A ‘beautiful, energetic, vibrant woman was crushed by what she described as her ‘tortured shell of a body’ so her friend decided to help her in seeking an assisted suicide, writes Eoghan O’Sullivan

Kilkenny’s five-star Lyrath Hotel has just been sold for well over €20m to an Irish consortium of buyers who plan to invest further in the 170-acre resort investment, which was developed at a boom-time cost of €50m.

GOOD profit levels are now recorded at Kilkenny’s Lyrath Estate hotel and spa on 170 pastoral acres, up for sale a decade after it opened at a development cost of €50m.

ONE of the south-east’s busiest hotels has been forced to turn away conferences, weddings and family bookings because of construction work under way just yards from the building.