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.

ALMOST 900 jobs were under threat in Dublin last night after the High Court appointed a provisional liquidator and interim examiner to a leading hotel and bar group and also appointed an examiner to a laundry company.