New €30m hotel opens on Cork's Morrison's Quay with operators seeking second city location

The three-star 187-bedroom hotel on the former Moore’s Hotel site on Morrison’s Quay is part of a wider €45m development

The new Premier Inn hotel in Cork City Centre, has now opened.

Cork City is to get a second Premier Inn as part of an ongoing expansion of the UK’s largest hotel chain, which opened its first hotel in the city today.

Matt Ghent, development manager in Ireland for the Whitbread group, which owns the Premier Inn brand, said the company is actively looking at identifying a site for a second hotel in Cork City.