Family-run hotel wins fourth AA star

A FAMILY-RUN hotel in south Tipperary has been awarded a prestigious fourth star by the AA’s international hotel judges.

Hotel Minella, which raised thousands of money for children’s charities when it opened a new section two years ago, was presented with the award at the Guinness Gravity Bar in Dublin.

The hotel was set up by the late Jack and Babs Nallen at an old country house on the edge of Clonmel, beside the river Suir, and is today run by managing director Elizabeth Nallen-Bowen and her brother, John Nallen.