Organisation: O’Donovan’s Hotel

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<p> Dena and Tom O'Donovan at O'Donovan's hotel in Clonakilty. Dena says: 'None of it is right. There is a proper way of dealing with people.' Picture: Eddie O'Hare</p>

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'We want to pay our way': O'Donovan's Hotel and their battle with Everyday Finance

A loan that the family took out with AIB sixteen years has come back to haunt them after it was sold to a vulture fund, writes Mick Clifford

Hotelier Dena O'Donovan runs Clonakilty’s iconic O’Donovan’s Hotel which has survived countless recessions, the Spanish Flu, the War of Independence, Civil War, and foot and mouth.

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‘We are all the time evolving’: Clonakilty businesses amid Covid-19 have embraced change and challenge

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A farmer, a cyclist, and a stolen coat: West Cork springs into action to catch thief

Ophelia bombarded us but Shelley’s leaves clung on

farming

Cormac MacConnell: Pet friendly break for pampered pooches

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Cork town’s unique bicycle scheme

Clonakilty children hit the high note with Christmas fundraising CD

A moving new song, which celebrates the beauty of a West Cork town at Christmas time and expresses the sense of loss felt by local people forced to emigrate, is to be launched this week.

Mon, 01 Dec, 2014

Cork hit hard as 30,000 people left without electricity

THE AFTERMATH

Fri, 14 Feb, 2014

Town challenges recession with €20 night out

IT’S a dodgy date dreaded by the superstitious. But an enterprising West Cork town is planning to make its own good luck next “Friday the 13th” — and boost local business in the process.

Wed, 04 May, 2011

Hotel says farewell to ‘resident’ Ben after 17-year stay

THE owners of one of the country’s oldest family-run hotels are in mourning after a cherished ‘resident’ checked out for the big kennel in the sky.

Thu, 07 Oct, 2010

Woman cut buttock on toilet bowl during hen night

A HEN night celebration led to a party-goer cutting her right buttock on a collapsing toilet bowl in a West Cork hotel, it was claimed yesterday.

Sat, 20 Mar, 2010

20,000 log on to avail of hotel breaks for only €1

HOTELIERS in west Cork received such a stampede for €1 hotel breaks that they’re going to run a similar promotion in south Wales as part of celebrations heralding the reopening of the Cork-Swansea ferry route.

Tue, 02 Mar, 2010