Pre-tax profits at the five-star Druids Glen Hotel and Resort climbed 51% to €1.48m last year.

Derby substitute Jack Marriott scored twice to help fire his side into the Sky Bet Championship play-off final after a 4-2 victory at Leeds.

Angela Moon Two out of three hotel websites inadvertently leak guests’ booking details and personal data to third-party sites, including advertisers and analytics companies, according to research by cybersecurity firm Symantec.

The hacking of hundreds of German politicians’ data, including that of chancellor Angela Merkel, should be a wake-up call for Irish public representatives to better protect their most sensitive records, a cybersecurity expert has said.

Fears have risen that the financial and personal details of Irish tourists have been severely compromised after the €36.5bn hotel chain Marriott said that a key reservation system had been hacked.

Marriott says details of up to 500m guests may have been accessed in breach of its reservation database.

The 2019 Open Championship is less than 18 months away. The town of Portrush and the surrounding areas continue to buzz with anticipation at what will be the biggest sporting event in this island’s history. 

Ciara McDonnell rounds up the best New Year’s Eve destinations around the globe – so you can get planning for next year.    

The company which operates Dublin’s five-star Shelbourne Hotel made a pre-tax loss of €71,123 last year, after incurring interest charges of over €118,300.

The largest office building in Cork’s Airport Business Park has been sold to an investor, for just over €5.5 million – and, it is likely to be offered to the rapidly expanding international communications company Newsweaver, whose global HQ is already at the Airport Park.

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.

A data breach at 20 US hotels operated by HEI Hotels and Resorts for Starwood, Marriott, Hyatt and Intercontinental may have divulged payment card data from tens of thousands of food, drink and other transactions, HEI has said.

Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide yesterday agreed to a higher $13.6bn (€12bn) offer from Marriott International, a proposal that trumped a bid by China’s Anbang Insurance.

US hotel operator Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide yesterday received a higher buyout offer from a consortium led by China’s Anbang Insurance Group that could derail Marriott International’s planned takeover of Starwood.

A jury has awarded Fox Sports reporter Erin Andrews $55m (€50m) in her lawsuit against a stalker who bought a hotel room next to her and secretly recorded a nude video, finding that the hotel companies and the stalker shared in the blame.

Marriott International will buy Sheraton owner Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide in a $12.2bn (€11.4bn) deal to create the world’s largest hotel chain.

Rotterdam is presently undergoing a renaissance of sorts, specifically in the areas of arts, culture, night life and fashion.

Pádraig Harrington’s Valero Texas Open performance is now absolutely crucial with now just eight rounds remaining if he’s to qualify for the Masters next month.

In the early years after 9/11, the CIA turned some Guantanamo Bay prisoners into double agents then sent them home to help the US kill terrorists, current and former US officials said.

Earnings at the Doyle Collection hotel group climbed 66% to €35.2m last year, with revenues jumping 13.5% to €126.5m.

Twelve years ago, Benjamin Clark saved hundreds of lives in the South Tower.

Warnings of weaker profits helped pull the US stock market down yesterday, despite some positive economic news.

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Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has thrown new £12m signing Daniel Sturridge into the fray for his side’s FA Cup third-round clash with non-league Mansfield at the One Call Stadium this afternoon.

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.

Ireland’s ‘barbecue king’ has urged the nation to stop complaining about the rain and get grilling outdoors.

Brandname multinationals such as IBM and Vodafone have offices nearby, and a five-star Marriott hotel is going up on the main airport road in eastern Calcutta, not far from pricey pastel apartment blocks looking like Legoland in the hazy sun-baked distance.

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.

World No 1 hotelier InterContinental Hotels is looking to emerging markets and especially China to drive growth after a recovery in the United States and a string of new Chinese hotel openings helped push 2011 profits up 26%.

THE Shelbourne Hotel is an institution at any time of year.

DRUIDS Glen golf course, which was the setting for the infamous golf game between former taoiseach Brian Cowen and former chairman of Anglo Irish Bank Sean FitzPatrick, has returned to profitability.

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THEY soothed our senses, purified our pores and massaged the nine-to-five from our system.

PRE-tax losses at the company that manages the luxurious five-star Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin increased threefold to €7.6 million last year, new accounts show.

THE National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) has appointed receivers to 16 assets linked to debts of up to €1.5 billion held by high-profile property developer Paddy Kelly — once one of the country’s wealthiest property tycoons.

THE company that operates the five-star Shelbourne hotel in Dublin last year recorded pre-tax losses of €2.89 million, new accounts show.

I’VE been reading about concern over the fall in numbers using Dublin airport and how the number of visitors from North America has fallen this year by one-third – despite the increased value of the dollar against the euro.

The Pakistani cricket team ploughed on with their British tour today, dogged by accusations of match-fixing, after the man at the centre of the alleged plot was bailed by police.

Luxury accommodation at Praia d’El Rey where the beach is right outside your balcony.