Government grants €150k for feasibility study on buying disused Roscrea hotel for community use

Funding branded 'stupid' and a 'waste of money' by Tipperary TD Alan Kelly

Protests at Racket Hall, Roscrea, in February.

The Government has made €150,000 available for a study into whether a disused Tipperary hotel should be bought as a community facility.

A commitment was made in principle in January around the purchase of the former Grants Hotel in Roscrea following protests around the conversion of the town's other hotel into accommodation for international protection applicants.