Foreign investors to have designs on boutique hotel

DUBLIN’S style-driven Morrison Hotel has been put on the market with international buyers expected, thanks to its profile and trading figures.

With the rooms and the look of the 140-bed boutique hotel dictated by designer John Rocha, the Morrison Hotel opened to acclaim in 1999.

Its business base crumbled last summer when Anglo Irish Bank pulled the plug, prompting an unsuccessful months-long legal struggle by owner Hugh O’Regan to save his flagship city centre hotel.