The next step in Mount Juliet’s evolution has arrived, writes Kevin Markham.

LEADING Irish investment and hotel asset owners Tetrarch Capital plans two Cork city centre hotels in side-by-side 19th century stone warehouse building being sold by Cork City Council, who had acquired them from Nama.

“Time and tide wait for no man…” wrote Robert Frost, the American poet, “… but time always stands still for a woman of 30.”

The owner of the country’s largest hotel, the Citywest Hotel in Dublin, has expressed confidence in it delivering double-digit percentage growth in profits and revenue this year.

Well-known Dublin hotel, Wynn’s has put the brakes on a €16m plan by property investment fund Tetrarch Capital to build a new boutique hotel off O’Connell Street.

One of Rosanna Davison’s three wedding bashes in summer 2014 contributed to the luxury five-star Powerscourt hotel and spa at Enniskerry, Co Wicklow, recording earnings of €700,000 last year.

Like the 46A bus to Dun Laoghaire, which would take an age to come and then arrive with another stuck to its exhaust pipe, there are signs that things are about to start moving apace in Irish golf.