Royal Bank of Scotland Group is weighing up the sale of over €400m of Irish hotel assets.

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

The former landmark Ard Rí hotel and grounds in Waterford city, bought for a reported €15m in 2006 for a proposed €400m mixed use development, has been put on the market for €750,000.

Ulster Bank wants High Court permission to use various means to serve its Irish bankruptcy proceedings on developer Seán Dunne, who is now living in the US, a judge was told yesterday.

US bankruptcy laws give people a second chance but Nama and Ulster Bank will keep a close eye on Seán Dunne’s proceedings, says business correspondent John Walsh.

O’Callaghan Properties are looking for up to €25m for the 180-bed River Lee hotel they built in 2006 on the old Jurys Hotel site in Cork city.

A 181-bed hotel which replaced the iconic Jurys Hotel in Cork City has been put up for sale for about €24m as an investment.

AN amended planning application is to be made directly to An Bord Pleanála for an €80 million private hospital in Cork city.

CORK’s newest hotel – the River Lee Hotel – is also one of the city’s most established.

THREE banks have taken a substantial stake in the Ballsbridge hotels, which were bought by property developer Sean Dunne for a record €375 million in 2005. The three hotels are in Dublin 4.

PLANS for a €80 million 100-bed private hospital in Cork have been shot down.

A NEW €80 million private hospital is being proposed for Cork city centre.

PLANS for a new private hospital are to be lodged shortly by O’Callaghan Properties for their Jurys Hotel site in Cork city centre.

JURYS Hotel are no more as the group is embarking on a €200 million rebranding and refurbishment programme which will see it move further into the five-star market.

MORE than 5,000 permanent jobs would be created if the 37-storey tower building proposed by property developer Sean Dunne gets the go-ahead, a Bord Pleanála oral hearing was told yesterday.

LIMERICK is to lose one of the world’s most famous hotel brands.

GOD brought Moses to the top of Jordan’s Mount Nebo, and showed him a glimpse of the Promised Land, according to the Book of Deuteronomy.

A woman whose husband is on trial for her murder disappeared after her husband caught her kissing another man a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

MORE than 500 pharmacists across the country will close their businesses today to travel to Dublin for an emergency trade union meeting.

One of Dublin’s best known landmarks, the Burlington Hotel, will today close its doors for the last time.

Developer Sean Dunne tonight unveiled ambitious plans for a 37-storey diamond shaped tower in Dublin 4.

GARDAÍ last night issued another appeal for witnesses to an assault that left a former Republic of Ireland and Nottingham Forest soccer player in critical condition in a Cork hospital.

CORK’S city manager has defended the policy of taking money from developers in lieu of affordable homes.

BOWEN Construction, the Cork-based building and engineering firm, notched up an 18% rise in profits in the year to end March.

SIXTEEN months after the wrecking ball moved in, Cork’s new Jurys Hotel will reopen its doors at noon today after a €38 million redevelopment.

A two-acre site in Dublin's Ballsbridge area has been sold by the State for over €170m.

THE consortium seeking to take control of Jurys Doyle has won the support of 96% of the hotel group's shareholders, it emerged yesterday.

JURYS DOYLE is set to disappear from the stock exchange after property developer Sean Dunne said he would sell his 28% stake to the hotel group’s majority shareholder yesterday.

THE Doyle family may vote against the €260 million sale of the Jurys hotel group’s land in Dublin to builder Sean Dunne.

IN this hectic world where people are working harder to sustain their lifestyle, the question of value is a serious issue.

THE Irish Congress of Trade Unions has launched a blistering attack on the property developers surrounding the Jurys Doyle hotel chain, accusing them of sacrificing 800 jobs to satisfy their greed.

The Jurys Doyle Hotel chain has sold its landmark site of almost five acres in Dublin city for €260m, it was confirmed today.

SHARES in Jurys Doyle fell 25 cent in Dublin yesterday to €15.30 but remain 5 cent above the rejected €15.25 offer price.

The Dublin stock exchange continued a week of losses today as it saw its overall price fall 11.79 points to 6,084.30, despite gains in the construction sector and by Icon PLC.

Cork Chamber of Commerce has backed the plan by Jurys Doyle Hotel Group to build a new property on the Western Road in the city.

The ISEQ ended the day down 15.49 points to finish at 6,157.28 as traders began to wind down for the Christmas holidays.

STAFF at Cork’s landmark Jurys Hotel spoke yesterday of their shock, anger and disappointment following news the hotel is to be demolished as part of a €130 million redevelopment.

LIMERICK saw its second major hotel transaction in less than a year yesterday, when Jurys Doyle sold its hotel in the city for €9.75 million.

THE Institute of Technology Sligo is anxious to foster friendly, life-long contacts between our graduates.

WITH the tide at low ebb for residential rental properties, with rents dropping and tenants in short supply and able to pick and choose, the location of investment properties is about to take centre stage in urban areas.

FOR wining and dining in style it seems you can’t beat the Banner.

THE burgeoning Lynch Hotel Group yesterday bought the Green Isle Hotel in Dublin for €11 million from the Jurys Doyle Hotel Group, who are to build a Jurys Inn at London’s Heathrow airport.

DUBLIN is to benefit from the construction of another Jurys Inn by the Jurys Doyle Hotel Group.