Council to make derelict Mallow hotel safe

A TOWN council in County Cork has been granted a court order to allow it make safe a derelict hotel which has been the subject of two arson attacks.

Mallow District Court granted the order to the local town council to enable it carry out the work at Mallow Park Hotel, which has lain unoccupied since 2007.

The hotel, which is on the town’s main street, was damaged by arsonists last January and again six months later.