Top of class Maryborough to get top glass extension

Thanks to over-building, and over-supply, many Irish hotels continue to be lemons - but it’s orangeries all the way for the winner of the ‘AA Ireland Hotel of the Year’ accolade for 2014-2015.

Cork’s Maryborough Hotel & Spa, built 17 years ago around a period dwelling in suburban Douglas, has just started work on a €500,000 new Orangery, a bright, extensively glazed extension for functions overlooking its 300-year old wooded grounds.

Work started the same week as the Maryborough has just won the country's top AA Hotel award, the first Cork hotel in a decade to get this title.