Hotelier sad to leave business after 17 years

A well-known hotelier will this weekend leave the premises he has tried to rescue over the past two years.

Through a €4m investment, Pat Gill developed Darby O’Gill’s outside Killarney, Co Kerry, from a pub to a hotel over a period of 17 years.

However, it went into receivership in 2010 and was purchased at a fire sale auction in Dublin last month for €735,000 by Cavan-based investors Exsol Ltd.