TEE-ED up for a sale is Unit No 1 at Cork City’s increasingly prominent commercial hub, Penrose Wharf — the point at which the N27 city route from Cork’s airport ends at the N8.

Outbound deals accounted for half of all Irish-related merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions last year; the highest level on record, new data shows.

A violent Limerick criminal has been jailed for six years for attacking and falsely imprisoning a hotel night manager.

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

The Jurys Inn hotel group has been acquired — pending regulatory approval — by US investment firm Lone Star Funds for £680m (€910m).

US investors have agreed a €910m deal for the Jurys Inn hotel group.

Irish hotels are back in business - they’ve sold like hot-cakes during 2014, with over 50 finding new owners, with €450m changing hands in the process.

A modern build, and done like a small hotel, the Brogan Inn in Bandon is for sale, ready to run, and full of potential.

A contemporary Limerick city 124-bed hotel comes for sale as the city enjoys its period as Irish City of Culture — and as trending.ie figures show Limerick hotel occupancy up 7%.

According to the latest Savills Ireland report the upturn in Irish hotel sales that started in 2012 is continuing this year due to improvement in occupancy and average room rate (ARR).

The Jurys Inn Hotel Group has completed a significant financial restructuring, resulting in an expanded shareholder base and an estimated more than halving of its outstanding debt levels.

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GIVEN the eventsof the last two years, to declare oneself a banker in polite conversation is akin to social suicide.

THE mother of a troubled teenager who was found dead in a derelict house a week after he went missing from care has pleaded with the Minister for Children to review the way vulnerable children are cared for by the state.

An inquest has heard how a teenager in State care was found dead in a Cork squat clutching rosary beads.

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

Hotels chain Jurys Inn today said it had secured €69m in funding to support further growth in the UK.

THE Jurys Inns budget hotel chain has announced a further €97.4 million expansion plan for the British market, which will see it open four new properties on top of the seven already due to open during the course of this year.

JURYS Inn says its hotel in Liverpool is due to open in April and will be the 17th Inn in Britain, bringing the total number of Jurys Inns to 23.

QUINLAN Private has launched a €450 million joint venture with a Hungarian property company to develop 178 hectares (440 acres) of land in the eastern European country.

HSE chief Prof Brendan Drumm thinks “putting patients up in hotels instead of hospitals is the way forward for the health service” (Irish Examiner, September 21).

A major maternity hospital is being forced to rent hotel rooms for pregnant women because of a lack of beds.

QUINLAN Private, the investment vehicle run by Derek Quinlan, is reportedly the front-runner to buy the hotels brand owned by Marylebone Warwick Balfour.

The Jurys Inns hotel chain is to be sold for €1.165bn.

QUINLAN Private, the investment group led by former Revenue tax inspector, Derek Quinlan, was the slight favourite to buy the chain of Jurys Inns, as the auction approached a close yesterday.

Several workers were feared trapped today after 15 floors of scaffolding collapsed “like a pack of cards” at a hotel building site in the UK.

A “number of people” were feared trapped today after a building-site collapse, British police said.

THE Chamber of Commerce announced the winners of Green Fáilte Awards 2006 to the hospitality sector yesterday.

Takeover target Jurys Doyle has reported pre-tax profits of €23.7m for the six months to the end of June, a 7.8% rise from the figure of almost €22m the same time last year.

Jurys Doyle is set to sell off the five-star Berkeley Court Hotel in Ballsbridge, Dublin, the company confirmed today.

JURYS Doyle Group says trading at its Dublin hotels has been disappointing so far this year. It is reviewing the future of its four properties in the Ballsbridge area.

Jurys today opened an Inn at Heathrow airport, at a cost to the group of £24m (€34.3m).

A STRONG performance in Britain and America offset a "subdued" environment for four-star hotels in Ireland in the first half of the year, hotel operator Jurys Doyle said yesterday.

As concerns over oil shortages eased, the ISEQ index of shares surged ahead by 35.49 points today to close at 5598.47.

The ISEQ index of Irish shares climbed by 8.96 points in morning trading today, up to 5571.94.

Profits at Jurys Doyle hotel group are up 1.5% on the same period last year, the company announced today, adding the results were "satisfactory".

The Minister for Justice today applied to the Central Criminal Court in Dublin for a transcript of the trial of a Portuguese man who was jailed for life for the murder of a young female trainee manager in Limerick’s Jurys Inn in 2002.

TRADING has failed to pick up at Jurys Doyle's four and five-star hotels in Ireland so far this year, causing overall performance to suffer, the group warned yesterday.

Jurys chairman Richard Hooper has told the hotel group's AGM today that the company was seeing a recovery in a number of its market segments.

Hotel group Jurys Doyle has opened its new Jurys Inn in Chelsea. London.

HOTEL group Jurys Doyle delivered results slightly below market expectations yesterday as pre-tax profits fell 10.65% to €45.8 million. The market responded by shedding 12% off its share price.

The ISEQ index closed at 5070.45 on Thursday down 0.74 points.