Plans include the erection of a single storey, flat roofed external glazed function room that will extend off the hotel facade.

Deputy MacSharry believes the region will suffer from a lack of strategic planning on the inevitable adverse effects

The building has been examined and deemed safe.

The hotel won six awards in different categories.

The rate is set to rise again in Spring of next year.

Trade groups representing publicans, hoteliers and the tourism sector say they’ll lobby the government to retract its decision.

Contracts worth almost €100m were signed by various providers across the country.

The casualties from an imagined gas explosion at a hotel will be processed and triaged during the drill this morning