Tie hole drama was the order of the day when the finals of three Munster inter-club competitions were decided over the weekend.

The finance manager of the five-star Dromoland Castle hotel has launched a High Court action aimed at preventing her dismissal.

The managing director of the five-star Dromoland Castle hotel said yesterday that the business is going through “a nice purple patch” as pre-tax profits last year increased more than fivefold to €324,889.

AIB has obtained a conditional court order giving the bank a charge over €2.7m worth of shares held by or on behalf of businessman Tony O’Reilly in the Dromoland Castle holding company.

Here’s a run down of today’s business headlines.

The five-star Dromoland Castle has stopped plans by Applegreen to extend its national network of motorway service areas into Clare.

The general manager of the five-star Dromoland Castle hotel, Mark Nolan, said yesterday that he expects the revenues at the hotel and adjoining Inn at Dromoland to top €17m this year.

Increased capital spend at the firm that operates the five-star Dromoland Castle hotel last year contributed to pre-tax profits at the business decreasing by 73% to €63,816.

When you are one of the championship favourites and things are going against you, there is always a good time to produce a shot out of the ordinary.

Members of the Australian International Rules squad reportedly caused a number of early morning disturbances in their team hotel in Clare yesterday.

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The collapse of an online tour operator has left a trail of unpaid debts, with some of Ireland’s best-known five-star hotels incurring losses.

Dromoland Castle Holdings Limited, the owner/operator of the luxury resort in Newmarket-on-Fergus, Co Clare, recorded sales revenues of €13.7m for full-year 2012.

Dromoland Castle returned to record a pre-tax profit last year.

The holiday industry yesterday sounded an upbeat note on the prospects for the coming high-tourist season.

OPERATING profits at one of the country’s best known five-star hotels, Dromoland Castle in Co Clare, dropped last year by 14% to €1.2 million.

FIVE-star hotel prices are 60% cheaper than they were at the height of the boom.

ONE of Limerick’s longest established shops which faced closure with the introduction of a new law on the sale of tobacco tomorrow is set to puff on thanks to a special exemption.

THE luxurious Castlemartyr resort in East Cork will reopen within weeks under the world-renowned Dromoland hotels brand.

THE five-star Castlemartyr Hotel, which was formally operated by Capella, is to re-open under the management of Dromoland, creating 100 jobs.

Around 100 new jobs are on the way to Co Cork, following this afternoon’s news that the owners of Dromoland Castle are taking over the former six-star Castlemartyr Hotel.

THREE-STAR hotels in Ireland cost €5 less per night than their one-star and two-star counterparts.

HOTELS around the country have been slashing normal room rates in a bid to make up for an overall stagnant market in 2003.

THE first day of strike action by Aer Lingus cabin crews passed off without major disruption yesterday as hired in crews and aircraft covered nine out of every 10 scheduled flights.

GIVEN the huge backlog of murder and rape cases in Limerick, it would make sense for trials to be heard locally.

SOME of world’s best hotels are located here, according to a newly published league table of Britain’s and Ireland’s top establishments.