Public appeal as Metropole Hotel marks 120 years

One of Ireland’s great hotels has issued a public appeal for help to celebrate its 120th anniversary this summer.

The landmark Metropole Hotel in Cork, which was, until the mid 1950s, known as Ireland’s finest “dry hotel”, is now the spiritual home of the Cork Jazz Festival and is considering further expansion.

It has invited people to share their own special memories of the hotel over the decades.