The new owner of the famous Hayes Hotel in Thurles has said he wants to turn the landmark property into a "cultural hub" which will recognise its role in GAA history but also become a thriving business.

The new owner of Hayes Hotel in Tipperary says he has big plans for the property, but it will take time.

After almost a year and a half in play, it took just minutes for the sale of Hayes Hotel to clear the bar when the historic hostelry came to auction.

The hotel in Co Tipperary where the GAA was founded has sold at auction today for €650,000.

The iconic Tipperary hotel where the GAA was founded, and where tens of thousands of sport fans have congregated every year since, is to be sold at auction with a guide price of just €500,000.

Donal Kealy’s daughter Catherine was murdered more than 20 years ago. He has fought for her, for her memory, and for justice ever since. Turning 80 next year, he wants ‘life’ to mean life for murder, and rails at how victims, in his experience, are treated by the State. His is a tragic human story echoed in many homes across the country, writes Cormac O’Keeffe.

TWO Thurles hotels are up for sale this month — one is famed in GAA lore and heritage, the other, larger, a trading entity, and just on the edge of the Tipperary town.

The birthplace of a sports movement with more than 1m members in 2,300 clubs across five continents and with an annual turnover of €50m is set to sell this year — for about €750,000.

Former GAA President Seán Kelly has backed Lar Corbett’s bid to buy Hayes Hotel in Thurles after the Tipperary hurler confirmed he wants to purchase the Association’s birthplace.

All-Ireland winning Tipperary hurler Lar Corbett and international boxing star Matthew Macklin have set their sights on purchasing Hayes Hotel in Thurles — the birthplace of the GAA.

“Down the Mardyke through each elm tree” is one of the great Irish lyrics just as Slievenamon’s “To see our flag unfurled”.

Workers get a lesson in how money talks

Evidence is expected to conclude today in the trial of two hotel workers accused of the manslaughter of a guest who died of alcohol poisoning at Hayes's Hotel in Tipperary, in 2008.

TWO hotel workers charged with the manslaughter of a guest who died after a night of heavy drinking had received no specific training on potentially dangerous doses or amounts of alcohol, Nenagh Circuit Court heard yesterday.

The landmark trial of two bar staff accused of the manslaughter of a guest at Hayes Hotel in Co Tipperary has heard that both accused had no training on the potential dangers of fatal doses of alcohol.

AN Englishman celebrating his birthday in a Thurles hotel downed between eight and 10 spirits in a half-pint glass faster than a work colleague drank a half-pint of lager, a court has heard.

A Tipperary court has heard that a hotel guest downed up to 10 shots of spirits in one glass for a party trick before he died from acute alcohol poisoning.

Two barmen have denied the manslaughter of a British man who died from acute alcohol intoxication almost three years ago.

Two barmen are due to go on trial tomorrow for the manslaughter of a British man who died from acute alcohol intoxication.

THE trial of two barmen charged with the manslaughter of a man who died from alcohol intoxication has been adjourned.

TIPPERARY chairman Barry O’Brien has backed calls for the GAA to purchase and develop Hayes Hotel in Thurles, the birthplace of the Association.

IT was celebration time in the GAA on Sunday on the exact date of that famous meeting in Hayes Hotel in Thurles 125 years ago.

COLAISTE Mhuire, Crosshaven, took the honours in a gripping contest in the latest round of the Thomas Crosbie Holdings quiz at the Imperial Hotel, Cork, last night.