Debs ball organiser may owe more than €300,000 to hotels

THE man at the centre of the debs ball garda inquiry may owe in excess of €300,000, and today marks the contract deadline for him to pay €80,000 to the Silver Springs Moran Hotel.

Whether he will honour that deadline or not remains to be seen, but Pat Power, the hotel’s co-owner, isn’t holding his breath because, he says, Pat Browne failed to honour the €24,920 deposit which he was due to pay on July 20 for the 19 debs balls booked there.

Mr Browne, a 30-year-old self-styled events organiser, has left the house he rented in Upper Glanmire, Co Cork — allegedly leaving rental debts of several thousand euro — and his whereabouts were unknown last night.