The luxury four-star Mount Wolseley Hotel, Spa and Golf Resort is set to increase profitability “substantially” this year.

The Denis O’Brien-controlled Topaz Energy is to invest €20m this year on overhauling and upgrading its retail network, before launching a fresh investment programme in 2016 when it formally takes ownership of Esso’s forecourt network.

Topaz Energy today announced a 9% increase in operating profits, to €13.9m for the year ended March 31, 2014.

Operating losses at the five-star hotel and golf resort, Mount Juliet more than halved in 2013 to €1.65m as revenues increased.

Topaz has announced it will re-brand all the Esso stations in Ireland after its parent company acquired the business.

Carrickmore qualified for a second successive Tyrone SFC final with a 2-7 to 0-11 win over Ardboe at Pomeroy last night.

Brehon Capital Partners and Midwest Holding have agreed a deal to buy the four-star Killashee House Hotel in Kildare for €13m. 

The new owners of the luxury Mount Juliet resort, in Co Kilkenny, are set to spend an estimated €4m on expanding its facilities over the next 18 months.

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THE cost of visiting the dentist is set to plunge as the country’s largest dental group slashed prices by 30%.

SMILES, Ireland’s first dental spa which opens this week in the former Bank of Ireland building in Dublin’s O’Connell Street, is to invest €3 million in opening a further three outlets in Ireland during 2006.