Trinity City Hotel, one of the Dublin hotels owned by US billionaire John Malone, the Virgin Media and TV3 owner, boosted pre-tax profits 54% to €2.83m last year, writes Gordon Deegan. 

The last time this house appeared in these pages, it didn’t actually exist... except on paper, and in the plans with which it was offered for sale.

Profits at the Goldman Sachs-backed hotel firm, Tifco increased by 22% to €4m last year.

US billionaire John Malone has secured planning permission for a major extension to his Hilton hotel at Charlemont Place at Grand Canal in Dublin after An Bord Pleanála gave the go-ahead for a seven-storey, 97-bedroom extension.

Ireland’s largest hotels group has announced a €2m investment in one of Cork’s most successful hotels as part of a major rebranding, and has formally completed the takeover of the former Burlington Hotel, Dublin.

John Malone has applied for a seven-storey, 97-bedroom extension to the Hilton Hotel on Grand Canal.

Some of the most influential travel industry leaders in America have urged US President Barack Obama to approve a licence for low-cost flights to the US from Ireland.

The Dalata Hotel Group has emerged as the likely new operator of the former Burlington Hotel in Dublin, four months after baulking at such a move.

A question has been raised over plans by US billionaire John Malone to add a new seven-storey 97-bedroom extension to the Hilton hotel in Dublin.

The DoubleTree by Hilton, the refurbished hotel in Dublin 4, last year enjoyed pre-tax profits of €2.16m after revenues jumped by 27% to €29.4m.

The Dalata Hotel Group is to consider paying a maiden dividend to shareholders based on its 2017 earnings, management said yesterday.

Jurys Inn is to add eight hotels to its portfolio of properties and invest over €50m refurbishing them, its parent company has confirmed.

The second instalment of the 2015 Irish Film and Television Awards is fast approaching, and a list of final nominees including Chris O’Dowd, Deirdre O’Kane and Brendan O’Carroll, has just been announced.

A 20% jump in average revenue per room at the Doubletree by Hilton hotel in Dublin 4 last year contributed to pre-tax profits increasing almost eightfold to €2.15m.

AFTER a market revival in 2012 and 2013, 60 Irish hotels sold in 2014 for a total of €440m, double that of the prior year.

The face of the Irish hotel sector has changed significantly over the past number years as international owners and well-known brands have become more prevalent.

The transition to a frugal economy is happening. Traditional companies must get on board or risk becoming obsolete, writes Navi Radjou.

With the property sector starting to boom again and more jobs on-stream, wages are rising and bankers are popping champagne. Kyran FitzGerald is experiencing a bout of deja vu.

Pre-tax profits at the firm that owns the exclusive five-star Conrad Hotel in Dublin more than quadrupled last year to €915,575.

A Florida woman has become the fourth in recent weeks to accuse veteran actor Bill Cosby of giving her pills that made her feel groggy, then forcing himself on her.

From Michael Jackson to the Beatles, Martin Nolan has handled the world’s biggest celebrity auctions. Not bad for a man from Athlone who began his American dream working as a hotel bell man when he won a lottery visa to the states.

Graeme McDowell will hope history repeats itself as he defends his RBC Heritage title at Harbour Town Golf Links at Hilton Head this week.

Three consecutive days of fine weather and the whole country goes mad. Mad, I tells you.

The Irish exchange is back in the big time, with the US also booming again, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

Football, Europe’s largest indoor shopping centre, roof walks and sandy beaches — Newcastle has it all.

We view a selection of trading up homes from around the country

Paris Hilton insists she's not an "airhead", saying 'The Simple Life' ditziness was all an act for the cameras.

The general manager of a four-star Limerick hotel revealed yesterday it has employed additional staff in response to increased revenues.

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AS developer Bernard McNamara’s misguided Burlington hotel purchase is put back for sale at a quarter the price he paid for it only five years ago, one of his other hotels is close to a sale via a receiver.

Sean Quinn says he is afraid to go to prison but he will if he has to.

The general manager of a Limerick four-star hotel yesterday described the impact of Munster rugby as being very important to the success of the hotel.

Azerbaijan foiled a bid to stage “terrorist” attacks while it was hosting the Eurovision Song Contest last weekend and arrested dozens of suspected plotters, the security ministry said.

Security services in Azerbaijan say they arrested 40 suspects and seized weapons as they thwarted a series of planned terror attacks against the Eurovision Song Contest.

TAKING the elevator up to the dome crowning Victoria Square Shopping Centre, peering out over Belfast’s twinkling skyline, I try to take in the changes that have washed over this city.

Whitney Houston’s daughter has been taken to a Los Angeles hospital for unspecified medical reasons, paramedics said today.

A RADICAL Muslim sect responsible for attacks that left more than 100 people dead in north-east Nigeria at the weekend could bomb three luxury hotels frequented by foreigners in oil-rich nation’s capital, the US Embassy warned yesterday.