Midleton hotel is reaching ‘four’ a star as investment continues

A €1m investment has boosted business at the Midleton Park Hotel in east Co Cork.

The long-established 79-bed hotel, the only one in the town which has a population of 12,000, was bought last year via Savills for over €3 million by Wexford-based Talbot Hotel Group, who then bought the Oriel House Hotel in Ballincollig,Cork, for €8m.

Since the MPH purchase, wedding business has gone up to 50 events a year, and climbing, and the former three-star hotel is moving to four-star status this year under young new GM Patrick Shields.