'Business as usual' at Tipperary hotel under provisional liquidation

The group that has been appointed as a provisional liquidator to a Co Tipperary hotel with 75 weddings on the books, including one tomorrow, has said it is "business as usual" at the hotel.

PREM Group has been appointed to manage the Ballykisteen Hotel and Golf Resort, Limerick Junction, Co Tipperary, which has been placed into provisional liquidation.

Jim Murphy, Managing Director, PREM Group said: “It is business as usual at Ballykisteen Hotel and Golf Resort. We look forward to working with the staff here and to continuing to provide a professional and friendly service at one of Tipperary’s leading hotel and conference venues.”

The High Court has heard the four star hotel has been operating without liquor and dance licenses.

Provisional liquidator Jim Hamilton will be taking over the immediate running of the hotel.

His job will be to temporarily protect the assets of the company but his first priority will be to renew lapsed dance and liquor licences ahead of tomorrow's wedding party .

That is the first of 75 weddings currently on the books and the court was told that just one cancellation would result in a haemorrhage of business.

Ulster Bank made the move against the insolvent hotel because it is €290,000 overdrawn.

Ballykisteen is a four star operation with 36 bedrooms and 45 self catering lodges.

It employs around 80 people.