a man known to be short of words but he may have met his match in an opponent to his hotel expansion plans.

HERITAGE experts have dubbed €65 million plans by rock band U2 to revamp one of Dublin’s most exclusive hotels as “execrable”.

FUTURE Gordon Ramsays, Richard Corrigans and chefs of a quieter yet no less talented disposition gathered in Dublin over the weekend to do battle in kitchens for one of the most hotly contested title in Irish culinary circles.

U2 may be riding high at the top of the music charts but their plush hotel in Dublin city centre is still a long way from recording a profit.

THE hippest ingredient right now, according to Britain’s best cookery writer Nigel Slater, is culinary nostalgia. His book Toast — the Story of a Boy’s Hunger is in its 11th edition and has been in the bestseller list for over a year.

THERE was no yelling or screaming after the out-of-service bus ploughed into passengers and pedestrians, just an air of stunned silence punctuated by people quietly crying.

Gardaí have said a total of five people have died in the double decker bus crash in Dublin.

U2 still have not found the profits they are looking for at the Clarence Hotel in Dublin – losses have more than doubled to €1.1m.