JURYS DOYLE’S hotels in Ballsbridge, Dublin, yesterday paid the price for failing to perform, as the company announced plans to cut its presence in the area from three of the city’s top hotels to a single four-star operation.

YOU can sport and play at Westways, a six-bed house up for sale on Cork’s Western Road, backing onto the Mardyke, that leafy city walk famed in song and fable.