This is the best hotel food I’ve eaten in many a long moon, says Joe McNamee.

The four-star Kerry hotel, formerly owned by business people Bill Cullen and Jackie Lavin, is likely to post record earnings of just under €600,000 for last year.

The year 2005 was Ireland’s ‘if you build it, they will come’ period. Much was built, but the conventional wisdom that property couldn’t lose money, was hitting the skids.

The new owners of one of Killarney’s oldest hotels plan to invest €500,000 in the five-star property over the next year-and-a-half.

Cork, Kerry and Limerick hotels are among a portfolio of seven profitably trading Irish hotels being sold as a bundle, or individually, by Nama in the so-called Crystal Portfolio, valued all-in at €35m and totalling over 830 beds.

Susan O’Shea sets up base camp at Muckross Park Hotel and comes away as liberated as a former guest, The Liberator.

ONE down, another to go in Kerry — DTZ Sherry FitzGerald this week bring Bill Cullen and Jackie Lavin’s Muckross Park Hotel to market guiding €6.5m, after their summer 2014 off-market sale of Killarney’s 74-bed Aghadoe Heights for just over €6m, bought by Davy asset managers.

WHEN visitors come to Ireland there are some things I feel it’s my duty to share. Taytos, obviously, Barry’s Tea and Clonakilty black pudding.

Revenues at the five-star Muckross Park Hotel have topped €5.4 million in its first year in receivership.

The receivership of the €50m five-star Lyrath resort hotel in Co Kilkenny is beginning to pay dividends for the Bank of Scotland.

The five-star Muckross Park Hotel has been put back in receivership after businessman Bill Cullen and partner Jackie Lavin lost their legal battle for court protection while they put an investor in place.

A receiver has been reinstated to the five-star hotel owned by Bill Cullen and Jackie Lavin after the High Court refused to approve the appointment of an examiner.

Businessman, Bill Cullen has apologised to the High Court for failing to disclose he owned part of the land on which the Muckross Park Hotel is built, when applying for examinership.

Sixteen parties have expressed an interest in investing in the five-star Muckross Park Hotel in Killarney, Co Kerry, run by businessman Bill Cullen and his partner Jackie Lavin, the High Court heard yesterday.

Celebrity entrepreneurs Jackie Lavin and Bill Cullen will attempt to retain control of their jointly-owned five star property, the Muckross Park Hotel, in the High Court today.

There has been a 20% fall in the numbers of business failures in the first three months of 2013 compared to the same period last year.

The five-star Muckross Park Hotel in Killarney, owned by businessman Bill Cullen and his partner Jackie Lavin, was yesterday granted protection by the High Court.

The financial woes of Bill Cullen, once the country’s best known car dealer, continue.

A receiver has been appointed to Muckross Park Hotel in Killarney, which is owned and run by Bill Cullen and his partner Jackie Lavin.

Let’s face it ladies, growing a baby is hard work.

Pre-tax losses at the Bill Cullen and Jackie Lavin-owned five-star Muckross Park Hotel in Co Kerry last year declined sharply by 90% to €358,566.

ARCHITECTURALLY, the Muckross Park Hotel is ever so strange.

THE five-star Muckross Park Hotel and spa in Killarney, owned by Apprentice stars Bill Cullen and Jackie Lavin, has undergone a change in management, with Choice Hotels, developers of the Clarion brand appointed as business consultants.

APPRENTICE star Bill Cullen believes his loss-making five-star hotel in Co Kerry will soon be back in the black.

TV ENTREPRENEUR Bill Cullen and partner Jackie Lavin are having their own rough apprenticeship in the Irish property game.

She lied, stole, swindled, claimed her father was dead and even faked her own death. But the saga of imprisoned Diane Connelly isn’t over yet, writes Caroline O’Doherty.

Plans for a world class recreational trail network in Ireland are to be unveiled today.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern yesterday said his party was closely monitoring the controversy surrounding a Dublin Fianna Fáil councillor who has rejected allegations he was caught snorting cocaine.