It is decision time for Dalata as to whether or not the country’s largest hotel group wants to play a part in any deal for two landmark Ballsbridge hotels, its chief executive has said.

The country’s largest hotel group Dalata completed a transformational year with the announcement that it has added the Holiday Inn in Belfast to its portfolio of hotels for €25.7m.

A DEVOTED father who has watched his paralysed daughter languish in hospital for almost 19 months has been refused a loan by several banks that would help get her home.

A TRAGIC Irish mother clinging to life in an English hospital will be airlifted home within days.