AFTER a market revival in 2012 and 2013, 60 Irish hotels sold in 2014 for a total of €440m, double that of the prior year.

IF it’s a rejuvenating country getaway you’re after then do yourself a favour and take a look at Farnham Estate Golf and Spa Resort.

Operating profits at the group that operates the Radisson hotels at Dublin and Shannon airports last year increased by 54% to €1.4m.

A TOP and profitable Limerick city hotel comes for sale this week guiding €17 million, less than half of its development cost, estimated to have been c €40 million.

The news that Limerick city is hosting a Pride Parade on Saturday in addition to the All-Ireland semi-final replay has led to fears of traffic chaos on the day.

If you’re wondering about that repetitive piercing squeal audible from some distant south Dublin suburb — relax — it’s simply the nails of rain-soaked Arne Jacobsen fans clawing at the front windows of ‘Lost Weekend’ in Dun Laoghaire.

The group that operates the Radisson hotels at the country’s three State airports booked an exceptional €42 million gain last year after restructuring its bank debt.

My previous experience of Galway went a little like this: pub, pub, pub, pub, pub, pub, Supermac’s, bed.

CONFRONTED by a 20-foot wave, I’d do the honourable thing.

Cork’s International Airport Hotel, developed five years ago at a cost of up to €40m, is for sale via a receiver for €4.75m.

The traditional first big event on the domestic annual calendar, the Radisson sponsored West of Ireland Championship, gets underway today with the first of two stroke-play qualifying rounds leading up to the final on Tuesday next.

IF YOU still need proof that Christmas is now a fully-fledged season — as opposed to a single day, or even several days, of festive fun — you’ll find it in Eyre Square.

THE Radisson Blu is built on the site of the former Ballincar House Hotel — a country estate house 6km from Sligo town on the road to the chic seaside settlement of Rosses Point.

IF LIMERICK is a tale of two cities, its Radisson Blu is a tale of two hotels.

CAVAN may not be top of your list when someone suggests a weekend away, but it really should be.

IRELAND is viewed in the developed world as a “reactionary state” because of the absence of collective bargaining rights, it has been claimed.

DESPITE consumer spending concerns, top-end Irish hotels are still busy with bookings and are defying the recession with innovative offers and ways to cut costs.

THERE is still time to book a St Patrick’s Day break, with rooms available at both the Radisson Blue Hotel in Galway and the Waterford Castle Hotel.

Irish Close champion Shane Lowry beat the Castle's Ryan Boal at the 20th to clinch his place in Wednesday's West of Ireland Championship semi-finals at Rosses Point.

England’s Jonathan Hurst has set his sights on the West of Ireland Amateur Open title after a level-par 71 gave him the first round lead at wind-blown Rosses Point today.

MORE than two-thirds of couples are spending more than €20,000 on their weddings, with big-day stress also on the increase.

Defending champion Rory McIlroy struggled to a four-over par 75 as Co Louth's Simon Ward led the qualifiers in the Radisson-SAS West of Ireland Amateur Open.

The mother of a bride, whose wedding was devastated in the Amman suicide bombings, died of her wounds in a coma today.

Suicide bombers carried out nearly simultaneous attacks on three US-based hotels in the Jordanian capital last night, killing at least 57 people and wounding at least 115 in an al-Qaida-style assault on the Arab kingdom with close ties to the United States and a border with Iraq.

At least 53 people were now believed killed and more than 300 injured after explosions rocked three hotels in the Jordanian capital Amman today.

THE bungalow Cuas is on a handy half acre site by the Little Island rail station for ease of access to Cork city, has a playground close-by - and a new Radisson hotel and booming business park as well almost on it doorstep.

CORK’S new Radisson SAS Hotel and Spa has appointed Ruairi O’Connor as its general manager.

Legendary Irish rugby hero, Mick Galwey, has been confirmed as the guest speaker for Buccaneers ‘Annual Rugby Awards Dinner’ tonight at Athlone’s Radisson SAS Hotel.

A Northern Irish company specialising in the manufacture and installation of interiors to the retail and leisure sectors is celebrating the award of a new contract in Tralee, Co Kerry.

Irish-owned Clarion Hotels has announced that it has been awarded the management contract for the Carton House, Maynooth, Co Kildare.

A NEW international four-star hotel in Little Island is expected to create 145 new jobs and pump millions of euro into the Cork economy.

Belfast’s newest luxury hotel will be open for business at the end of August, it was announced today.

The Radisson Hotel Group is expanding its operation in Ireland with the creation of 1,000 new jobs over the next four years.

WILL an out-of town developer move far enough south to take on the redevelopment of the Dunkathel estate - and to outbid the handful of locals keen to get their hands on a site for a c300 house scheme plus luxury hotel?