A PRIME sited and profitable Dublin city hotel developed by city bar and hotel owners the Dwyer brothers is up for sale, expected to find an overseas buyer, for as much as €35m.

A €4.6m writedown in assets contributed to pre-tax losses increasing by 57% to €10m at the slimmed down O’Dwyer hotel and pub group last year.

Pre-tax losses at the slimmed down O’Dwyer hotel and pub group decreased sharply to €6.3m in 2010, new figures show.

GET ready to see leading lady Glenn Close as you’ve never seen her before — as a leading man.

Mark Keogan, brother of TV and radio star Hector Ó hEochagáin, was today awarded €85,000 compensation for unfair dismissal in September 2009 as manager of The George Pub and Nightclub in Georges Street, Dublin.

A RECEIVER has been appointed to the Lynch Group’s flagship and longest established hotel, the West County Hotel in Ennis.

A RECEIVER has been appointed to two hotels in the Ennis-based Lynch Hotel Group, by Bank of Scotland (Ireland), putting around 100 jobs at risk.

THE examiner of companies in the Capital Bars Group which operate several well-known Dublin bars, including Cafe en Seine, The George and Howl At the Moon, has until next Thursday to secure investment vital to his preparation of survival proposals for the companies. Some 175 jobs hang in the balance.

An international stenography company employed by An tSeirbhis Chuirte was criticised at the Central Criminal Court today by Mr Justice Paul Carney who said it should apologise to prisoners awaiting sentence.