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The Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF) and Pembroke Hospitality have announced a new €50m fund targeted at the hospitality sector.

Pembroke Hospitality, which acts as an advisory firm in the sector and counts former Jurys Doyle Chief Executive Niall Geoghegan and ex-PwC Mark Lynch as co-founders, announced the launch of the Hotel Investment Fund (HIF). It is being established to invest in hotels whose trading has been negatively impacted by the Covid pandemic.

Speaking with the Sunday Independent, Pembroke’s Lynch said the launch of the €50m fund was "very exciting".

"It is coming at a good time, a lot of hotels have been badly impacted throughout Covid, some more than others. Thankfully business and trade are recovering pretty well. But there are still going to be legacy issues with balance sheets that are going to take a bit of time to fully repair."

A new Flogas Plant a Tree campaign will sponsor the planting of approximately 10,000 native tree saplings, one for every new or existing customer that signs up to its electricity and natural gas Green Future tariffs throughout 2022.

Flogas has partnered with Trees on the Land for the campaign, a charity and not-for-profit cross-border project that works to establish new native trees at sites in schools, sports clubs and colleges, farms, towns and community gardens on the island of Ireland.

John Rooney, Managing Director, Flogas Ireland visited one of the tree planting sites in Portlaoise to meet Brian Gaynor, who coordinates the community tree planting projects at Trees on the Land.

The Shannon Region Junior Chef of the Year 2022 takes place in the Limerick Strand Hotel on Tuesday 17th May 2022, where four Transition Year students from Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board schools across the region compete in a live culinary competition organised by the College of FET, Hospitality Campus.

Student finalists in this year’s competition are from Coláiste Íde agus Iosef Abbeyfeale, St Anne’s Community College Killaloe, Gaelcholáiste Luimnigh, and Mungret Community College.

Fifteen tourism companies from Ireland joined Tourism Ireland at the inaugural Discover Europe Travel Summit in Dubai.

Discover Europe Travel Summit was a two-day B2B tourism event organised by Tourism Ireland in conjunction with the German National Tourist Board, Switzerland Tourism and the Austrian National Tourist Office. The event brought together a delegation of 97 exhibitors from Ireland, Germany, Switzerland and Austria to meet, and do business with, more than 100 travel buyers from the GCC.

Aisling McDermott, Tourism Ireland’s Manager Asia and Middle East, said: