President ‘should use Killarney House as summer residence’

A STUNNING 18th-century mansion gifted to the state by a billionaire businessman should be converted into a summer residence for the President, it has been proposed.

Killarney House, a sprawling French-style chateau in the heart of the Kerry tourist town, was donated to the nation in 1998 by the family of Irish-American construction tycoon John McShain.

Now a hotelier has called for the house to be carefully restored and adapted to become the official summer residence for the President.