Skellig Star Hotel fined for not having licence to sell spirits

Customs officials visited premises in April 2019, before it became a direct provision centre, as soliticitor says in mitigation that hotel was 'a defunct, chequered, white elephant'

Customs officer found the Skellig Star Hotel 'did sell' intoxicating liquor, to wit spirits, without a licence. Picture: Valerie O’Sullivan

The Skellig Star Hotel in Caherciveen, Co Kerry, which was turned into a direct provision centre during the early part of the Covid-19 pandemic, has been fined for not having a licence to sell spirits when customs and excise officials visited the hotel premises in April 2019.

Summonses were issued in 2019 at the suit of the Revenue Commissioners against the company, Skellig Hotel Experience Ltd, of Wentworth Place, Wicklow Town, Co Wicklow, and against the licensee, Jude Kirk, of Slea Head Cottage, Glenfahan, Co Kerry.