Sub-contractors picket new hotel

MORE than a dozen angry sub-contractors picketed a new upmarket hotel in Kerry to highlight the money they claim they are owed by the developers who built the premises.

Redcorn Developments, who held the main contract for the construction of the Watermarque Hotel in Cahirciveen, recently went into receivership and it is estimated that as many as 35 local sub-contractors are owed up to €750,000 from the project.

However, the operators of the hotel, who were leasing the property from Redcorn and are dealing with the receivers, say they have nothing to do with the owed money and that pickets are putting their business in jeopardy.