The 200-year-old hotel on Cork's South Mall is likely to be sold to Louis Fitzgerald
The Imperial Hotel in Cork has hosted illustrious guests from Daniel O'Connell to Frederick Douglass, and Michael Collins to Princess Grace of Monaco. File picture: Denis Minihane
Behind-the-scenes talks are at an advanced stage for the sale of Cork city’s oldest hotel, the ‘Grande Dame’ Imperial Hotel on South Mall, for as much as €25m, with its purchase linked to veteran Dublin hotel and bar owner Louis Fitzgerald.
Hospitality and property market sources say discussions have been ongoing between the hotel’s owners, the Flynn family, who bought the 200-year-old Imperial in 1998, and significantly upgraded it, and Louis Fitzgerald.
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