One of the country’s premier hotels, the five-star Sheen Falls Lodge in Kenmare, Co Kerry, is to be sold in a deal worth about €5m.

One of the country’s best-known hoteliers, Jerry O’Reilly, is confident that bankers to his five-star hotel, the Aghadoe Heights in Killarney, will continue to roll up bank interest loan payments on the business.

A second top Ring of Kerry hotel, Sheen Falls Lodge, has found international buyer interest in recent weeks