Bid for luxury lodgings ‘dead in the water’

AN BORD Pleanála has been heavily criticised for refusing planning permission for a €25 million five-star hotel in Kinsale.

The project's developers, who have been turned down four times, said yesterday they have no intention of trying again.

As a result the planned luxury hotel has been lost to Kinsale along with the possible creation of 100 jobs potentially millions of euros to the local economy.