Bookings to be honoured at bust hotel

Breakfast will be served and beds made as usual this weekend for residents booked into a Dublin hotel which has gone bust but which will continue to trade under the aegis of the insolvent company’s landlord.

Barrister Rossa Fanning gave Ms Justice Marie Baker in the High Court an undertaking that any pre-paid bookings at the Dublin Citi Hotel and Trinity Bar and night club in Dame St will be honoured and business continue as usual.

Mr Fanning, who appeared with Galway solicitors McSweeney & Co for the landlord, said that, while the court’s refusal to confirm the appointment of an examiner to JJ Red Holdings Limited means automatic liquidation of the hotel company, the landlord Henciti Ltd plan to take over and run the hotel.