Plans by investors — including AirAsia boss and Queens Park Rangers owner Tony Fernandes — to demolish and redevelop the Ormond Hotel in Dublin are being opposed by the Save Joycean Dublin Committee and local residents.

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.

The demolition of a disused Dublin city centre hotel has been refused planning.

Gardaí are investigating two raids at post offices in Dublin and Cork, only one of which was successful and netted the robbers €14,000.