Businessman Sean Dunne, who filed for bankruptcy in the US on Good Friday, says he regrets any involvement he had in making life difficult for any Irish resident.

It was one of the signature deals of the boom.

Ulster Bank approached Seán Dunne about financing the purchase of the Jurys /Ballsbridge site in Dublin in Jul 2005, the Irish Examiner has learned.

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.

BEST view of Limerick City? From The Strand hotel’s elevator. Launching from a sleekly-styled lobby, its glass walls zoom upwards to a panorama over Sarsfield Bridge, the mighty River Shannon and Limerick Castle.

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

JURYS Inns Group has raised £60 million (€70m) to support the continued growth and expansion of its business and to strengthen its balance sheet.

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

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

AVERAGE hotel prices have fallen by more than 40% as hoteliers pursue aggressive discounting in tough times, a trade magazine survey has found.

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.

QUINLAN PRIVATE, the Dublin-based international private investment firm, has sold a 50% stake in its Jurys Inns business to the Middle-Eastern Oman Investment Fund (OIF) for about €200 million.

TOURISM bosses yesterday expressed concern about a decline in the number of hotel rooms in Dublin city centre and called on the Government to consider making available the use of state buildings to counteract the problem.

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

Jurys Doyle Hotel Group has become the first hotel group to offer free high-speed internet access (HSIA) and free WIFI connectivity to guests across all its international properties.

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.

Ireland's largest union, SIPTU, today claimed that the Jurys Doyle Hotel Group was “dragging its heels” over agreeing a redundancy deal with 650 of its staff.

ABOUT 200 workmen had a “miraculous” escape yesterday after 15 floors of scaffolding collapsed “like a pack of cards” at a Jurys hotel building site.

The Dublin stock exchange finished the week in positive fashion as it reached the 7,000 threshold.

CRH and Jurys Doyle were the big winners at yesterday’s annual Published Accounts Awards, which aim to recognise excellence in financial reporting and the publication of user-friendly annual reports.

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.

Shares in Juys Doyle were up 10 cent to €18.90 this afternoon following the news that property developer Sean Dunne had sold his 28% shareholding for a profit of €20m.

Property developer Sean Dunne has sold his 28% shareholding in the Jurys Doyle Hotel Group for a profit of €20m.

HOTELIER Paddy Kelly formally ruled himself out of a late counterbid for the Jurys Doyle Hotel group yesterday.

Shares prices in telecoms group eircom rose sharply today as the company revealed it had received a preliminary approach, which could lead to a takeover.

THE €1.25 billion takeover cash offer for Jurys Doyle Hotel Group was sent to shareholders yesterday which values the shares at €18.90 each.

PROPERTY developer Sean Dunne sealed the €260 million deal yesterday for the 4.8-acre Ballsbridge site in Dublin owned by Jurys Doyle Hotels.

The Doyle family has purchased more than half the total stock in Jury’s Doyle Hotel Group.

THE Doyle family won control of the Jurys hotel group last night after agreeing to buy the 8.3% stake in the company owned by reclusive builder Liam Carroll.

BUILDER Sean Dunne has hired a top corporate finance executive as he weighs up a takeover bid of the Jurys Doyle Hotel Group.

JDH, the consortium led by the daughters of the late PV Doyle, has secured over 50% of the equity of Jurys Doyle Hotel chain to gain control of the business.

THE consortium bidding to buy Jurys Doyle have boosted their stake in the hotel chain to close to 48% making it virtually impossible for anyone else to mount a counter bid to the €1.25 billion offer on the table.

Property developer Sean Dunne is reportedly planning to challenge the Doyle family for control of the Jurys hotel group.

Despite news of a takeover bid at Jurys Doyle group, raising their share price by 40c to €19.10, the the ISEQ finished in the red by the end of today's trading.

Despite news of a takeover bid at Jurys Doyle group, raising their share price by 20c to €18.90, the Dublin stock exchange was still in the red after morning's trading.

THE fate of Jurys Doyle’s 33 hotels hit a further snag yesterday as bankers to developer Sean Dunne delayed the payment of the €260 million to purchase the prestigious Ballsbridge 4.8-acre site.

Jurys Doyle hotel group has received notice from Sean Dunne’s lawyers saying that finalisation of the sale of Jurys €260m Ballsbridge site to Mr Dunne’s Padholme company will not go ahead today.

THE battle for control of Jurys Doyle took a fresh twist yesterday when British property billionaires the Reuben brothers were booted out of the race.

It was a tepid day for the ISEQ with the exchange rate finishing at 6686.35, up 14.70 or 0.22%.

The board of Jurys Doyle hotel group has received a possible offer proposal from board members Eileen Monahan, Bernadette Gallagher, Walter Beatty, Elizabeth Nelson, who have presented one with Ann Roche. Between them, the consortium or their families already own 42.3% of Jurys Doyle.

PROPERTY developer Sean Dunne has further increased his stake in hotel operator Jurys Doyle to 27.8%.