A man who claimed gender discrimination and harassment on the basis that a female hotel employee was frequently present in the hotel’s male changing room when men were naked has been awarded €2,000.

A receptionist at a popular Co Clare hotel whose working hours dried up after she told her supervisor she was pregnant has been awarded €18,000.

The poetry imprint’s founder has just opened a bookshop and literary centre in Ennistymon, Co Clare, says Colette Sheridan

ONE OF the upsides to the downturn is the fact that Irish hotels and holiday homes have got a lot more competitive for families.

OPERATING profits at one of the Midwest’s best-known hotels, the Falls Hotel last year dropped by 22% to €219,446.