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€50m spend will transform Cork's Metropole Hotel
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A €50 million spend on 400 hotel bedrooms is heralded for one of Cork city’s oldest hotels, The Metropole, to include extension and refurbishment, the provision of a retail arcade, and a new adjoining hotel to be called the ‘M’, in a scheme likely to take three to five years to deliver.

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Producer Charles Steel revealed he had been waiting since 2007 for then 12-year-old Irish actress Saoirse Ronan to grow up to give her the starring role in an adaptation of Meg Rosoff’s novel How I Live Now.

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A PLAN calling for soaring “gardens in the sky” and a submerged memorial was unveiled yesterday for the World Trade Center site, but wrangling between leaseholders, politicians and September 11 victims’ relatives will ultimately decide what fills the space.

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